getting into heavy hauling

No way, not even close

 

You need to go with Brewton Express, out of Alexandria, Louisiana. They will train you, and you should even be able to get by the house.

 

most heavy hauls are paid percentage, witch if ur with a good company, you wont care about miles.
3000 miles over the road @.39 =$1170.00 if you have the right co.
oversize/heavy haul with a good co. can pay that in 4 days only doing 1/2 the miles

 

If you gotta be home every weekend then heavy haul is not going to be for you. Unless you can land a local gig with a day cab.

 

Living in BR check with Turner Const. You can start with them doing flatbed an work your way up. Also B&G Crane

 

My home is where the trucks parked. Had Wife, food, Xbox, all the goodies. When you haul heavy, you park it. Projected miles are on the plate, flats happen, ect, 8 times the work, but 10 times the fun!

 

All I can suggest is to get your name out at a local truck stop board as willing to learn and offer to go with someone for free just to get something on your resume. That's basically what i did when I started out. Then I purchased a tractor and went as a lease operator to a low-bed co for trailers and a dispatch. I have hauled heavy precast pieces for light rail train in town oversize chunks for the King Dome in Seattle excavators bulldozers and OD parts for cranes, and every load is a little different. Permits and all the rules of time and when you can travel have to be followed closely cause you can't haul wide in traffic even with a pilot car. There really is quite a lot to know with heavy haul much more than a container or trailer when you can close the doors and call it tarped. Cheers

 

I was hauling 14 ' wide chunks of precast to Seattle Wa. from Richmond B.C. without a pilot and before curfue started to the new King Dome drop the trailer hook into another chassis mostly for heavy cans. That used to pay about 1400 cdn to the truck, and that was only about 3 hundred miles. It can really vary quite a bit that is for sure. I looked on the bills and they were paying 75 bucks just to turn the rotators (Alberta turn signals) on. Cheers

 

No you won't run anywhere near the same miles in heavy haul that you can do with a legal load. Mostly this is because of curfews, especially in the winter when daylight hours are at a premium. However, you should get other pay to make up for that. Some companies pay an additional amount per mile for any OD load, some pay a flat bonus regardless of length of the haul. If you are on percentage the extra for an OD load should take care of itself.

As others had said the best route to get into heavy haul is to simply do open deck legal loads for a while with a company that also does OD stuff and let them know you are interested in doing OD. That way when they have some smaller OD loads they can break you in using that. My first OD load was a paver out of Chambersburg, PA that went to New Hampshire. It was 106" wide. My flags on the front and back were wider then the load. But, it introduced me to permits, and curfews, and how to setup all the flags and such. Best way to go is to start small, ask questions if you are unsure, and take it easy when you are under the load.