Shipping Terms
Amplify Your Home Responsibilities
- Building and packing your sauna in a crate
- Arranging for shipping to your home
Trucking Company Responsibilities
- Making an appointment to deliver your sauna
- Delivering your sauna to the end of your driveway or curbside
- The trucking company is NOT responsible for unloading the sauna
- The trucking company is NOT going to back their truck into your driveway
- Most times the trucking company will deliver with an 18 wheel truck
- Will this size truck fit on your road or neighborhood?
- If the sauna crate is less than 92” (7 feet), the trucking company may have a lift gate on the back of the truck which can be used to assist getting the sauna off the truck.
- If the sauna crate is more than 92”, there will not be a lift gate to unload the sauna crate and the customer needs to decide how they are going to get the crate off the truck.
Customer Responsibilities
- Returning phone calls to the trucking company in a timely manner, to arrange delivery
- Determining how the sauna is going to be unloaded from the truck
- Crates will vary from 6 feet long to 14 feet long
- The crate’s weight will vary from 800 pounds to 1600 pounds, depending on the size of the sauna
- Customer is responsible for unloading the sauna crate from the truck
- Suggested methods for unloading the truck
- Use a forklift or other mechanical piece of equipment
- When using a fork lift to pick up the crates, they must be picked up from the end of the crate and fork lift extensions are
- Renting a tilt tow truck to pick up the sauna from the local terminal and have it delivered to your home
- Have a crew of helpers able to either take the sauna off the truck or unload the crate while on the truck until the crate can be lifted off the truck
- If the crate arrives damaged, you can accept the shipment, however, please take pictures of the damage, and note the damage on the shipper’s Bill of Lading (BOL). Immediately, contact us, so we can contact the shipper and the manufacturer.
- Mark the Bill of Lading (BOL) with “(Crate arrived open/damaged- Possible Hidden Damage.”
Delivery, Unloading and Change of Address Policy
Unloading Crates
Per Dundalk’s shipping terms, the customer is responsible for getting the crate off the delivery truck.
If the crate is 92” or shorter, it will fit on a liftgate, and the customer and the truck driver can lower the crate to the ground.
If the crate is longer than 92” a liftgate will not be available to assist in lowering the crate to the ground.
Therefore, the customer will need to do one of the following options:
- Arrange for a crew of people to help unload the crate by hand
- Arrange for a piece of equipment to be available to unload the crate
- Use a trailer and pick up the crate at the delivery terminal
- Rent a tilt tow truck and pick up the crate at the delivery terminal
If the customer cannot do any of the above and they want Dundalk to arrange for a tilt tow truck, we will provide this service for a cost. The cost will be $500 and we will bill you for the charge.
Change of Ship to Address
If the customer changes the ship to address prior to their order leaving the factory, we will change the address free of charge. However, if the customer changes the ship to address after their order leaves the factory there will be a charge for this service and we will bill you for the amount.
Storage Charges
After a sauna has shipped and arrived at the local delivery terminal, if the customer does not respond quickly to calls to arrange a delivery appointment, needs to determine how to unload the crate, needs to provide an alternate phone number or any other reason which creates a delay to the delivery of the sauna and the trucking company starts to charge storage fees, these storage fees will be billed to you as well.
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