Ship A Car Heavy Haul Blog - Page 4

A mobile crane is not one shipment. The carrier, the boom sections and the counterweights each travel separately, and the breakdown is the job.

Heavy equipment shipping into and out of Michigan: frost laws, MDOT permits, seasonal planning, and choosing the right trailer.

North Carolina asks two different questions of a heavy haul depending on which end of the state you are in. Establish which half your route lives in first.

A 48 foot flatbed has deck space for far more brick than it can legally carry, so the load plan is built around the scale house.

There is no single method, and picking the wrong one is the most expensive mistake in this category. Three measurements decide it.

Ohio is one of the few states where one trip can need two permits. The Turnpike is administered separately from the rest of the highway system.

The Port of Savannah at one end and metro Atlanta in the middle shape almost every Georgia heavy haul, and both affect timing more than they affect price.

How to ship heavy equipment for less: trailer selection, date flexibility, lane choice, consolidation, and when rail beats road.

HVAC equipment is light for its size and fragile in ways that do not show. Crating and handling matter more here than weight ever will.

An injection molding machine can arrive undamaged and still not run. The platens and tie bars are finely aligned, and bad rigging moves that without a mark.

How silos are transported: preparation and disassembly, crane loading onto specialized trailers, permitted oversize hauling, and safe reassembly at the destination.

How to ship a lathe machine safely: skid mounting, fluid draining, rigging, trailer choice for industrial vs. benchtop units, and what the move costs.

Fifth wheels are almost always towed, not carried, because their own height plus a deck exceeds the legal limit. Whether yours can be towed comes down to the tires.

How to ship machinery and machine parts: crating and skid mounting, choosing LTL vs. flatbed vs. RGN, preparation steps, and what drives the cost.