Hauling a Versa-Lift 40/60 in Ohio

Can you just talk to someone knowledgeable at the rigging company ?

or are they enemies ?

 

Not the nicest things to load.

 

One thing to pay attention to if your going the rgn route is the transition from deck to ground. The hooks on this fontaine can be a sob. I've had to use cribbing many times to get over them with narrow wheelbase stuff.

 

And make sure the steers end up on a cross-member?

 

Most states will allow you to haul a Versalift “dressed”, but as soon as you take those couterweights off and place them on the deck you have just created a overweight divisible load.

 

TN has a section in the law that says you can move a piece of equipment “equipped to do its intended task”. This means you can move a Versalift with counterweights on, but if you take them off and place them on the deck it is considered a divisible load. Same with the boom, you can haul it with the boom attached, but as soon as you take it off and put it in the stand it is a divisible load.
We have a 60/80 Versalift (around 84k dressed) and we move it with a 4 axle truck and a 3 axle 55 ton Talbert RGN.
Everybody makes good points. If you go the RGN route make sure you can clear the hooks, and make sure you have narrow crossmembers on whatever trailer you buy. That lift will likely fall though the floor on a trailer with standard crossmembers. Landolls are made for this and have crossmembers on 8” spacing.