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Logi Transports: Pioneering Heavy Equipment Transport Minnesota
In the heart of the Midwest, where the landscape shifts from urban sprawls to vast agricultural fields, the need for specialized transportation services for Heavy Equipment Transport Minnesota is paramount. Enter Logi Transports, a company that has carved out a niche in Minnesota for moving everything from farm machinery to industrial giants with precision and care.
A Legacy of Trust and Expertise
Logi Transports isn’t just another transport company; it’s a testament to what happens when expertise meets customer-centric service. Specializing in the logistics of heavy equipment, Logi has established itself as a go-to for businesses and individuals alike who require the transportation of oversized, heavy, or delicate machinery. Their services range from farm equipment to construction machinery, ensuring that whatever the load, it’s handled with the utmost professionalism.
The Challenge of Heavy Equipment Transport
Moving heavy equipment presents unique challenges:
- Size and Weight: Equipment like combine harvesters or industrial cranes require specialized trailers like RGNs (Removable Gooseneck Trailers) or Step Decks, which can accommodate varying heights and weights without compromising safety or legal transport regulations.
- Route Planning: Navigating through Minnesota’s diverse terrain, from the bustling Twin Cities to rural routes, requires meticulous planning to avoid low bridges, narrow roads, or areas with weight restrictions.
- Permits and Regulations: Oversized loads often require special permits, and Logi Transports ensures all legalities are covered, making the transport process smooth and compliant.
Logi’s Approach to Service
- Customized Solutions: Recognizing that each piece of equipment has unique needs, Logi Transports tailors its services. Whether it’s using heavy-duty liftgates, air-ride trailers for a smoother ride, or ensuring that the equipment is securely fastened, their approach is always customized.
- Safety First: With a commitment to safety, Logi’s drivers are not just transporters; they’re trained to handle and understand the equipment they move, ensuring minimal risk of damage or accidents.
- Customer Engagement: From the initial quote to the final delivery, Logi keeps clients informed, offering transparency that’s rare in the logistics industry. This includes real-time tracking for those who need it, ensuring peace of mind.
Minnesota’s Unique Transport Challenges
Minnesota’s weather can be unforgiving, with winters bringing snow and ice, and summers offering heat and humidity. Logi Transports adapts to these conditions, ensuring that their operations are not just about moving equipment but doing so under any weather condition safely.
Community and Environmental Responsibility
Logi Transports also prides itself on its environmental consciousness, optimizing routes to reduce fuel consumption, and ensuring that their operations have minimal impact on the environment, aligning with Minnesota’s green initiatives.
Conclusion
Logi Transports stands out in Minnesota’s heavy equipment transport sector not just for its logistical prowess but for its commitment to service, safety, and environmental responsibility. Whether it’s moving a combine harvester across the state or delivering industrial machinery to a construction site, Logi Transports ensures that the journey is as smooth as the destination is secure. For businesses in Minnesota looking for reliability in heavy equipment transport, Logi Transports is not just an option; it’s the standard.
Minnesota Oversize Permits
MINNESOTA OVERSIZE PERMITS INFORMATION
Important!
We are not a permit service. We do not arrange permits for carriers. The following is for informational purposes only. We also do not answer permit and escort requirements. Always read your permits and provisions sheets carefully. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.
Minnesota DOT Ph#: 256-234-4265
PERMITS: Minnesota oversize permits are valid for five travel days. Must have permit prior to entering the state.
OPERATING TIME: Sunrise to sunset can run without special lighting. Up to and including 10′ wide can usually run 2:00 am to 10:00 pm, weekdays and Saturdays (except for curfew areas and Friday summer restrictions, below) but must have flashing amber lights front and rear at night, and lights in place of flags and outlining vehicle and load for night running. Over 10′ wide must have front and rear escorts plus lights to run before sunrise or after sunset. During summer months (Memorial Day weekend through the Friday after Labor Day), no movement from 2:00 pm Friday until sunrise on Saturday except for up to 9′ wide on 22′ or wider roadway, up to 14′ high. Travel is permitted Saturday all day, and Sunday from sunrise to 12:00 noon. Over 10′ wide can travel at night only with front and rear escorts and must meet all lighting requirements.
RESTRICTED TRAVEL: No travel on major holidays, some holiday weekends or on Fishing Opener Weekend in May. For vehicles over 12′-6″ wide, over 95′ long, or over 14′ high, no travel in Twin City Metro area between the hours of 6:00 am – 8:30 am or 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm or in Duluth city limits between 7:00 am – 8:30 am or 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm unless specifically stated on permit. These metro areas are defined on the OD/OW Travel Hours sheet available on their website, click here.
LEGAL DIMENSIONS
Length:
- 75′ overall
- 53′ semi-trailer
- 43′ kingpin setting measured from kingpin to center of rear axle group
Note: Utility Poles are exempt from permits only if the Bill of Lading lists the load as utility poles. Pipes, beams, etc. not exempt.
Width: 8′-6″
Height: 13′-6″
Weight:
- 80,000 Gross on designated highways
- 73,280 non-designated with 5 axles
- 80,000 non-designated with 6 axles
- Steer Axle – 600 pounds per inch of tire width (13,200 pounds with 11″ tires)
- Tandem – 34,000
- Tridem – 42,000
- Single – 20,000 Designated highways (18,000 other roads)
ROUTINE PERMIT LIMITS
Length:
- 95′ for two-vehicle combination (wheelbase of 75′)
- 103′ with a single pivot point
Width: 14′-6″, and up to 16′ for certain routes
Height:
- 14′ to 15′-6″ with route restrictions
- Loads over 15′-6″ are highly restricted and a route survey is required
Weight:
- Single – 20,000
- Tandem – 40,000 (46,000 with bridge check)
- Tridem – 60,000
- Quad – 72,000
- Steer – 600 pounds per inch of tire width (13,200 on 11″ tires)
- Pusher Axle – 500 pounds per inch of tire width (11,000 pounds with two 11″ tires)
You must be registered for at least the amount of weight you are permitting for Minnesota.
Loads exceeding these dimensions or weights are considered as Super Loads.
ESCORTS
Length:
- Over 95′ – one escort
- Over 110′ – two escorts
Width:
- Over 14′-6″ – one escort on multi-lane divided highways
- two escorts on two-lane highways
- Police escort required if load encroaches on opposing lane
Height:
- Over 15′-5″ – one escort with high pole suggested, but not required
- Over 15′-6″ a height survey is required to get a permit.
Note: A few routes with “deficiencies” may require an extra escort.
SEASONAL LOAD (WEIGHT) RESTRICTIONS: Winter load increases (allowing 10% over maximum axle weights) usually go into effect sometime in December. The start date changes from year to year. Over legal axle/group weights are usually not allowed during the spring thaw period, usually from about February 1 or March 1 (depending on zone) through early to mid May, then middle-range limits take effect until about May 31.
SIGNS, FLAGS & LIGHTS: “Oversize Load” signs required when escorts are required or when over 12′ wide. They must be lit up to run at night. Flags (18″ square) are required whenever rear overhang exceeds 4′, or when vehicle/load exceeds 9′ in width or 75′ in length. Flags should be mounted at tip of overhang, at corners and widest points of load. An overwidth or overlength vehicle/load requires flags at each corner of the load, with an additional flag at the widest point on each side of the load if it extends beyond the corner flags. Overhang exceeding 4′ requires light at night. Flashing amber lights are usually required on the permit when over 12′ wide.