Here's a helpful little briefing for you in case you have to use a trucking company:
(In your OP I assume CA means California & not Canada, IN means Indiana & not India.)
In past years I had great experience shipping perhaps hundreds of large crates of surfboards via Crescent Truck Lines, tel 800-447-8284.
Another to try is GI Trucking, tel 800-437-4482. If neither of those is satisfactory, then see your local yellow pages.
If they don't traffic between the origin & delivery points you need, then ask them for referral to a freight company that does.
Before your initial call to them to request a price estimate, be ready to give the outside dimensions in inches of your boxes, and their contents, and weights. Boxes not fastened to a wooden pallet are called "LOOSE." A wood pallet would be silly for a paltry 200 lbs. I'd use really strong cardboard, or even build a little plywood box.
One of the factors freight tariffs depend on is the cubic feet (volume) of your shipment, so calculate that out for each box & total.
Another factor is something they call the "density" which is the actual weight in pounds divided by the cubic feet = pounds per cubic foot. E.G.: 200 lbs / 6.94 cu ft = 28.82 lbs per cu ft. They'll calculate that for you.
Another factor is the NMFC (National Motor Freight Classification) number(s) for the goods inside your boxes. They can look up the number(s), or if you want to, you can look up the NMFC numbers in advance & tell them the NMFC numbers (Google).
Call truck firm to schedule pick up appointment.
When trucker arrives, fill out the bill of lading form which he'll provide to you. Ask him how to look up tracking status on the web for your bill of lading #.
Next day after making your shipment, phone the trucking co & verify their weights (their weighing of your boxes might be a little different from your own results), the $ amount of freight charges, the transaction number assigned by the trucking company (different than the bill of lading #. If you didn't get it clear from the pickup driver about how to track your shipment on the web, then ask the office during this call.
Edit: 200 lbs is nothing. Just ship it air.
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