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D&J Towing handles construction equipment hauling for contractors who need a machine moved from the yard to the job, between job sites, or back to the dealer. We have run the foothill roads out of Evergreen since 1984, and we start every job-site move with the same question: how does the truck get from the road to your machine?
Before you call: the make and model, the operating weight, and the width and height with the attachments that travel with it.
A skid steer or an excavator runs fine on its own, but it cannot travel a highway or a canyon road under its own power. Construction equipment hauling closes that gap: the machine is loaded where it sits, carried on a trailer, and set down where your crew needs it. It is one of the two jobs inside our heavy equipment hauling service.
On a construction move the hard part is rarely the highway. It is the last stretch: a locked gate, a steep gravel drive, soft ground where the trailer has to sit, a power line over the loading spot, and nowhere to turn around. We ask about all of it before the truck leaves, so the day goes the way you planned it.
If the drop-off end has no ramp, dock or level spot to unload, that part of the job is equipment offloading, and it can run as part of the same move.
Score the five checkpoints a loaded truck passes on the way to your machine. The path diagram fills in as you go, and anything tight or unknown lands on a short list of what to tell dispatch.
Opening width, the turn in from the road, and whether it will be locked when the truck arrives.
How steep the drive or haul road is, what it is made of, and how tight its turns are.
Whether the spot can hold a loaded truck and trailer. Spring mud, fresh fill and soft shoulders give way.
Power and phone lines, tree limbs and rooflines over the drive and the spot where the machine loads.
A place to turn the rig around, or a way out that does not mean backing down a hill or into traffic.
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A machine that shows up a day late leaves a crew standing around. One that shows up before the site is ready has nowhere to go. Here is how a job-site move lines up with your schedule.
Foothill job sites rarely sit right off the highway. The last miles are often county roads and private drives: narrow, unpaved, steep, with tight switchbacks and bridges that carry weight limits. That is where we spend the planning time, because a route that works for a pickup does not always work for a loaded trailer.
Spring thaw turns cut ground and new driveways to mud, and winter snow can bury the turnaround you counted on in the fall. The same site can score differently in April than it did in October, so we ask what it looks like this week, not when the job started.
Colorado's legal size and weight limits, oversize permits, the I-70 chain law season and how a machine is tied down are covered on our heavy equipment hauling page linked above. They apply to every haul we run, construction moves included.
Our Wyoming work is heavy-duty and commercial, built around Wheatland and the I-25 corridor, and it includes hauling.
In high winds, WYDOT has closed I-25 between Cheyenne and Wheatland to light, high-profile vehicles. Wyoming moves get planned around the wind forecast.
Ranch and energy jobs sit far apart, often down long gravel roads. The same gate-to-machine questions apply, just with more miles between them.
Answers for contractors planning a job-site move. If yours is not here, call dispatch at (303) 674-0198 and ask.
Five things: the gate and entrance, the drive and its grade, the ground where the trailer will sit, anything overhead, and room to turn around. Add the machine's make, model, weight and size with attachments, both addresses, and the date it has to be working.
Yes. Moving a machine between job sites is a standard construction haul. Timing depends on the distance, the access at both ends and the schedule that day, so call with both addresses and the time the machine needs to be working.
Tell dispatch before the day. Soft ground where the trailer would sit can mean loading from a firmer spot nearby or picking a different day. If the machine itself has already sunk, it needs recovery first, and recovery and hauling can run as one job.
It needs to be planned for. Lines over the load spot limit where the trailer can sit and how the machine comes off. Tell us where the lines run so the load spot can be picked away from them.
The distance, the machine's weight and size, the access at each end, whether a permit or offloading is part of the job, and the timing. A site that scores clear at both ends is a simpler move than one with a tight gate and soft ground. Call with the details and dispatch can quote it.
Tell us the machine, both addresses, how the site scored and the day it has to be working, and we will plan the move with you. For a move days or weeks out, you can also send the details through our contact page.
