Who hauls the wind turbines?

ATS, Daily Express, JK Hackl, Wylie, Lonestar, Combined Transport, and a whole slew of smaller outfits participate in moving the wind energy projects.

Things are slow due to weather and economy. But T. Boone Pickens should have it moving shortly...

 

dailey express

 

They have been offloading them off ship up here at the St. Lawrence seaway(last fall), All ATS trucks or Independents

 

Someone mentioned special training to learn how to drive this stuff...
where can you go for that?
do the company's teach you?

 

get some platform experiance, then go to ATS or lonestar or one of the others...they will slowly progress you the the ranks to the bigger stuff

 

It is something you just do not jump into, I have hauled permitted loads for years and I still am not interested in hauling turbines, though the money is outstanding. An ATS driver dumped one in a town square a couple years ago, even though it was a trailer malfunction and not driver error they still were cracked down on very hard. Some of the places you have to deliver them have roads that were designed for nothing larger then a stationwagon and I do not need that stress in my life. But my hats off to those who haul them.

 

Broncrider
by a platform do you mean a step deck trailer?
never heard of a platform before except on an oil rig...

 

I think EW Wylie out of Fargo,ND also hauls wind turbines...

 

ATS bring alot through our town. Usually just the poles though. No sure about the blades. I can tell you its one he## of a load though.

 

Wow sorry about the spelling.