Routing the load…
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Heavy haul.
How to ship a power transformer: weight, route survey, and lead time.
A grid-scale transformer can run 200,000–400,000 lb and route only on engineered paths. Here's what moving one actually involves — and why the lead time is measured in weeks, not days.
4 min · 2026-06-09
What makes a load a superload — and why the route survey takes weeks.
Above roughly 200,000 lb or 16 feet wide, permitting stops being paperwork and becomes engineering. Here's where heavy haul ends and superload begins, and why the timeline jumps.
4 min · 2026-06-08
How heavy-haul permitting actually works.
Single-state permits clear in days. Multi-state moves stack lead times. Superloads run weeks. Here's the math your dispatcher is doing while you wait for the quote.
4 min · 2026-06-01
How to pick a heavy-haul broker.
MC and DOT verification, bond size, insurance limits, named lanes, named carriers. The five things a procurement desk should look for that most brokerages don't lead with.
5 min · 2026-04-28