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Palletized Trucking Inc.
You can rely on Palletized Trucking Inc. to safely deliver your specialized, oversized, or overweight loads including but not limited to items such as pressure vessels, tanks, turbines, rotors, generators, transformers, pumps, compressors, coolers, presses, mills, machinery, raw and fabricated steel, building materials, drums, textiles, modular control buildings, sub-sea equipment, hazardous material, and, of course, palletized cargo.
Specialized, Oversized or Overweight
Below are the most frequently asked questions in regards to Palletized Trucking’s Specialized, Oversized or Overweight services and abilities. For more information, please contact our team to see what we can do for your next project!
Palletized Trucking owns more than 300 trailers. Our fleet consists of stretch combinations including flatbeds, low-profile, double-drops, single drops, lowboys, Removable Goosenecks (RGN) lowboys, multi-axle lowboys, steerable dolly systems, stepdecks, stretch-stepdecks, flatbeds, dry vans, intermodal chassis, pick-up trucks, short and long stakebeds, goosenecks, and up to 40 foot mini-floats. We are continuously expanding our heavy haul capabilities and now offer equipment capable of moving loads weighing in excess of 175,000 LBS. These trailers are great for cargo such as transformers, generators, vessels, control buildings, long skids, and other heavy equipment and are very maneuverable in congested or tight areas.
Although we exited the Super Heavy Haul industry in 2016, we now offer logistics services that manage jobs completed by our industry partners with the capabilities to service our customers’ super heavy haul needs.
For more information on your trucking or storage needs, please contact us: sales@palletized-trucking.com
Serving domestic and international markets shipping through the Port of Houston, we offer a fleet of dedicated trucks continually moving import/export cargo to and from the port terminals.
Industries such as petrochemical, construction, fabrication, energy, oilfield, and manufacturing rely on Palletized Trucking to safely deliver items such as pressure vessels, tanks, turbines, rotors, generators, transformers, pumps, compressors, coolers, presses, mills, machinery, raw and fabricated steel, building materials, drums, textiles, modular control buildings, sub-sea equipment, hazardous material, and, of course, palletized cargo.
We also have a Hot Shot Division. This division enhances our capabilities to serve our customers’ on-demand needs by providing direct service throughout the greater Houston area and to any destination in the Continental U.S. Our fleet consists of pickup trucks, short and long stake beds, gooseneck trailers, and up to 40 foot mini floats. We handle all sized shipments from a hand carried package up to 20 standard pallets at 17,000 LBS. This new service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and on holidays.
Please consider us your transportation company! From 100 LBS to over 1,000,000 LBS and everything in between, we have a solution for you!
For more information on your trucking or storage needs, please contact us: sales@palletized-trucking.com
For questions or concerns about your invoice, please contact our billing team by calling 713-220-9884 or by email at billing@palletized-trucking.com
Heavy haul availability depends on the type of equipment required to transport your special load. In most cases, we can offer flatbed and lowboy response within 3 business days, and many times we’ll be able to respond on the same day of your call.
While we are not directly servicing customers with our assets for Super Heavy Haul loads, it is important to know that superloads are loads which exceed the dimensions and/or weights normally issued on routine permits. The definition of a superload varies from state to state. For an example, Texas defines a superload as one which, when loaded, exceeds 20′ wide, 18′-11″ high, or 125′ long. A permit of this description requires advance application and physical route inspection. The time required for this process to be completed can be several days, a week, or even more depending on the distance to be traveled, and whether or not utility companies have to be involved.
When the load exceeds 254,000 pounds gross weight, the application must also go through a structural evaluation by the Texas Department of Transportation, and possibly and additional evaluation by the Pavements Division. Time for these evaluations to be completed may require as much as one to two months.
While the dimensions of a superload and the time to process the permit application may vary from state to state, it is always advisable to plan ahead. Even while your cargo is still in the manufacturing stage, it’s not too soon to address the transportation phase of your project.
Rates vary based on the commodity, origin, destination, size, weight, and equipment required. Our sales representatives will ask you for specific information, enabling them to calculate the most effective and economical means to address your needs.
We would be pleased to make an appointment to discuss your transport needs or your project scope of work. Please e-mail sales@palletized-trucking.com or call us at 346-446-4037 and let us know when it would be convenient for us to drop by.
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Specialized, oversized, overweight, or even a super heavy haul — we do it all!