Be Cool! Join the Boston Burningtruck Tribe!
Welcome to the 2009 Boston Burningtruck project! Our mission is simple - to provide round trip transportation for artwork, projects, bikes, and supplies from Boston to Black Rock City! This is a community driven, not for profit project, where our goal is to get your stuff to the playa and back on time and in one piece, and break even.
2009 Boston Village???
Will The Hive exist this year? I don't know, but if it does, the Boston Container Camp will reside there. Information and dialog about this village can be found in the Boston Village planning mailing list. Please do not contact us regarding village details.
New for 2009
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Volunteers
This year all of you are volunteers! Plan on arriving early on loading and unloading days and making a day of it! Furthermore, please take loading and unloading into account when making your travel arrangements. See my full rant in the fabulous container guide.
Share Types
Full Share ($xxx) A Full Share entitles you to 100 cubic feet of space. Buy a bunch and ship what you want as long as it is packed as described in the container guide.
Bicycle Share ($xxx) A Bicycle Share entitles you to ship one bicycle in the container. Your packed bike must not occupy more than 20 cubic feet and must be packed as described in the container guide. This is strictly for a bike.
Bicycle and One Box ($xxx) Bicycle and One Box entitles you to ship one bicycle(20 cubic feet) and one box no larger than 12 cubic feet. Both the Bike and Box must be packed as described in the container guide. This is strictly for a bike and one small box.
Payment must be received within 1 week. Reservations will automatically be dropped so others who might pay on time can have a chance to sign up.
Finances and Fuel
Just to be clear, we don't make any profit off of this. Shipping by rail is expensive when you are not moving 1000's of containers. On top of shipping costs, there is an additional 46% fuel surcharge(as of 7/1) added onto our inter-modal base rate. See the CSX web page for information on past, present, and predicted rates. Note that the over the road(truck) fuel surcharge is nearly double this.
Here are the historical fuel surcharges:
| 2003 | 4% |
| 2004 | 7% |
| 2005 | 15.5% |
| 2006 | 22% |
| 2007 | 22.5% |
| 2008 | 46% |
2009 Schedule
| Container arrives at loading dock | Friday, August XXTh |
| Loading in Boston |
Saturday, August XXth(Shelf construction only) Sunday, August XXTh |
| Container pickup and rail transfer | Monday, August XXTh |
| Container in transit (~10 days) | Monday, August XXTh - Wednesday, August 20rd |
| Delivery to Black Rock City | Friday, August XXnd(tentative) |
| Burning Man | Monday, August XX - Monday, September 1 |
| Container loading on the Playa | Saturday,Sunday,Monday, XX |
| Pickup in Black Rock City | Tuesday, September XXTh |
| Container arrives in Boston | Saturday, September XXTh |
| Unloading in Boston | Saturday, September XXTh(Unload, Clean-out and shelf storage) After party TBA |