Specialized/heavy haul transport freight.

[LowBoy]

I'm back, after a LOOOOONG season of propane relocation engineering in the northeast.

Now I'm diving back in head first into another lowbed/long haul/oversize transport season with a new outfit. I'll have an 8 axle setup with a stinger.

As I will be starting full time in a week or thereabouts, I have been snooping around various websites and loadboard services to determine the amount of RGN and lowbed freight moving around this great country.

The results are quite sureal. There's only a few loads available for RGN's in and around the northeast, going anywhere...Last year at this time, I was busier than a one legged sack runner in a butt kicking contest. This season, it's looking quiet to say the least.

I'll be aggressively searching out all options to keep an 8 axle rig moving around. Any of the existing heavy haulers that have a good suggestion for steady or occasional loads either through a decent broker, equipment dealers or otherwise, please lend your input.

Again, I've been out of the loop for 12 months, and things have changed. In all reality though, there's plenty of Military and other types of equipment getting moved every day, it's a matter of being selective in who you do it with currently. The rates seem to be absolutely ridiculous currently too.

Thanks for any information.

 

[bill onthehill]

welcome back lowboy. Have been wondering what became of you and your interesting posts. Moving big stuff should pick up if they get some of the highway projects moving soon.

 

[Squizzy246B]

Good to see you back on the road...so to speak, LowBoy.

BTW....its busier than a one armed brick layer in Beiruit...

 

[JDOFMEMI]

No help here, but glad to see you back. We will be looking forward to your road trip updates.

Good Luck

 

[cat 385]

welcome back lowboy,wish i could help

 

[LowBoy]

Shooot, I don't get this warm of a welcome from my own wife after being gone a couple days... Thanx for making me feel impotent.

Not to worry...I'll take plenty of pics once I get rolling again.

Squizzy; It's USUALLY "busier than a one armed paper hanger with jock itch"...:drinkup
And at the same token, colder than a well digger's ankles to boot!

 

[jimmyjack]

lookin forward to the pics and storys:drinkup:drinkup

 

[willie59]

Shooot, I don't get this warm of a welcome from my own wife after being gone a couple days... Thanx for making me feel impotent.

Now that's dang funny.
I hope things work out well for you and you get "busier than a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs!

 

[LowBoy]

Now that's dang funny.
I hope things work out well for you and you get "busier than a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs!

Thanks ATCOEQUIP, I'll remember that! I just hope my new boss ain't "Meaner than a sack 'o cats"...

 

[AtlasRob]

Shooot, ..... Thanx for making me feel impotent.

.............No, really were pleased your back

 

[DigDug]

Good to see you back Lowboy. I enjoy your stories and pics. doug

 

[OCR]

Good to see you back Lowboy. I enjoy your stories and pics.

Same from me too, LowBoy... :thumbsup


OCR

 

[bear]

Shooot, I don't get this warm of a welcome from my own wife after being gone a couple days... Thanx for making me feel impotent.

Not to worry...I'll take plenty of pics once I get rolling again.

Squizzy; It's USUALLY "busier than a one armed paper hanger with jock itch"...:drinkup
And at the same token, colder than a well digger's ankles to boot!

Glad to see your kicking there Lowboy, I enjoy you travels and (mis)adventures as well.

I hope your boss isn't "meaner than a burlap bag full o' bobcats" and your "busier than a one legged man in a (family freindly edit here) butt kicking contest. Be safe and keep the wheels on the bottom side.

 

[LowBoy]

Thanks guys. Now the really unfortunate news is, this new job comes with one of them there fancy knee-top computers, and some fancy "air card" that they were telling me about. First I ever heard of such a thing. An AIR CARD... Sounds as if I need air for any reason...I can access it right from that fancy knee-top computer machine. Talk about having everything you need right at your fingertips (or at the kneecaps in my case.) I hope there's enough hose going from the fancy knee-top computer machine to reach to the back of the lowbed to blow those tires up way back there with that setup. I'm thinking there must be a really thin, small compressor built into that knee-top to make all that air. Them people over there in Japan really got some know how to do something like this here.

Once I get the air function figured out, then they tell me I can take pictures of stuff, hook a wire from the camera to the machine and it'll suck all the pictures out from inside the camera into the computer somehow, and they'll show up right here...Huuuuh. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

On a serious note, all went well with my meeting today with new employer. I brought a buddy of mine with me and he got a job as well! Starting all this in 2 weeks. The truck I'll have they're going to sandblast and repaint the frame and suspension, and do a couple of things to it to make it nice, then we'll hit it hard. I just hope there's some iron for me to move around. It's a tad bit quiet out there from what I'm seeing and hearing...

 

[Dualie]

The only ones i know doing a damn thing are wind farm transports and military loads

 

[nedly05]

Glad you're back lowboy, looking forward to pics and stories!

 

[LowBoy]

Glad you're back lowboy, looking forward to pics and stories!

Thanks nedly, I just hope I find enough equipment and stuff to haul to take pics of and tell stories about...

 

[SterlingR]

My buddy went from hauling heavy equipment to hauling wind mill towers. He stays busy.

 

[EZ TRBO]

Glad to hear from ya lowboy. I know my uncle and cuz have stayed busy moving military equipment out of the Oshkosh plant and some other things as well. There is a number of wind farms in the area set to go up so might be somthing there as well, but its not near the green mts. Closer to the Mississippi River.

Trbo