You should call the Forward Air terminal that you plan on taking the bike to. Sometimes the requirements are slightly different.
You will have to crate the bike yourself. I had a bike shipped to me from New Hampshire. The guy bought a crate from a Suzuki dealer, crated my Bultaco, and drove two hours to Boston. The Boston terminal told him that the sides of the crate had to be wood, not cardboard. He had to drive back to NH, install wafer wood sides, and then take it back to Boston. A phone call would have saved him a lot of driving.
He was pissed at me. :eek:
So give them a call. Forward Air is by far the cheapest way to ship a bike. Maybe not the fastest or the easiest.