Nearly every one of us has had to move something from point A to point B with some significant distance between the two at least one time in our lives. Moving into or out of a home, apartment, or campus dorm are just some of the examples. However, some of us do this on a constant basis, and some of us move more than just the contents of an apartment. For those people heavy haulage is a constant factor in the success or failure of their business. Finding the right company to do this in a given time frame safely can impact the bottom line significantly.
For the purposes of this article, heavy haulage is multi-ton shipments via a long distance system of transport and delivery. This can be by rail, highway, ship or even airplane. While exceptions do exist, typically the shipments are raw materials to be used in a construction environment or waste being taken from the same. Sometimes this is called dryage, which originally meant to transport by a sideless cart.
Typically this service is provided by either a national trucking company or an international brokerage firm. Heavy haulage services includes the shipment of goods to and from the origin point, completion of both inbound and outbound documents, and storage of empty cartons and crates while not in use (which can take up a significant amount of essential space otherwise).
Those companies having need of heavy haulage services typically also need to prepare a place for convenient pickup and delivery. Because of the size of the shipments, parking a long haul semi in the front parking space would be inconvenient and could violate some traffic restrictions depending upon the locality. So this area, commonly known as the dock, is set aside for inbound and outbound traffic. Depending upon the size of the organization employing this service, separate docks may be established as well.
When choosing a heavy haulage service, much more than price has to be considered. It is well and good to get a bargain rate price, but if that comes at the cost of late pickups or drop-offs or the product, and the name of the employing business being spread over the interstate because of an inexperienced or unsafe driver, the cost may be too much to bear. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Regularly checking safety records and recommendations from others in a similar field will help to expose those flaws and make choosing the right shipper as opposed to the cheapest one much easier.
Heavy haulage information can be found online. Heavy haulage makes moving heavy loads easy.
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One of the problems with large cranes is the difficulty of transporting them from site to site. Complete containerisation is now seen as a solution, and in this video we see the world's first containerised crane - with a lift capacity of 2,000 tonnes - transported from Rotterdam to New Brunswick, Canada. At a petrochemical site, it is reassembled and begins its lifting duties. A second feature shows an industrial vessel transported on SPMTs through night-time Bratislava, Slovakia. It is then lifted by a hydraulically operated 3,000-tonne-lift crane whose counterweight is made of transport containers that are filled with locally available materials. High in the Austrian Alps, a dredger, barge and associated equipment are transported by road to a dam reservoir 2,200 metres up at the foot of the Gross Glockner mountain. This is demanding terrain for the truck combinations and their drivers. Finally, a brick-built factory recreation room is moved in one piece for preservation in Groningen, Holland. New steel H-beams are placed under the building which is then hoisted on to SPMTs for transport.![Heavy Transport [VHS]](bloggerimages/41YCB1ZGPSLSL500.jpg)
For machinery enthusiasts, this is a film showing seven exceptionally heavy or bulky loads moved by road in Europe and the United States. Perhaps the most striking item is the 1000-ton U-boat, salvaged off the coast of Denmark and loaded for shipping to Liverpool's Merseyside maritime museum.
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Transport enthusiasts should be intrigued by the items included in this video by Dutch trucking specialists, Videoprofessionals. One of the problems with large cranes is the difficulty of transporting them from site to site. Complete containerization is now seen as a solution, and in this video we see the world's first containerized crane - with a lift capacity of 2000 tonnes - transported from Rotterdam to New Brunswick, Canada. At a petrochemical site it is reassembled and begins its lifting duties. A second feature shows an industrial vessel transported on SPMTs through night-time Bratislava, Slovakia. It is then lifted by a hydraulically operated 3000-tonne-lift crane whose counterweight is made of transport containers that are filled with locally available materials. High in the Austrian Alps, a dredger, barge and associated equipment are transported by road to a dam reservoir 2200 metres up at the foot of the Gross Glockner mountain. This is demanding terrain for the truck combinations and their drivers. Finally, a brick-built factory recreation room is moved in one piece for preservation in Grogingen, Holland. New steel H-beams are placed under the building which is then hoisted on to SPMTs for transport.
Perhaps the most striking item is the 1,000-ton U-boat salvaged off the coast of Denmark and loaded for shipping to Liverpool's Merseyside maritime museum. On the road, the 87-metre-long transport is managed by computerised platform trucks, and the same technology is seen in use in Florida to move the central core of a coal gasification unit across Interstate 75. At the destination, the world's largest crane, a Demag CC-12000, hoists the equipment to complete the plant. The other loads shown are moved by truck combinations along highways and past the obstacles presented by small towns and villages. Most of the loads are industrial units ranging between 100 and 460 tons, though some lighter freight is included. The commentary draws out the skills of the drivers and operators, working patiently to minimum tolerances and with various degrees of forward planning and assistance.