Wholesale Savings At Crane Gear
Wholesale Savings at Crane Gear can be had when buying in volume. Let’s be frank, it costs quite a bit to ship from Germany to the US when we are doing it by the pallet size. It’s not cheap within the US either with today’s trucking costs. This can all be managed. The solution is volume.
Volume Shipments Deliver Massive Savings
When you ship a single pallet of goods from Europe to the US, It’s a $1500 problem. If you are sending a pallet in the US by truck right now (2026), it’s $250 for 500 miles. Or $600 for cross country. If you ship a container from the EU to the US, a 40’ container would be closer to $5000. But that’s for 48 pallet spaces. The way to manage the shipping cost is via volume. Instead of paying $72,000 for a container’s worth of shipping one item at a time, if you can plan ahead, we can save $66,000 in shipping costs. You just have to plan ahead. If you are a sizeable contractor or retailer, this savings can often double your equipment budget. We can help you stop this slow burning of the budget. Let’s delve into this further.
When you look at our prices, you’ll find a Delivered price and an Ex Works price point. This is to be open about what the cost is of just the product. Delivered means that we move it door to door, and the cost is baked into the price as an “ala carte” or individual item sale. If we are selling items as “Ex Works” or “FOB”, then we can either have you pick it up, or if it’s multiple items, we can arrange the shipping at a quoted cost. Let’s see how this works.
2 yard concrete buckets lined up and ready to go with fork pockets
A 2 yard Concrete Bucket Model 1091 with a chute can sell for $3200 Ex Works. We recently sold a container of them to a company for $4900 per unite with the tariff included as a delivered product. If you buy them one at a time and I need to ship them, our price is $6450 per unit. It’s $2550 as an added cost. This can feel off putting to a buyer. The comparable is that everyone else is asking for $9000 per bucket. But in reality, we can deliver nearly 2:1 for that price point. These are the Wholesale Savings Crane Gear delivers.
Stacking Your Savings with CraneGear
Stacking Your Savings with CraneGear is a literal sentiment. We do it ourselves. Our Crane Skip Pans nest inside each other to save room. When this is done in volume shipment, the weight is a small amount of the cost to move the container. It’s really governed by the space or volume. So when you look at a skip pan cost for 2.6 yards, which is pretty common for a four lifting eye skip pan, they are $6200 to $11,000 Our 2.6 yard skip pan with an automated latch are $3050 for a fancy version, plus shipping. But these nest. so you can get 3 of them stacked. You add nearly no cost in shipping on units 2 and 3. If you compare this to a 2.6 yard version at $11,000, you’ll pay nearly 1/3 of the price for our option. And if you have small items to ship too like crane forks that we can break down into smaller items, you can get them for essentially free shipping as well.
Example of crane skip pans stacked for shipping.
Plan Ahead and Halve Your Attachments Cost with CraneGear
Planning ahead can help you halve your attachments budget annually when buying in volume with CraneGear. If you are the sort of company that can look ahead, you can see what projects you have starting, and what your normal annual consumption is on products. Then you can order early in the year and have stock on hand for when the demand hits. You end up erasing your headaches that demand your time. If you are a top 400 contractor that buys ten sets of crane forks a year and 6 skip pans and 4 concrete buckets, we can get an order together that might take that spend down to half of what it normally costs. And maybe you have a couple of spares on the shelf so when one gets broken, you are no longer scrambling and paying high prices or renting to cover the gap in equipment. And if you are doing this at half of the cost, it opens up the opportunity to replace equipment that might otherwise use up repair budget and more importantly, time.
When you are ordering this way too, some of the items like Crane Forks can be broken down and assembled as well so they don’t take up much space in the shipping. And suddenly crane forks that can cost $4000 with shipping from most places are $1425. We’ll take your prices back to the 90’s if you can just plan ahead. If you wanted, we could even crate them up so you have them as compact as possible until you need them assembled. The crate is under $100 and now it’s ready to ship cheaply too.
Stop Paying the Storage and Shipping Premium
Companies pay a premium for dealers to store and ship equipment they want to buy. If you plan ahead, you can skip the premium. People think of a carrying cost, but these total smaller numbers on an annual budget. A whole container might cost 60 to 70k. If you just get in sync to be ahead of the demand, you can pay 50% versus what you are paying today. That new job starting in four months, you need to think about what you need for it today. I get calls just about every day from someone looking for a one off item in two weeks. The only way that happens is if we speculatively stock it for that once ever two year sale, or you pay a massive premium to a company that produces it instantly. Take a five yard laydown concrete bucket as an example. You’ll find them online for $40,000. We’ll build and sell you one for $18,200. Same quality of bucket. You just have to plan ahead.
CraneGear Delivers Savings
CraneGear has a massive opportunity for large contractors to save on their equipment spend. Even with shipping items individually and paying a 25% tariff, we still beat local suppliers. If you look to buy as a volume buyer, we’ll deliver 1990 prices. You’ll have less headaches with immediate needs because you’ll have what you need in stock. They broke the handle on the gate of the concrete bucket, either have a spare that bolts right in from us, or have a whole spare bucket ready to go so you can repair it on a schedule instead of in an emergency.
Let’s make your job easier. More durable equipment. ASME B30.20 certified so it’s compliant in every state and province. One order instead of 30. One shipment instead of 30. Stock on the shelf at 50% of the cost. Order the same gear and have interchangeable parts. Piecemealing equipment makes it expensive. We can change the dynamic at CraneGear. We have large catalogs. Let’s put our advantages to good use to make your life easier.
