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Can I put things in my hybrid?
The way it works is that trucking companies that only use giant, 10-car carriers aren’t licensed to ship household goods because there’s no place to put it! The difference, however, is the enclosed ship service that many companies offer. If you’re looking to ship some boxes along with your hybrid, companies that use enclosed trailers and trucks are licensed to do that. But don’t pack your hybrid full of boxes if it’s going onto a giant, open truck, because that’s illegal.
The gray area is the trunk. Most hybrid ship companies allow you to have up to 100 pounds in the trunk only. This means blankets, pillows, maybe some clothes...loose stuff. By putting miscellaneous junk in your trunk, so to speak, you’re not transporting “household goods” but rather just some “stuff” that happens to be in your trunk. This can change, however, if you decide you’d like your stereo to stay in the trunk, because this can be seen as household goods. So no electronics at all in the hybrid, and you can never have anything in the cab. Loose change and some candy wrappers are okay, but nothing big.
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Hybrid Shipper RateAn hybrid shipper rate is the rate given by any hybrid shipper company to ship a hybrid. Prices depend on several factors including the length of the route, the location of the route (what areas of the United States the route travels through) and the season of shipment. Typically, hybrid shipper rates go up during the summer months because they can pick and choose which shipments to pick up, so they take the most expensive ones; during the winter months, however, people do not ship as much so they take loads for less money.
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Why do people say, 'I could care less' when they really mean, 'I couldn't care less?'
Don't you *dare* learn a wrong lesson while I'm trying to teach you a right lesson!
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