Heavy Equipment Transport

Transportation of heavy equipment is a complex and responsible process that requires careful preparation and selection of the right transportation method. Heavy equipment, such as construction machinery, industrial equipment or large production facilities, imposes special requirements for transport, loading, unloading and safety.

Before you begin choosing a transportation method, it is important to understand the features and characteristics of your equipment:

• • Accurate knowledge of the weight and dimensions of the equipment will help you choose the appropriate transport and loading/unloading methods.
• • Some types of equipment require special attention to protect against damage.
• • Ensure that the equipment is suitable for the vehicle and road conditions.

Why should you contact Whirl Logistics Ltd?

There are a number of reasons why many organizations choose Whirl Logistics Ltd. Here are just a few of them:

High professionalism.

Only professional riggers with many years of experience should perform responsible work, which includes the transportation of oversized and large-sized cargo. These are the people who work in Whirl Logistics Ltd.

An accountable approach to plan and prepare transportation

Which requires careful preliminary preparation and analysis of various route options. The slightest mistake is fraught with, at best, a failure to meet deadlines, and, at worst, with enormous material damage and even human casualties. Whirl Logistics Ltd has established itself as one of the most reliable carriers of Heavy Equipment Transport in Abbotsford.

Modern technology.

The use of modern vehicles, tractors and low-deck platforms allows to guarantee high reliability.

Organization of heavy-duty transportation

Heavy Equipment Transport in Langley requires careful preliminary analysis and some calculations. And also proper strapping of cargo. Without this preparation, it is simply impossible to guarantee successful delivery.

The first stage of such preparation is the choice of transport vehicles. Here everything depends on the weight and dimensions (for example, transportation of transformers), loading and unloading features and many other factors. Having decided on the transport, it is necessary to plan the distribution of the load in the body or on the platform of the car in order to calculate the maximum load on each axle. Only after this it becomes clear to which category the car belongs and what restrictions apply to it.

Often, when moving heavy loads, as well as when lifting loads to a height, you have to deal with oversized cargo at the same time, especially when it comes to transporting special equipment or industrial machinery. Oversized cargo imposes additional restrictions.

Before such transportation, regardless of the distance of the route, it is necessary to carefully analyze each section in order to take into account all possible problems in advance. The most serious difficulties for movement are associated with overcoming bridges.

Transport for transportation

For Heavy Equipment Transport in Vancouver Island, many different types of vehicles are used all over the world. The most common type of vehicle for solving such problems are trucks and road trains consisting of tractors and multi-axle semi-trailers. These vehicles are best suited for handling divisible cargo - boxes, bags, small containers, etc. If it is about transporting heavy cargo such as, say, power plant turbines or tracked vehicles, then the presence of sides and the high height of the body can become an insurmountable obstacle to loading.

That is why Whirl Logistics Ltd use special low-deck trucks for Heavy Equipment Transport in Lower Mainland of this type. The advantages of a low-deck platform for oversized cargo transportation are obvious: a low center of gravity provides better stability, and a low platform height facilitates loading and allows for the transport of heavy cargo of greater height. Due to the absence of sides, there are no problems with loading.