subject: Keeping Construction Companies Building With Equipment Transport [print this page] Construction crews use equipmentConstruction crews use equipment. They use a lot of equipment. Drive past an open construction site and you can catch a mere glimpse of how much tools they use. From drills, hammers and shovels, to lots of lumber and steel rods, all of these items need to be at the site at the right time. But with so many moving parts to contend with how are construction firms supposed to cope with getting all of their eggs in one basket, so to speak? Easy answer. The best way for them to do this is by using an equipment transport service.
Construction companies require the type of equipment that is heavy and in many cases, large. On top of that, construction sites can cover a whole lot of ground. Even the smallest sites, like constructing a single family house for example, need a lot of equipment. When you take that into account, large construction sites exponentially increase the number of tools and construction vehicles needed. Living near a highway construction zone where they are building a bunch of new roads and off-ramps, I can verify the large size of the area. I can only make a wild estimate as to how much equipment they have on the site from my car as I drive past them. But for logistics companies, taking care of the problem of equipment transport is, quite literally, business as usual.
Many equipment transport companies use three methods of transporting construction assets: vans, trucks, and trains. The latter two options are the most widely used with construction equipment and of those two using flatbed trucks is the most common method of transportation. While trains can carry huge amounts of equipment from point A to point B, the system of roads and highways found in the United States is so extensive that flatbed trucks are usually the most cost-effective and fastest option available. Flatbed trucks can easily be converted to carry all types of equipment in various loads.
It is better for construction companies to use transport companies because very few, if any, of their vehicles can navigate roads and highways over a long distance. Sure they can cross a block or two from one construction site to the next but it is not easy. Multiply those distances when a construction firm takes a job in a whole other city or state and therein lays the conundrum of how to get their heavy equipment there.
