Heavy Construction Equipment Made Simple

Posted on: 30 March 2017

If you are relocating your business, and also need to relocate your machinery and construction equipment, you need to make sure that you have a detailed plan for moving your heavy machinery.

#1 Draft A Team Plan

Moving heavy machinery is a team effort. To start with, you need to have someone at your business who can clean up the machinery and get it ready for the move. Then, you need to figure out who is going to take the machinery apart if that is a necessary step in the process.

Next, you need to determine what type of equipment you are going to need to use to move your heavy machinery and get it onto the moving truck and the type of equipment you need to get it off the moving truck.

You are going to want to create a step-by-step instruction manual for moving each piece of heavy equipment and you are going to want to assign someone to each task on the list.

#2 Find A Moving Company

Next, you need to find a moving company that specializes in moving heavy machinery and construction equipment. When moving heavy machinery that may be oversized, you are going to need to work with the state government as well as with the moving company to get the permits that are needed to transport the equipment. This will require additional coordination, beyond the moving plan that you already drafted, with the moving company and state agencies.

Try to find a moving company that can help you with the legal side of organizing a large move and can help you obtain the proper permits.

Always double check any moving company you choose and make sure that they have enough liability insurance to cover the cost of protecting your equipment while moving it.

#3 Inspect Your Machinery

Before you move your machinery and construction equipment, complete a detailed inventory of all the parts involved in the machinery as well as their condition. You may want to take photos of the inventory or create a video as evidence of what shape the equipment was in.

When the machinery and equipment gets to its final location, you can use this detailed inventory to make sure that all the parts made it to your new business location and that they are in as good shape as when they left your business. This is also a great way to double check and make sure that you have everything you need to set-up the machinery when it gets to its new destination.