To make booking easy, our web order form divides items being shipped into large or small items.

Nomenclature

• Item: This is a sellable customer-facing unit such as a bed, table, or sofa. An item may have one or more handling units.
• Handling units: These are the individual boxes, crates, bundles or units of any kind that will be touched or handled by our team in transit. For example, a bed that ships in two boxes (one with headboard/footboard, the other with siderails/slats/hardware) will be one item (the bed) and two handling units (the two boxes). If for some reason both of those boxes are then enclosed in a single crate, this becomes one handling unit.
• Significant item: Significant items are our billing units. A significant item is either:
  • A single large item.
  • Up to six small items of a single type.

Small items

A small item is an item that can generally be carried by one person. Blue Truck defines small items as an item that does not exceed any of the following dimensions:

Small items may also only have one handling unit, regardless of aggregate dimensions.

When input correctly in our booking flow, up to six items of a single table (e.g. dining chairs, or nightstands) will be priced as a single large item. Only small items of a single type may be grouped together on a single line on the order page.

Large items

A large item is anything larger than a small item. A large item may be up to 127,008 cubic inches (the equivalent of 42in x 42in x 72in), after which it is classified as an oversize item.

The maximum weight for an item is 300lbs, after which we assume that a four man team will be required.

Oversize items

Oversize items are any item that is greater than 127,008 cubic inches in volume. An oversize item counts as two items (unless it is larger than 2x 127,008, in which case it counts as three items, etc). Volume is the total aggregate volume of all the pieces that are shipping in the item.

Order entry

Orders should be entered as follows:

For example: