4 Convincing Reasons for Hiring Flatbed Heavy Haul Companies

Looking for a reliable option for transporting huge machinery and other heavy objects?

This is where flatbed heavy haul companies come in.

What Are Flatbed Trucks?

You must have seen large trucks on the highway with ample open space on all sides. They are called flatbed trucks. They are usually used for transporting heavy, massive machines and objects that don’t fit into regular vehicles, including construction equipment, large cargo pieces, industrial equipment, and automobile.

If you are looking for a safe and reliable transportation solution for heavy pieces of freight, you should consider contacting flatbed heavy haul companies.

Below are the top four benefits of working with professionals.

1. Hassle-Free Loading and Unloading

One of your biggest concerns should be ensuring the safety of your goods while loading and unloading the freight. Easy loading and unloading is one of the reasons why people prefer flatbed trucks over conventional and dry vehicles.

Conventional trucks often have enclosed space, which might work well for moving furniture but not so much with over-dimensional freight. When you hire a flatbed shipping company, you can expect easy, safe, and convenient loading of your cargo. Thanks to the open, extended trailers, the freight can be forklifted or unloaded from any side.

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January 19, 2021January 19, 2021

Biden and Heavy Haul Trucking Companies

Biden’s plan for standard and heavy haul transporting companies will add four hundred billion dollars to the national budget over 10 years and three trillion dollars to an aggressive infrastructure program. He wants to be known as a champion of low carbon transportation, a strategy for the transportation industry and heavy haul trucking companies. Outlined in the plan are details to transition to a new generation of electric tractors and the advanced study of the airline and shipping sectors.

To keep transportation lanes moving while the positive impact on these initiatives is advanced with this plan to achieve the net-zero emissions end game by twenty fifty will include the following highlights. This would be accomplished by targeting the reduction of biofuel costs as this clean energy plan is started.

The development of more efficient engines would be a large part of the plan. These engines would power standard and heavy haul companies as well as many uses for the aviation and shipping sectors. To reduce the price range and access to the many charging stations of these newer technologies electric cars and trucks will be part of the transition plan.

All these plans can be accomplished here in the United States. The larger concern is the ability to hold the rest of the world accountable especially China and India as they enjoy developing country status waivers.

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January 9, 2021February 25, 2021

Improving Trucking Efficiency Flatbed Trucking Companies Embrace Technology

To reduce deadhead mileage and at the same time reduce carbon emissions in the standard and heavy haul transportation sectors flatbed trucking companies are embracing these new technologies at a rapid rate.

Because the long-haul trucking industry has been determined to contribute up to twenty-eight per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions this is critical to the continued reduction efforts of these carbon emission regulations. The supply chain demands this high mileage and heavy loads to stay current with market trends.

Ten-point eight billion tons of freight are transported annually representing seventy per cent of all goods that are moved domestically. The environmental protection agency has regulations in place to reduce these impacts in the standard and oversize shipment sectors, but they are hardly sufficient on their own. These greenhouse gas standards and the use of renewable fuels alone are not enough.

Flatbed trucking companies are looking toward technology to reduce these emissions while they ensure the timely movement of goods in an effective and efficient logistical flow. This kind of effort can make sure to offer much-needed sustainability for standard and oversize trucking improving efficiency because of the management and responsibility of these supply chains.

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December 28, 2020December 28, 2020

2020 Holiday Supply Chain Volatility for Van and Flatbed Shipping Companies

Challenges for the trucking industry remain difficult as truckers excel even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Key supplies and components are causing the deliveries of others to become strained. The added burden of this Holiday season has increased the logistical challenges for flatbed trucking companies. Keeping the shelves full of certain products during this unusual disruption is the challenge even for simple items like toilet paper, hams, and biscuits! Strategic supplies to hospitals and health care workers have taken priority as the pandemic continues.

Movement of goods as an essential operation needed to continue. Vehicle manufacturers shifted to produce personal protective supplies. Operational fleets now were delivering medical supplies, groceries and yes toilet paper! The industries, van and flatbed trucking companies stepped up and made the sacrifices needed to get the job accomplished. Once this new supply flow was accepted as the current new normal an unusual mix of balancing assets, personnel, responsibilities, processes, and on the fly changes was put into effect as a catalyst for meaningful long term changes.

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change.” Charles Darwin

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December 15, 2020December 15, 2020

MegaMAX US Trailer for Oversize Shipping

The Faymonville Group has developed yet another groundbreaking trailer for the ease of transportation of the most challenging oversize hauling projects. This trailer features extra-low clearances for the movement of extremely high and bulky cargo that is frequently called for by industries for the movement of machinery and oversized containers and crates.

A unique feature to this trailer in North America is the kingpin steering and its override remote control allowing to maneuver in the tightest of spaces. Hydraulic Pendle axles are featured in the three-axle version housing pneumatic suspension. The ability to increase the legal payload is accomplished with the unique steerable fourth pin-on flip axle air ride increasing versatility state by state during the heavy haul transportation.

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December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

Faymonville 10 axle line DualMAX trailer heavy haul transporting

The 10-axle dual max trailer is manufactured by “Faymonville Trailers to the Max” in 5 production facilities: Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland, Italy and Russia. This trailer is modular and a dual lane system that can move the highest payloads. The featured lift and shift patented engineering system make this trailer accessible to the most versatile and challenging loads in our global economy. Axles chassis can be widened even when loaded from thirteen feet eleven inches up to sixteen eighteen and even twenty feet. The adjustment is fast and easy adapting on the fly to the state by state regulations that we are faced with when moving heavy haul freight in the United States.

