Expert Oversize Freight and Heavy Haul Services

Oversized cargo includes freight that exceeds standard legal dimensions or weight limits for normal truck transport. Common examples include construction equipment, industrial machinery, modular building sections, large tanks, bridge beams, cranes, and aerospace components. These shipments often require specialized trailers, route planning, permits, securement, and sometimes escort vehicles to move safely and compliantly.

Oversize freight usually refers to cargo exceeding legal length, width, or height limits, while heavy haul focuses on freight that exceeds standard weight limits. Many shipments are both oversized and overweight. Sims Global Solutions evaluates dimensions, weight, loading requirements, route restrictions, and delivery site conditions to match the right trailer, permits, escorts, and securement plan.

Heavy haul shipments commonly require specialized open-deck equipment such as flatbeds, step decks, double drops, RGNs, lowboys, and multi-axle trailers. The right equipment depends on freight height, weight distribution, loading method, ground clearance, and route limitations. Sims Global Solutions can coordinate trailers capable of supporting complex freight, including loads over 200,000 pounds when appropriate.

Yes. Oversized freight transportation often requires state-specific permits, routing approvals, and escort vehicles depending on the shipment’s dimensions, weight, and travel route. Sims Global Solutions works with permitting and routing teams to help coordinate compliant movement, account for restrictions, and reduce delays caused by bridges, low clearances, construction zones, or local regulations.

Pricing depends on shipment dimensions, total weight, origin and destination, trailer type, permit requirements, escorts, route complexity, loading needs, and delivery timing. Super loads or multi-state moves typically require more planning than standard open-deck freight. Providing accurate specs, photos, lift requirements, and site details helps the team quote the safest, most cost-effective option.

Lead time varies by equipment availability, permit complexity, route approvals, and shipment size. Standard oversize moves may be arranged faster than super loads requiring engineering reviews, escorts, or multi-state permitting. For best results, shippers should begin planning as early as possible, especially for construction schedules, plant moves, or high-value equipment delivery.

SimsTrak provides real-time shipment visibility, allowing customers to quote, schedule, and track freight with accurate updates throughout the move. For complex heavy haul shipments, this visibility supports proactive communication around routing, timing, and milestones. Customers also benefit from consolidated billing, customized reporting, and dedicated logistics coordination from origin to destination.

Sims Global Solutions serves customers nationwide across all 50 states, throughout North America, and internationally through forwarding capabilities. Heavy haul and oversize freight support is available for major markets and industrial corridors, including Texas, California, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri.