Super Heavy Haul Costs

Noted. Nobody said you were.

 

Just like to clarify

 

Well I will have to agree that we disagree here, but hey if there are two comments on here that are not the same that one is right and one is wrong. There is a possibility that both parties are incorrect. Forgive me if I upset anyone here. Lets move on and keep learning. The important thing I think these boards will help with is for someone to make money with new found knowledge and that some learns what not to do to where it endangers lives.

 

Ok now my curiosity is peaked, do you drive or are you a dealer?

 

drive, but not often anymore. I do not have my own truck anymore. Drive for local company. They have an 8 axle setup, but a dedicated guy for that.

And honestly never been over 7 axles, even though unofficially pulled 13 axles. Thats a long story in itself though.

 

Are there dealers on here? I got some questions to ask them.

 

Not if you know what you're doing.
I'm on my way to Harvey, Il., your neck of the woods, to load mid week right now.
On Thursday, last week, I submitted a Special Application for my next load, which loads on Vancouver Island, BC around the 5-7th.
It's called planning, not waiting...
Most stuff that requires planning, the shippers know they have to build in lead times. We started this plan at the beginning of the month.

 

I can't believe I read 11 pages.
Anyway the OP is gone I think, but did no one notice that the whole idea was that a freight broker was trying to figure out how to cut into this market?

Yea TQL is now going to undercut the heavy haul specializes

 

I understand how to communicate to a crane operator, but I require that operator to be on the job. Lives depend on his skill.

A long time ago we had a friend introduce me to crane work, I had about 4 minutes in one and did ok, but the people who did it professionally would have been laughing really hard. It's so bad as to be amusing to them and a form of abuse to the poor crane.

They told me to find something else to get into besides cranes. And that was probably one for the better advice I have been given a time or two in life.

What they were doing is a traffic cone on the gravel lot. About 60 feet away. On that cone was a soccerball. They wanted me to pick up this ball here, swing carefully and aim to hit the soccer ball.

Well I had one on the track with me and really quickly it was obvious to the blind I will miss that traffic cone and soccerball by about 4 feet. It's not so much as hitting it but the stopping the swing. Once it got going... whoo it's hard to stop. Fortunately they settled everything down quick enough. And said out. In a nice way but crane work is not in my skill set at all. Ha...

Some of the postings lean to indicate that the OP may be wanting to "Cheap out" and stick anyone into the drivers seat of a monster heavy haul. In my mind some of those loads need a puller and sometimes one or two pushers. And more people on the trailers that accomodate them as well in steering and so on.

My suggestion is you never "Stick just a driver" into that seat. Espeically one that does not know anything about it. No one will be stupid enough to stick me into a crane. But I am much better with a wheeled loader. I can do that all day. Crane workers are a whole special breed.

And so are those who pull very heavy loads. Sometimes loads big enough to actually maybe break the road or bridge or town if they screwed it up because it's so heavy. Hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's really amazing to see when you have the right people doing that. And very expensive when you don't.

 

As @johndeere4020 and @Heavy Hammer said, typically not, the driver is out working other jobs as the planning for the next is being done. We have a move coming up in the next month or two that we're working on permitting now. Got the first state surveyed and approved, now working on the second. Many more to go because this load goes from Washington to Florida. As for the driver, don't even know which truck/driver is hauling it yet, that won't be decided till it's actually "go" time. It'll be a T800 because we all have the same wheelbase but that only narrows it down to 8 of us. Or, like the last one, might be a couple of us because by the time I hooked up to it the last crew (driver and pilots) had been under it for 30 days and they were tired of it and ready to do something else. Permits can be amended in most states to change the power unit as long as the numbers (axles, spacing, weights) don't.

In the case of really large super-load moves, companies like Diamond assign equipment like the truck ('s) and trailer well in advance then often times the actual driver arrives right before the move, drives then leaves to go to the next one.