Dual max axle bogies are available in several axle lines enabling them to be combined forming just the size trailer that is needed to move even the most complicated oversized transport. The hydraulics control Pendle axles allowing them to be steered and suspended. These axles operate independently of each other making it very maneuverable but also keeping the maximum stability required under the most stringent engineering specifications. Steerable angles up to fifty-five degrees are featured with a total stroke of twenty-nine and a half inches with a maximum load per axle of fifty two thousand pounds at fifty miles per hour. This patented lift and shift system allows the trailer to be widened even when fully loaded. Because the steering rods do not need to be disassembled the trailer can remain static during the adjustment process easily, safely, and fast.

Faymonville 10 axle line DualMAX trailer heavy haul transporting

One of the best features is that this trailer can be reduced in size to be returned after delivery of the oversized transportation on a conventional flatbed trailer. Both drawbar and gooseneck systems are available to pull this trailer. Many decks and accessories can be incorporated in this highly versatile trailer. Extra low transformer decks, perimeter widening decks, turntables, and suspension beam systems to name a few.

All configurations can be adjusted to meet the most demanding DOT regulations for oversize freight shipping in the United States and all of North America. The Faymonville DualMax is a modular heavy haul platform trailer using the widen able patented lift and shift system that was developed specifically for heavy haul trucking companies in North America.

November 17, 2020November 24, 2020

13 Axle Step deck – Heavy Haul Transporters

The standard flatbed and step deck flatbed trailers are the most common trailers used today to ship all sizes and weights of cargo. In the shipping sector, they are the most adaptable to move heavy haul and oversize shipping loads. When these trailers are protected, loaded, and secured properly there are almost no limits to the cargo that can be transported. Because of the many configurations in these types of trailers the flatbed is the shipping tool of choice to move heavy transport and oversize shipping. There are many regulations in place that monitor the safety of moving these customized loads.

13 Axle Step deck - Heavy Haul Transporting — 13 Axle Step deck

Any loads over a standard size would require special permitting and certain regulations such as routes and times of day to travel. A usual load that would not require permitting are less than forty-eight feet long and less than eight and a half feet wide and no more than eight and a half feet tall. This standard size allows for four hundred square feet of cargo floor space. Because a usual trailer is five feet above the road surface standard clearances are just under thirteen and a half feet. When coming up with over-dimensional freight quotes these dimensions must be documented for the appropriated pricing.

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November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

Steerable 13 Axle Heavy Haul Climate Controlled Transportation

A steerable 13 axle trailer is a common solution to move specialized heavy haul machinery. To eliminate any damage to these special types of heavy equipment hauling, precautions are the key. Featuring a totally enclosed environment adequate protection for example to machinery roll faces is achieved meeting the engineering specifications for transporting these types of machinery.

The most advanced controlled heating systems are also part of the features of these types of trailers enabling an environment that may be required for special types of heavy haul freight. Climate control specifications meeting engineering criteria is often a requirement for transporting such specialized freight to safely protect the integrity of the cargo, especially during harsh weather.

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October 23, 2020October 23, 2020

9 Axle Trailer – Heavy Haul Transporters

Specialized cargo may need a nine-axle trailer. We can outfit your cargo with the flatbed trailer that is needed for the configuration of your shipment. These heavy haul transportation loads can weigh up to seventy-five tons. A nine-axle heavy haul transport flatbed trailer can transport your cargo safely and within all state and federal regulations. These features allow your cargo to be shipped in one piece most of the time without having to incur additional costs to break down the load. They can be moved using as few trailers as possible to meet these weight regulations.

You will see the difference moving a load with the correct equipment in one piece vs. several in the bottom line of your budget. Cumulative savings will be quite evident in savings for labor, fuel, and dismantling and reassembling times. This reduction in cost using our concise logistics can reflect a savings of as much as $5,000 to $10,000 per trailer load.

Please make it a point to check into our heavy haul transporting quotes today where an experienced, knowledgeable, and professional staff can help you work through the logistics and budget of your shipping project. Call us at (844)337-4909 to work through any heavy transport load questions.

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October 8, 2020October 9, 2020

What are the Dangers of Oversize Hauling?

Oversize truckloads are nothing new. They’ve been overstuffing trucks with stuff for as long as there have been trucks. You have probably seen a bright, black and yellow banner that bears the words “oversize load” on a truck before. This type of truck usually carries industrial equipment, a mobile home, or a steel shipping container. Some of these trucks exceed their capacity. Due to the varying sizes and weights of industrial equipment and homes, this is bound to happen from time to time.

This can result in accidents, injuries, and even deaths in some cases. It also causes millions of dollars’ worth of losses as well when taken together. However, we have learned many things over the hundred years that trucks have been on the road. Hence, we can now identify the dangers associated with overstuffing trucks. So here are a few practices that you should watch out for and protect yourself and your cargo.

Increased Stopping Distance

Increased stopping distance is a problem that is inherent to oversize hauling in general. Larger mass means greater momentum, which means a greater force needed to stop a moving body. The average stopping distance for a loaded tractor-trailer is 196 feet. This is compared to 133 feet for a passenger vehicle. In general, stopping distance increases by 25% for every 20,000 pounds added after the first 80,000 pounds. That’s the upper legal limit for normal load sizes. Hence, it shouldn’t ever be exceeded without proper precautions.

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