This is my understanding of freight costs
John Pullis
Presque Isle County Extension
151 East Huron Avenue, PO Box 110
Rogers City, Michigan
49779-0110
United States
989/734-2168
989/734-4116
John,
I would like to ask if I can speak with you about getting a thorough understanding of freight costs for turkey or if you can direct me to somebody to speak about freight costs in the turkey industry.
What I am looking at is:
Estimated Freight cost
Local: 1 - 2 cents per pound
(A short run or no run to a processor or location)
Detroit to Kalamazoo: 3 cents per pound
(140 miles)
No data 140 miles to 730 miles
Detroit to Omaha: 8 cents per pound
(730 miles)
Detroit to Florida: 10 cents per pound
(1,150 miles)
Detroit to Maine: can be estimated as is 900 miles
No data 1,150 to 2,263 miles
Detroit to Seattle: No data
( 2,263 miles)
Detroit to San Diego: No data
( 2,275 miles)
Maybe you can see what I going for here, get some standard distances so I can approximate the rest of the distances freight costs.
I would like to find out what the price points, cents per pound would be between Kalamazoo and Omaha or from 140 miles to 730 miles and between Florida and Seatle/San Diego or 1,150 miles to 2,260 miles from Detroit.
Richmond, Virginia to San Francisco California
(2,435 miles)
Augusta, Maine to San Diego California: No data
(2,644 miles)
Seatle, Washington to Miami, Florida: No data
(2,732 miles)
The whole country from the atlantic to pacific I was told 15 cents per pound but this particular price per pound I think assumes inclusive beginning location at an interior location in the united states to a final location at the other ocean so I think this is really a price for 3/4 of the country shipping or 75% of the country shipping.
75% of 2,435 miles is 1,826 miles.
So 15 cents per pound ( 1,826 miles)
I would like to ask if this would be for 3/4 or to ship 100% from the atlantic to pacific.
I don't have the contract fulfilled, I am looking to get an estimate of freight costs before contracting so I don't have a set location to ship from, also I want to have a thorough understanding of freight costs in the contiguous united states.
All the estimates I have are for cattle and I am looking for turkey freight costs.
I would like to know how applicable the cattle estimates are to turkey and how they differ.
Could I speak with you about this or direct me to somebody to speak with about freight costs so I can get a thorough understanding of freight costs in the turkey industry. I will follow up later Monday morining, March 15th to see if I can speak with you about this or direct me to somebody to speak with about freight costs in the turkey industry.
Thanky you!