re: When using a trucking service for heavy equipment delivery, can you meet halfway?

If you're having trouble finding a business to unload at, pick a mower shop in your city of choice. Tell them you bought a used mower and are having it delivered to be inspected and checked out. Pick it up once done and hit the road.

You'll probably have to pay $200 for the inspection.

But in the end $1500 from Mass to Louisiana ain't bad. If you consider it's ~1700 miles, and a super duty diesel is getting 12mpg with a big trailer, and diesel is $4.5/gal, you have ~$600 in fuel costs alone one way. That assumes the guy can find another load in this area and backhaul.