Dave wrote:
I am looking into a purchase and there is an ultralight for sale in Winnepeg
that interests me greatly. I am 1600 miles away in Halifax and getting it
here at reasonable cost is an issue.

About 4 months ago, I did a similar thing... bought a microlight project
at Auckland (about 6 hours drive away), and needed to get it back here.
One-way truck rentals were *hugely* expensive... it was cheaper to hire
a truck here and drive it there and back than to hire it one-way. Hiring
a trailer and driving up was going to be difficult and expensive too. I
found the cheapest way was to get it back-hauled by a furniture-moving
business. Here in NZ, there's a web site where you can register stuff
you want moved, and trucking companies can then match it up with other
moves that they have organised. I bought a roll of bubblewrap on the Net
and got it shipped to the vendor's house. He wrapped everything and
helped load it onto the truck. This worked out perfectly.

The economics may work out differently for you -- maybe hiring trailers
or trucks might be cheaper there, and my plane was a project -- already
disassembled.

Frank