Specialized XL question

Construction Lowboy - XL Specialized Trailers

Good looking trailer, that should handle many types of work.
If you do decide to go for it, look into rental stores, small equipment dealerships that don't own their own truck, shops, loggers, that sort of stuff. Go to them in person, shake hands with the owner or manager. Let them know that if they need something not to large and heavy moved, they can call you, and leave them your business card. Lots of smaller companies like to meet people face to face still, and a firm handshake. We just hauled 5 skidsteers for a small Kubota dealer. We haul equipment to mines, loggers, construction sites, and for shops to and from. Around here a website or yellow pages ad mean nothing. Walking in their door with a smile on your face and a firm handshake, that means everything. Unless you live in a large city, then it seems different rules apply.
Best of luck to you.

 

All kinds of freight for that trailer.
But you better hurry,cuz Boris and the white volvo gang have been buying RGN's and hauling for peanuts

 

Great post.

This should be a sticky post, at the top of the forum forever.
Remember that some places need miscellaneous things moved as well. Could be fuel tanks, generators, buckets, tracks, tires, yarder boom sections, and anything else that you could possibly imagine. Don't be scared to ask them for instructions on best way to chain it down if you're not sure.
Lastly, take good notes on directions given. Turn off the hwy to head up into the bush, then you have 7 more turns to make, it can get confusing fast. But eventually you will find the skidder, dozer, or whatever. You won't be moving anything big with that trailer, so learn sizes and weights, so you know to say no to that buncher or processor right away. They are heavier than they look.
I find bunchers especially deceiving. A quick glance and I figure 70k lbs, then find it is actually 100k.

 

Lol.
My baby sister moves a lot of equipment, and took the wrong skidder to a shop several years ago.
We still tease her about that.

 

I'd look into getting an older hydraulic dove/flip tail or traveling axle trailer like a Traileze or Landoll. Lots of stuff can be moved on them. If you plan on doing it locally though be ready to fight tooth and nail for the business. It can literally get violent where I'm from. Call around and find out what the rates are like in your area too so you don't come in and stomp on them.

 

Here is my experience, from owning a RGN for my own construction equipment moving: There will be hardly anything worth hauling on the load boards, too cheap, too tall, some reason that the shipper’s regular specialized RGN carrier was not available. You might get some local work if you pursue it in person with the rental agencies or dealers. Also, you need high dollar cargo insurance to haul RGN freight, and if it involves port work you need TWIC.
You can’t use it for flatbed or step deck work because 29 feet is not 48 feet, and instead of weighing 30,000 empty you now weigh 42 or 44k.
My RGN is a necessary tool for my dozers and excavators and all that stuff, but the revenue it generates is small compared to the dump trailers and stepdecks.

 

Same thing here too. And don’t forget to calculate the arch into the height if you don’t have enough weight to level it out or find a trailer with no arch if you want max height and low weight.