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Logi Transports: Pioneering Heavy Equipment Transport North Dakota
In the vast, often rugged landscapes of Heavy Equipment Transport North Dakota, where the need for robust logistics solutions meets the challenge of transporting heavy, oversized equipment, Logi Transports stands out as a beacon of reliability and efficiency. Here’s an in-depth look at how Logi Transports has become synonymous with moving heavy equipment across this state.
The Backbone of Industrial Movement
Logi Transports specializes in the transportation of heavy equipment, from farm machinery to industrial giants, across North Dakota’s diverse terrain. Their service portfolio includes:
- Heavy Equipment Transport: Utilizing a variety of trailers like RGNs, Step Decks, and Goosenecks, they handle everything from standard to oversized loads. Their capability extends to moving equipment weighing up to 40,000 lbs without special permits, showcasing their logistical prowess.
- Container Moving Services: Whether it’s shipping containers for storage, transport, or special events, Logi Transports ensures that your container arrives at its destination, fully insured and with door-to-door service.
- Specialized Transport: For unique or particularly large loads, like mobile sterile processing units or heavy construction equipment, Logi Transports tailors their service to meet the specific needs, ensuring timely and safe delivery.
Why Choose Logi Transports?
- Experience and Expertise: With years of navigating North Dakota’s roads, Logi Transports understands the nuances of heavy haul regulations, weather conditions, and route planning, which is crucial for avoiding delays and ensuring safety.
- Customized Solutions: Recognizing that each piece of equipment has unique transport needs, they offer customized solutions, from choosing the right trailer to securing the necessary permits for oversized loads.
- Safety and Insurance: Every transport is fully insured, with the client as the holder of the insurance, providing peace of mind against any unforeseen incidents during transit.
- Customer Service: Their commitment to customer satisfaction is evident through their availability for free quotes, direct client communication, and a service model that values each client, no matter the size of the job.
Real-World Applications
Recent activities highlight Logi Transports’ capabilities:
- Food Truck Transport: Successfully moving a 24ft food truck shipping container from Kentucky to Fargo, ND, for an event, showcasing their ability to handle specialized cargo over long distances.
- Industrial Equipment: Transporting a 2015 mobile sterile processing unit from Texas to Fargo, demonstrating their capacity for expedited, heavy, and time-sensitive cargo.
Community and Environmental Impact
Logi Transports not only moves equipment but also contributes to North Dakota’s economy by facilitating industrial projects, agricultural operations, and event logistics. Their operations are conducted with an eye on minimizing environmental impact, ensuring that the heavy machinery they transport contributes positively to local development without undue ecological strain.
Conclusion
Logi Transports has carved a niche in North Dakota’s logistics landscape by offering not just transport services but a partnership in moving heavy equipment. Their blend of technological know-how, experienced drivers, and a fleet tailored for heavy hauling makes them an indispensable asset for anyone looking to move large, heavy, or oversized equipment within or through North Dakota. For businesses and individuals alike, Logi Transports represents not just a service but a solution to the logistical challenges posed by heavy equipment transport in one of America’s most industrially active states.
North Dakota Oversize Permits
NORTH DAKOTA OVERSIZE PERMITS INFORMATION
PERMITS: North Dakota oversize permits are valid for three days. Must have permit prior to entering the state.
OPERATING TIME: Sunrise to sunset, including Saturday and Sunday except loads over 16 feet wide and 110 feet long cannot travel Saturday after noon or Sunday all day. Overweight only can have continuous travel.
RESTRICTED TRAVEL: Travel may be restricted on major holidays or holiday weekends depending on dimensions. (Double check with permit office for holiday restrictions).
LEGAL DIMENSIONS
Length:
- 53′ semi-trailer and load
- 75 overall including load and any rear overhang
Poles, pipes, beams, utility poles, etc. are not exempt from permits for length or rear overhang.
Width: 8’6″
Height: 14′
Weight: 80,000 Gross
- Single – 20,000
- Tandem – 34,000
- Tridem – 48,000
Register tractor at the maximum of 105,500 pounds to be permitted for that much or more, or pay extra on the O/W permit.
Divisible Loads Exceeding 80,000: You can exceed 80,000 gross without a permit on state highways as long as you are legal on all axle/group weights and you are licensed for at least the amount of your gross weight. However, if you need any Interstate route, you will need to get an “Interstate Permit.”
ROUTINE PERMIT LIMITS
Length: 120′
Width: 18′
Height: 18′
Weight:
- Steer – 12,100 for 11″ tires (550 pounds per inch of tire width)
- Single – 24,000
- Tandem – 45,000
- Tridem – 60,000
- Quad – 68,000
Note: ND does not like to issue overweight permits when axle group weights are not evened out as much as possible.
Loads exceeding these dimensions or over 150,000 pounds are considered superloads.
ESCORTS
Length: Over 120′ – 1 escort
Width:
On 2-lane highways:
- Over 14’6″ up to 16′ – 1 escort, or may use lighted rotating or flashing amber light(s) visible for 500′ from the front and rear in lieu of escort
- Over 16′ – 2 escorts
On 4-lane highways:
- Over 16′ – 1 escort
- All highways: Over 18′ – Official escort (unless exempted by Highway Patrol)
- Instead of pilot car, for width over 14’6 but not over 16′, may be equipped with lighted rotating or flashing amber light(s) that are visible from the front and rear at 500 feet.
Height: Over 18′ – 1 escort and written clearances from utility companies.
SEASONAL LOAD (WEIGHT) RESTRICTIONS: Spring thaw load weight restrictions on non-Interstate highways go into effect some time in February and last into May and even much later on a few highways. Weight restrictions range from legal weight only to 8-tons, 7-tons and 6-tons per axle. Ton-mile exceptions are sometimes available, but they are very expensive.
SIGNS, FLAGS & LIGHTS: “Oversize Load” sign is required on rear of the vehicle when overall length exceeds 75′. All overdimensional loads must have flags on the traffic side of the load front and rear. Overwidth and overheight loads only require flags, not signs.