Transport Moving Shipping Industrial Boilers

Moving boiler room equipment is actually a significant portion of the flatbed trailer transportation industry.

The large volume of boilers being shipped has created the need for custom flatbed trailers to be built and utilized specifically for the transport of industrial boilers. Since boilers are both heavy and tall, lower profile flatbed trailers have to be utilized for boiler transport. Nonetheless some boilers require oversize and/or overweight permits for legal transport over roads and highways.

Here is an example of various industries that rely on commercial boilers.

Boiler room equipment shipping will be simplified for you when you use Great Western Transportation; the staff has background and experience in specialized heavy haul boiler room equipment hauling.

Simply call our freight consultants with your boiler room equipment shipping information and go on to other activities, knowing your equipment will ship on time and within your budget.

Following are shipments of boiler room equipment that we have shipped:

Take the transportation-booking portion of your boiler room equipment shipping needs to a higher level and book with Great Western Transportation. Let our team take the hard work of booking the right trailer equipment that has the required weight and height capacity for your industrial boiler transport.

We make boiler room equipment shipping easy and cost effective.

Our team will make certain that you are getting the best possible quote based on trailer availability. So in order for us to provide you the best possible rate, call us as far in advance as possible.

No doubt about it, if you use our shipping team one time, you will then be a returning customer for future loads or freight you need hauled.

Boiler Shipping Case Studies

Shipping, hauling and moving of commercial boilers under the following circumstances.

Industrial Boiler Rental

Industrial or commercial boilers are transported by a flatbed tractor-trailer when on skids, or a power only trucking service, when permanently mounted on a trailer. Smaller capacity models are skid mounted and higher capacity models are trailer mounted or need to be loaded on an RGN or low-boy type of trailer.

Why Rent a Commercial Boiler?

Rental boilers are most often the best choice when supplemental steam is needed for numerous reasons:

Your company has to determine that the boiler rental cost is a justifiable expenditure when compared to lost production costs. When determining this financial aspect the following factors should be considered:

Companies will have different requirements for renting a boiler; here are 5 key reasons why a company should rent a commercial boiler.

1-Emergencies

Boilers are crucial to your plant operations or provide required heating. When emergencies occur, rental boilers are ready to be delivered and can be attached to your system in a matter of hours.

2-Peak Demand

Renting a supplementary boiler during peak operational hours will supply additional steam during periods of high demand. Using a supplementary boiler alleviates un-necessary stress on the existing boilers.

3-Shutdown or Boiler Repairs

All boilers will require regular and routine: cleaning, inspection and overall maintenance, during this time renting a boiler may be required. Your boilers need to be safe and reliable, taking the time to maintain them while renting a boiler, should be performed on a routine basis.

4-Capital Expense Alternative

When a company is low on available free capital or your boiler room is taking too long to build or upgrade. Then, boiler rental allows for your company to have a lower cost steam production alternative and provides your company with more growth options.

5-Flexible Payment Terms

To maintain a financially sound business you should choose from: short-term or long-term rental, lease-purchase or finance, as boiler acquisition options.

How much downtime can you afford?

We at Great Western Transportation understand that “downtime costs money,” so we strive to deliver within the fastest response time possible.

Emergency Boiler Connection Tip
Do not spend days off-line while the rental unit is being tied into the plant. Facility-wide shutdowns can sometimes be necessary to make rental unit connections. Be prepared with a quick connection taps and a power mechanical hub for emergency connections.

Emergency boiler rental service provides temporary heat processing to keep production downtime to a minimum. Rental boilers are available on a trailer-mounted platform or on a skid, and can be delivered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on a flatbed tractor-trailer.

Rental Boiler Configurations

20 HP – 100 HP
Temporary steam plant systems in this capacity range are for smaller operations; the typical would be a 50 HP mobile low-pressure boiler plant of the fire tube type.

150 HP – 350 HP
Portable boiler systems in this capacity range are for mid-sized plants; the average output is 200 HP for most of the portable boiler systems in this category and are of the fire tube type.

400 HP – 800 HP
Rental boiler systems in this range have the capacity for larger plants; these are higher steam output systems, such as the 800 HP 250psi Low-NOx temporary boiler system.

30,000 Lb/Hr – 82,500 Lb/Hr
These are larger capacity temporary steam plants; they are generally water tube type boilers. These are for very large operations and steam generation plants.

Additionally hot water, low-pressure steam, high-pressure steam and domestic hot water capabilities are also available on skid mounted portable trailers. Trailer-able skid mounted units are typically 10’ or 20’.

Fully enclosed temporary boiler plants are built into 40′ containment system or custom 53′ containment systems. These require power only tractors to pick-up and deliver them.

All boilers are capable of burning a wide variety of fuels including natural gas, #2 oil and #6 oil.

Also available is a wide range of accessories including:

Great Western Transportation can move all boilers ranging in capacity from 20 HP to 100,000 Lbs/Hr and provide power only services for trailer-mounted solutions.

Industrial Boiler Purchase

In the case of purchasing, refurbishing or rebuilding a boiler, the trailer will be a low-boy heavy haul type of trailer. The weight of boilers can easily go into the 80,000 pound range. Some of the larger boilers are in the 140,000 pound range, and will require multi-axle specialized trailers.

Industrial boiler shipping and moving will always require the use of a flatbed trailer or a specialized trailer and Great Western Transportation is your heavy haul trailer source.

Purchasing Reconditioned, Rebuilt or Used Industrial Boilers

When purchasing re-built boilers with re-done tube work, insulation, casing replacement, controls, wiring and paint work; these boilers often sell at half the cost of a new unit, why not keep the moving costs within budget also.

Boiler Reconditioning

There will come the time when the operational life span of an industrial boiler will come to an end. The reconditioning of the boiler is an option, however this will require shipping the boiler to a reconditioning facility.

Great Western Transportation will co-ordinate with your staff to move heavy assets to the reconditioning facility immediately. Specializing in permit hauling, oversize loads and wide, tall & heavy asset movement.

Great Western Transportation will keep your transportation costs within budget.

Great Western Transportation is one of Americas best providers for power-only, tow-a-way and flatbed trailer transport. Great Western Transportation can haul from 20HP fire tube to 82,500 Lb/Hr (PPH) water tube boilers to all locations in the US and Canada.

Types of Boilers

Solid Fuel Boilers

Flatbed trailer shipping is ideal for solid fuel fired boilers, such as boiler systems made by Hurst, one of the industry’s most popular solid fuel fired boiler manufacturers.

Solid fuel burners can be used with:

Great Western Transportation has moved boiler and boiler room equipment from leading manufacturers:

Contact Great Western Transportation to get the current spot market price for flatbed trailer transport and heavy haul services, last minute emergency hauling is our specialty.