Any heavy haulers?

[Sled Puller]

Need a 31,000 pound, 9'-8" wide, 10'-1" tall Dozer hauled from McCormick SC to Stoneboro PA, 716 miles.





Anyone?

 

[d6c]

I've crawled onto a lot of lowboys with all types of equipment (31k about the smallest) and I sure hope one of the "pickup boys" don't think they can do it!! Tilt trailer behind a dump truck can handle your weight, lowboy would be overkill. 716 miles is a long ways, good luck.

 

[HBarlow]

That's not a load for us amateurs with Ram duallies. It's a wide load that will require a CDL, permits, and perhaps even escorts and will certainly require a real truck and lowboy trailer.

 

[NIsaacs]

I think a full sized lowboy would be appropriate. That way you have room to haul the blade length wise behind the dozer tractor. When you haul over state lines, usually the DOT asks you if you can first make the load legal. By removing the blade you probably can. Of course I have no clue what the crawler tractor actually is, if this is even a possibility.



Nick

 

[E7mack96]

Loads under 10' wide will not need an escort. a permit for nc and sc will run about 30 each, wv about 50 and pa. . who knows. . PA is a pain in the arse. The permits are available online, by automated systems. but you will need a carrier that has a usdot# and insurance on file with the states. As for making the load legal, usually, if it takes more than 3-4 hrs work to do so, then you do not have to. Dozers and loaders always ship with the buckets or blades attached unless they get over 12' wide. at that point, the escorts cost makes it cheaper to remove and ship the buckets or blades separate.



A 2 axle rgn will haul that and be under 80K gross. a 3 axle can haul it too, and still be under.



A good rate on that move would be about 1700 to 1800 bucks inc. permits

 

[d6c]

E7... The carrier gets the permits in my experience and usually we flag our own stuff. The local lowboys (lots and lots of them, too) don't make smoke for less than double or so of your suggested good rate. We never break down anything unless we absolutely have to. 716 miles is not going to be cheap if it is done legally.

 

[E7mack96]

I ran a Heavy haul company for 10 years myself. The rate I spoke of was a good rate to him, not the hauler. If he calls ch robinson or landstar or the like, and they broker it to a truck as a backhaul, it wont be much more than that.



Ideally, as a hauler, i would quote it at about 2500-3000 bucks depending on if i had a truck close and another load near the drop.



We used to haul DOD loads that paid in excess of $10 bucks a mile. Good money at the time.

 

[E7mack96]

one of my rigs at the time...

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[d6c]

E7... I'm just a logger that is paying the lowboy guys to haul my stuff. Most any loggers flag their own stuff. Cats to 90k, shovels(log loaders) to 110k, yarders can get real heavy. My stuff is only 50k to 75k. . easy moves. 48k track skidder(cat 527) was about $10/loaded mile last move (45 miles or so)

 

[HBarlow]

E7mackC96,

That's an impressive rig.

 

[Sled Puller]

Thanks for the info guys, and no, I did not expect a Dually Ram to haul it.



It is quite possible, that maybe somebody with a Dually Ram, might ALSO have a semi and a lowboy, ya know!!!:-laf



I got a quote of 2300 with permits through a broker, would rather pay all the money to an owner op.

 

[TFucili]

I love those heavy-haul rigs. I went to a truck shop with a friend of mine who did cylinder head work for the shop, and there was a triaxle heavy hauler with double reduction axles, etc. The guy was hauling an enormous electrical transformer(I forgot the weight), but got a little frisky with the clutch and twisted a drive shaft into a piece of licorice. Pretty impressive

 

[RollOver_Pete]

Remove the dozer blade and set it on sideways. Then load the rest of the machine. At only 31,000 lbs, there may not be any need for a oversize permit.

 

[danniefedele23]

Me too E6mack96. I'm working on heavy company for almost 4 years. I ran heavy equipment for a couple of years off and on. I started when I was 24. Got a job at an equipment rental business refueling equipment for about an year. Then when I was 30 or so and laid off from my normal profession(Machinist), I started low at an excavating company then progressed to running track hoes and haul trucks for a summer.

 

[RollOver_Pete]

I moved this Cat 769C yesterday from Indio Ca. to Avondale Az.

 

[NIsaacs]

So do we call you RollOver_KW now:-laf Thats a serious load for a 3 axle truck, probably 100K plus GCW? I am just curious as to why the rock truck is not loaded farther back. I would guess the drive axles are overloaded and the trailer axles are under loaded. I am sure you have a reason, please explain to this pickup truck hauler Thanks



Nick

 

[mwilson]

Shipping weight for that machine is 68,000 lbs. thereabouts.



You would have been overweight for sure here in Maine, plus over axle on the drives. You must be at least 35,000lbs empty assuming the truck is double framed.



Maybe you can permit for that, most likely you did.



The rear axle of the lowbed itself appears to have 8 tires, like the old lowbeds that used to be up here. A real joy to change an inside tire on those.



Mike.