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Insured carriers ★ Local and long-distance transport ★ Flatbed, step deck, lowboy, and RGN trailers ★ Rental yard, dealer, auction, and jobsite coordination
Heavy Equipment Shipper moves telescopic straight booms, articulating knuckle booms, towable lifts, narrow electric machines for indoor work, and the big four-wheel-drive rough-terrain units. Rental branches, contractors, dealers, auction buyers, and folks who own exactly one lift all end up calling us.
The make and model get us started. After that, the stowed length, the weight, and whether the machine still runs are the details that help us hatch a plan.
Send along a few photos while you’re thinking about it, and get one from the side with the boom laid down if you can. We’ll come back with a straight quote and a plan built around your lift instead of a vague equipment category.
Width is rarely what we have to fight on these. On the interstate network, 102 inches is the number every state has to work from, and most self-propelled booms sit far enough under it that width never becomes the conversation.
Height is the sneakier one. There’s no federal height number at all, which surprises people.
Each state writes its own. Between the stowed height and the deck you set the machine on, that’s usually where a permit does or doesn’t enter the picture.
Decks we put boom lifts on:
Before your lift goes anywhere, our driver brings the boom all the way down into its rest and secures it, drops the turntable rotation lock pin, and sets the platform where it belongs.
Federal securement rules are blunt about the boom itself: accessory equipment comes completely down and gets secured to the machine before anything rolls. The turntable lock isn’t in the rulebook, though. That one lives in your operator’s manual, and our drivers go by whatever yours calls for.
Technicalities aside, all you need to worry about is getting us the stowed length and the height. We’ll come back with a trailer recommendation and a number.
*Prices will vary on the size of the vessel, the driver’s preference, and the cost of diesel gas. For an accurate quote, call us today.*
*Prices will vary on the size of the vessel, the driver’s preference, and the cost of diesel gas. For an accurate quote, call us today.*
Send the make, model, stowed length, stowed height, operating weight, running condition, both locations, and the dates you’re working with. Photos help more than you’d think, since they tend to answer three questions before we’ve asked the first one.
If it’s a towable unit and the trip is short, plenty of owners hook up and go. Self-propelled machines are a different story, since they aren’t built for road speeds, and you’d be running hours onto the meter for nothing. Over any real distance, the trailer wins on both counts.
Most self-propelled booms end up on a step deck because dropping the deck height is the easiest clearance anybody can buy. Towables and lighter machines travel fine on a flatbed, and the tall units want a lowboy under them. Hand us your numbers, and we’ll pick the rig that actually suits the lift.
Measure it the way it’ll sit on the trailer: boom fully lowered, length taken from the back of the counterweight to whatever sticks out furthest up front. That last part catches people, because the platform often reaches past the chassis, and it counts.
Sometimes, and it’s usually the length or the height that triggers it rather than the width. If your load needs one, filing it and routing around the restrictions falls to us, and we’d tell you days out rather than the morning of.
You bet! As long as it still rolls and steers, a winch usually handles it without much drama. Just flag it when you call, because a dead machine often has a parking brake that stays locked until somebody works the manual release, and that’s not something a driver wants to discover in the dark.
It does, and it isn’t optional. Federal rules put accessory equipment all the way down and secured to the machine before a load travels, and a boom is accessory equipment. Our driver handles the stow position and the turntable lock, so if you’re not certain how yours goes, leave it be.
Constantly, and rental branches are a good chunk of the lift work we do. We’ll want the yard’s hours, the release paperwork, and a name to ask for, since those places move a lot of iron and a driver showing up unannounced tends to wait.
Not much to it. Pull the loose items out of the platform, take a quick look underneath for leaks, and let us know where the keys will be. If there’s a fuel or battery situation we should know about, mention that too and we’ll plan around it.
It sure is. We won’t hand a machine to a carrier until we’ve seen their cargo coverage, and our driver shoots photos before the lift goes on the deck and again once it’s off. Nothing left to argue about that way.
