Southwest Freight Brokerage INC

Southwest Freight Brokerage INC is a proven leader among heavy haul trucking companies, specializing in over-dimensional freight with specially designed flatbed trailers to transport nearly any size and weight.

When you need heavy haul trucking services, our experts will cover every detail of your shipment. We will advise your carrier of any special trip permits required by the states your freight will be traveling through. Our specialized agents are familiar with your freight and will prepare you for challenges that may arise. Through our nationwide network of dependable heavy haul carriers we are fully equipped to transport even your most challenging loads.

What is Heavy Haul Trucking?

A load is considered heavy haul when its dimensions exceed the legal length, width, height and weight of the state(s) through which the load is being shipped. This is also knows as over-weight, or over-dimensional (OD) freight.

What is Heavy Haul Trucking?

These specially designed flatbed trailers can carry most any size of over-dimensional freight that you are shipping. Types of heavy haul flatbed trailers :

Double Drops
Extendable Trailers
Removable Goosenecks (RGN)
Lowboy Trailers
RGN-Stretch Trailers

Tractor and trailers combinations may be 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 13 axle.

Load types

Commodities are as varied as the industries that create them and would include :

machinery	air exchangers	fabrication
aircraft components	condensers	heat exchangers
machinery	machinery	machinery
pipes	forklifts	conveyors
heavy equipment	generators	crushers
power turbines	excavators	transformers
structural beams	boilers	cranes
pressure vessels	presses	conveyors

Common brands: Bobcat, Case, CAT, Hitachi, Hyster, John Deere, Komatsu, Linkbelt and Volvo.

Considerations

Depending on dimensions, weight, and routing these types of shipments may require the purchase of special trip permits issued by states that the freight will be going through.