uShip

I used the service because of the 'shipping wars' show. While my load got to its destination, and in good condition, uShip Never paid the carrier FASTFRATE. They are now putting the file in collection. I have proof of payment. All of this was from two years ago, and they are still trying to collect for a fully paid invoice. Fortunately uShip could not even spell my name correctly so it did not land in my credit history.

Do not use these scammers, and just pay the carrier directly. Like other online services, they take a third of the money, and make shipping attractive and money loosing for the poor truckers.

Heiner Philipp

Be careful of shipping scams through UShip!

My shipment was stolen by the carrier and UShip provided no effective assistance. After filing police reports, retracing phony stories, and dealing with the fact that my treasured items were most likely at a pawn shop and I would receive no reimbursement, my only recourse is to warn others.

My shipping provider was a criminal and UShip takes no responsibility for scams like this operating under their umbrella. In fact, UShip blocked me so I can't even communicate with them. It has been a sickening experience.

My advice is to use a different company and do your research on the movers before booking. UShip will happily hang you out to dry.

I had an Xmas tree to have transported from Fl to Ga. I posted a shipment and received a bid and accepted it. Uship charged me a $24.99 fee. They never disclosed that the transporter also had to pay a similar fee. When a problem occurred they began a negotiation CHAIN between the shipper and transporter. While they were very happy to facilitate these discussions they never participated in reducing their fees. Their fees actually amount to 30-40% of the fees paid by the shipper, but they provide little value beyond the IT web site infrastructure.

I would never use their services for future moves, besides their outrageous fees, the vetting of the transporters falls woefully short of reasonable standards.

I wanted to see how much a *potential* move would cost, so I used uShip to receive some quotes. Big mistake. It's been more than a week and my phone has been ringing almost every day since then with multiple callers trying to get my business, many calling repeatedly. Then there are the emails. Lots and lots and lots of emails. Do yourself a favor: if you want a shipping quote, contact a few companies directly. UShip seems like a good idea but the unwanted inundation from dozens of responses is ridiculous. If uShip wanted to provide a valuable service, they'd show you all the price quotes online on their site, like some auto insurance companies do to help you shop. What they do now is essentially trick you into supplying your contact info to be hounded for weeks afterward by third parties. Stay away!

The shipper we hired committed to being ready to go but they lied. They were weeks delayed! They kept giving us excuse after excuse. We PAID and had to deal with excuse after excuse. This was a huge issue because our delivery was weather dependent and we had 9 inches of snow when our antique vehicle arrived. This posed an entirely new issue of dealing with icy roads. When we called UShip, they had nothing to say in defense that their third party company, Tempus Logix, was in breach of contract. We will NEVER use UShip again and people should know what a terrible company they are -- they take your money but then do not stand by their third party shippers.

I tried a few times to use UShip. They first give your a range of what to expect for potential shipment costs; High, Medium & Low. The estimates never came close to the the low or medium and always ended up on the highest end.
After putting your shipping emails in you start to get bids and a bunch of aggressive response asking questions and urging you to book with them. All the estimates are the generally the same and when you want to book a service charge is added ON TOP of the shipping fee, not cool and it should be calculated in so you get a real estimate. Anyway, its an imperfect process but I suppose if you luck out and find a somewhat normal shipping entity with a reasonable price then its worth it. Otherwise try to avoid this process as Ive been reading also that your cargo gets beaten up pretty bad in the process.

Ive buy Harleys from all over America and Ive used uship to get them to Los Angeles. Theyve picked up bikes for me from Seattle, New York, Flordia, texas etc etc and uship always delivered ontime with no problems. A bike dealer actually recomended uship to me. Im based in New Zealand and using uship theres never been any stress, no worries and no damage. 5 years plus, Thanks for the Excellent service Uship, always on time if not earlier!

I signed up on UShip to ship an 80-lb crate from springfield, Mo, to Albuquerque. The crate was stoutly built and the contents pretty much unbreakable. The route was a straight shot down I-44 and out I-40. There was no indication before I began messaging the driver, and there was no indication before he and I agreed on a price, that UShip was going to charge me an additional 30% for their service. UShip is a rip-off. AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS.

Uship allows ANYONE to become a transporter and if things go bad (which they usually do), uship states they are not part of that issue and pretty much to go pound sand. The amount of negative reviews is flabbergasting.

Their percentage is now 20% to transporter and roughly 20% to shipper, so in essence you are paying about 40% in fees using uship to post a load and get a phone number.

We ended up moving our shipping to www.motherload.app instead. They do not allow illegal transporters or brokers to bid on shipments.

I've been a carrier on Uship for almost 5 years. The people are corporate office are terrible. Heather Hoover in particular is the worst. I would highly recommend not using this company period. They charge us carriers a 20% fee which is outrageous. But thats not enough, they also then charge the customer or shipper a fee as well. I've addressed several issues to management there and its worse than talking to a wall. They claim to have "experts" in the business working there. There are no experts. Its a bunch of kids working seasonal jobs who dont understand the transport business whatsoever.

I havent met one smart person the entire time I've used their site. They've been smug jerks on many occasions. Majority of carriers on there are not properly licensed for this type of work either. A lot of quick fly by night guys that Uship doesnt verify much at all. So dont use these people. They are terrible and don't know the first thing about transporting.

Uship will find some good rates for LTL shipments, but buyer beware! We had several shipments damaged during transit and received no assistance from Uship at all. Since the shipment was contracted between Uship and the carrier (IE UPS, FEDEX, YRC, etc), the carriers will not deal with you for damage claims. Uship washes their hands of any damage by telling you to deal with the carrier. After getting screwed on a half a dozen shipments causing me many thousands of dollars in losses, I have moved on and will never use Uship again. Again, they find some good rates, but you are left holding the bag when something gets damaged.

Everyone that quotes me was a scammer using someone else's company name or the name of a dissolved business. Once you've selected a quote, yahoo adds 10% to you and to them. There are no checks, no assurances and scammers with tons of negative reviews revealing they aren't a real company yet the site isn't taking them off the site.

Additionally, the app and website are poor to navigate, you are not permitted to have a proper conversation of any kind with the shipper before you hand over hundreds of pounds and you wonder if the website is screwing you as much as the scammers. Avoid at all cost. Got a cheaper quote in the end from a legitimate local haulage company with amazing credentials and no commission!