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Get your load on the road. When your load is oversize, overweight, or otherwise non-legal, The Alliance Group can furnish competitive proposals for transport of any oversize or overweight load. An overweight load can be transported using either road or rail by distributing the weight better. Oversize loads require permits, and sometimes crews must be on hand to coordinate the heavy haul. Power crews must relocate power lines, escorts must clear traffic in the case of wide loads.
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A 80' bridge girder is hauled off a cross-Lake Michigan 410' ferry after a trip across the lake.

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A transformer is carried on a centipede trailer for better weight distribution.
superload super load Some superloads, as oversize and overweight loads are also known, require custom-modified trailers. The Alliance Group selects approved vendors with an eye toward flexibility, reliability, and safety. After all, if your super load doesn't get to the installation site in a timely and economical fashion, some has to pay - and we're not talking monopoly money! Sometimes shippers or owners of oversize loads have previous experience with a heavy haul or machinery moving contractor - when one has experiance like that, why should one use The Alliance Group? Because every load is different, companies gain and lose people, and laws change, among other reasons. Don't count on the status quo when your business has money at stake.
On the right is the world's largest Schnabel car. This particular car was built in 1984 by Krupp in West Germany for Combustion Engineering, now defunct. However, this and many other Schnable cars are available for charter to handle extremely large loads on rail. This includes hauling cracking towers, pressure vessels, boilers, and power generating equipment. The Schnabel car is able to not only haul the oversize or overheight load in a straight line, but can also hydraulically move the load around stationary obstacles by shifting right or left. schanbel rail car CEBX
A Schnabel car moving a cracking tower to a refinery.
   

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