Summer and pre-season sales
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I’d buy coal right now, but I’m not sure if summer pricing is better than pre-season.
When do you guys typically buy?
When do you guys typically buy?
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Summer is better...
Depends how much you buy...
Pallet or TT...
Depends how much you buy...
Pallet or TT...
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You have a ballpark of what a TT costs?CapeCoaler wrote: ↑Mon. May. 04, 2020 2:31 amSummer is better...
Depends how much you buy...
Pallet or TT...
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I'll pm you.
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Is it a fau paux to tell pricing? Just curious as my supplier asked if I wanted a tt load, and at the time I said no. But now I'm wondering how reasonable that price may be. But as a guess of around $170 a ton plus trucking (which I have seen in last 2 years), that is still 4,000 plus trucking. And whats that $400 on low end. And how do you pay? CC to the driver?
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Not really...
Anybody can call and get a price for a TT load...
If you have a history with a breaker and driver you may get a better price on both...
If you do 100 tons vs 1000 tons you may get a better price...
Time of year plays into it...
Summer pricing saves some, usually $10-20/ton...
The coal tends to be nicer because they are not so rushed or have a line at the breaker...
Size of coal can play into the pricing also, Buck vs rice/pea vs nut...
Different breaker will have different pricing but they are usually within $10-30/ton...
White/pink/red ash pick a breaker that has what you want...
TT load is usually 23-24ish tons...
Trucking $2-3/ loaded mile...
Do they have a back haul/girlfriend...
To The Cape is about 400 miles one way...
$800-1200 for trucking...
$3400-3800 for the coal...
$175-210/ton delivered...
Payment depends on breaker...
The total depends on the scale so...
Sometimes the trucker gives you the weigh masters ticket and you mail a check...
Sometimes you get an invoice and terms...
Sometimes you pay the trucker the whole thing and he pays the breaker...
CC cost the merchant a % to use and customers can do charge backs so most avoid CC...
Anybody can call and get a price for a TT load...
If you have a history with a breaker and driver you may get a better price on both...
If you do 100 tons vs 1000 tons you may get a better price...
Time of year plays into it...
Summer pricing saves some, usually $10-20/ton...
The coal tends to be nicer because they are not so rushed or have a line at the breaker...
Size of coal can play into the pricing also, Buck vs rice/pea vs nut...
Different breaker will have different pricing but they are usually within $10-30/ton...
White/pink/red ash pick a breaker that has what you want...
TT load is usually 23-24ish tons...
Trucking $2-3/ loaded mile...
Do they have a back haul/girlfriend...
To The Cape is about 400 miles one way...
$800-1200 for trucking...
$3400-3800 for the coal...
$175-210/ton delivered...
Payment depends on breaker...
The total depends on the scale so...
Sometimes the trucker gives you the weigh masters ticket and you mail a check...
Sometimes you get an invoice and terms...
Sometimes you pay the trucker the whole thing and he pays the breaker...
CC cost the merchant a % to use and customers can do charge backs so most avoid CC...
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Good info! Thanks. I didn't realize that there were options for payment. Now I'm rethinking the whole tt load.
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W, depends on the breaker & the trucker--don't get to excited YET!!!
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Yep, it really depends on who ya know and for how long...
Friends dad was dealing with the breakers and drivers from back in the day...
So 50 years of doing business...
Friends dad was dealing with the breakers and drivers from back in the day...
So 50 years of doing business...
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Just picked up a ton of Blashak nut at Hitzer. Going back for one more ton. Picked up a vented ash pan door for try 354 as well.
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I call and placed my order for a tri-axle load for Lehigh with Matt. $160 a ton and $11 a ton trucking. I am only about an hour from the breaker so I am sure that helps with the trucking. Now I need to finish installing my boiler.
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Hey Ziggy, Could I ask what your triaxle load load from Lehigh was for weight? Did you arrange through Lehigh for the whole deal or get the trucker on you own? I realize that Summer prices probably just expired. Halifax is likely further from their breaker than I am. Thanks.