how to get into heavy hauling work

Find companies near you that do crane and rigging work or road construction companies that need equipment moved. I'm not sure how Buchanon is to work for, or if you live in their hiring area, but I've run a few loads from their brokerage and have no complaints.

I don't haul heavy, but that's where I would probably start.

 

It depends what you are looking to do.

If you have a regular tractor and you want to start out with a 35-ton trailer then you need to go around as has been said to the construction companies, the crane companies, the rental companies, etc near you look for work that way. I actually had a quarry approach me about hauling their flatbeds and low beds so perhaps that's another option.

If you really want to get into heavy haul, meaning oversize loads, you're going to have to have a heavy haul truck.

Then you need to lease on to a company that will accept you without experience. I don't know if that's a big deal or not, but you do have to be able to safely and correctly load and chain/ strap down according to dot standards.

When you get into the real heavy Haul you need to be leased on somewhere as I said that will guide you through that because it's a whole entirely different world and the guys that do that are experts in a thousand different ways than regular truck drivers are not.

I don't mean that they're any better but they have a different skill set. Hopefully they know how to drive pulling 120,000 pounds behind them and a load that is oversized that if they're not careful they can wipe out a whole city street of cars parked there. And if they make one wrong turn that's off the permit route, that will cost thousands of dollars in fines.

And then on top of that the states have different regulations regarding weights and axle limits and length and I assume oversized permits and overhang and all the other myriad of things that you have to understand for each single state that you will operate in.

It would be much easier to stay loaded and keep rolling if you were leased onto a Heavy Haul company. I don't know about how often the home time would be though.

Maybe if you contacted a Heavy Haul company they could lease you on but not for the supergiant colossal loads maybe more for Flatbed loads or small oversized loads to get you started until you can get an actual Heavy Haul set up?

Maybe there's a local Heavy Haul place near you?

 

Money.....

 

First you need the right truck, not an otr truck. Second you need the market for it. When I lived in NY I could find constant freight in and out of port areas.
3rd you need a trailer. So about half a mil in equipment, and you can starve your way thru 2023.

 

And a lot of it….