How To Ship An Urgent Heavy Equipment Load
Ship Your Urgent Heavy Equipment Load
How Urgent Is It?
You could be at a jobsite and you’ve experienced a breakdown. Or perhaps you had a Carrier let you down last minute, and you need this equipment for your project. Time is money as the saying goes. You now need to find a reliable, and affordable solution, like yesterday. So how do you ship an urgent piece of Heavy Equipment?
Where is the load located?
So how urgent is it really? Before you hit the 911 and pay over the odds for transport consider how far the equipment will need to travel to get to you. Is it in a remote are or along a major lane frequented by lots of trucks? Even if you need the equipment right away, it might actually be near impossible to get to you within the timeframe you need simply down to Geography and availability.
Consider Your Budget
Lets assume you have an equipment load ready, it’s not going to a remote location and you need that piece delivered ASAP. How much are you willing to pay for the urgency?
When faced with the cost of an urgent shipment, you might find that even giving a days flexibility can have a huge impact on the cost.
Ensure The Quality of the Driver or Carrier
So you’ve sourced an Owner Operator or Carrier and they have said they can pick up and deliver within your time sensitive window. You may have paid or placed a deposit too. Did you do your due diligence first?
Things to check before you book
Reviews/Ratings, word of mouth, checking insurance credentials, experience and more. Just because they say they can, does not always translate into actually doing it.
Get Ready!
Lets assume you’ve booked a reputable driver or Carrier. What’s next?
Well if it’s time sensitive you’ll want to ensure you are not causing any delays either at the pick up or the drop off.
- Can you get the equipment load ready?
- Is there assistance to load the driver?
- Does the driver have the correct dispatch, correct locations to pick and drop.
It sounds common sense but it’s these smaller details that can derail your urgent load.
So How Do You Get A driver For Your Urgent Equipment Load?
Connecting With A Professional Heavy Hauler
Consider using Trusted Dispatch.
It’s a digital loadboard that connects available loads to a large and growing community of expert heavy haul drivers that have free capacity and that are, or will be, passing through the area.
How It Works
The platform is automated and uses leading edge technology and algorithms to accurately quote, post and match drivers to these loads. And it’s all done quickly.
The rates are fair to the drivers and the shippers. The shipper can save up to 30% on average and the driver is getting extra revenue.
Crucially you set the ready date and delivery deadline. You set the urgency.
All of the drivers are vetted and have full cargo insurance. The best part about this platform is the ability to review the driver that accepts your haul before you confirm. You get direct contact with the driver so it’s easy to make final arrangements.
Getting Your Shipping Quote
It’s really very quick and easy. Visit the site, www.trusteddispatch.com or download the app through the Apple App Store, or the Google Play Store.
If you’re on the website click the “Get Your Instant Shipping Quote“
Now all you’ll need to do is enter a pick up location, drop off location. Then enter the model of the equipment. The platform has a built in equipment specification search tool. It will pre-populate the dimensions and weight for you.
You can also enter these manually or make changes if needed. Remember those above notes, the more accurate this information is the more likely a driver can assist and bring your load home.
The rate is then displayed after you enter an e-mail address as a first time user.
Huge time save right there, no wasted time calling and e-mailing.
Easy Peasy
Pretty straightforward. If you like the price you can then complete the load details page.
This page allows you to add notes (mark the load is time sensitive and urgent, set your ready date and delivery deadline. Toggle if there is a loading dock, or loading provided even add images of your haul.
Basically the more information added here the more likely you can connect with an available driver.
Then just post the load to the driver database.
Driver Connected
This platform automatically tells you when a driver accepts the haul, or if a driver sends you an offer direct. Especially useful if a driver can cover your urgent load, but just can’t quite make the platform rate work.
You get to review the driver before confirming and pre-paying the shipping in either example.
Now you’re immediately connected with the Owner Operator. You can then make final arrangements, discuss the load, and questions/concerns. That’s it.
The driver can’t claim his payment for the load until he delivers to you. Just pass along the delivery code to the driver that was sent at the confirmation point.
The website has some useful how to guides and videos that walk you through the process and also information on shipping cross border.
