Cargo a Standard Trailer Cannot Take
Heavy Equipment and Machinery Transport
Once a load is too heavy, too tall or too wide for a curtainsider, the job stops being about the truck and becomes about the trailer, the lift and the route. Cannata handles all three: the right deck under the cargo, the lifting equipment at each end, and a route planned around the height and weight limits along it. Part of our land transportation services. Moving plant is as much a permits-and-route question as a lifting one, which we cover in heavy equipment and machinery transport in the UAE.
What We Move
Plant, Machinery and Oversized Loads
If it needs a crane to load or a low-bed to carry, it belongs here rather than on a general freight booking.
- Construction plant and earth-moving equipment
- Factory machinery and production lines
- Generators, transformers and industrial units
- Structural steel and fabricated sections
- Project cargo for site delivery
- Equipment relocations between UAE sites
Moving Something Heavy?
Send us the weight, the dimensions and the two addresses
Get a Heavy Transport Quote Call +971 4 239 7107What Decides How a Heavy Load Moves
Heavy transport is quoted on four variables, and getting them right at the enquiry stage is what keeps a job to one visit.
Weight and dimensions
Total weight plus the length, width and height of the largest piece. Those numbers decide the trailer - flatbed, extendable or low-bed - and whether the load is classed as oversized.
Lifting at both ends
How the item is loaded and unloaded. Some sites have their own crane or forklift; where they do not, we bring the lifting equipment as part of the job.
Route and access
Height and weight limits, and whether the delivery site can take a long vehicle. An access check before the day is cheaper than a truck that cannot turn in.
Permits and escorts
Oversized movements need authority approval and, above certain dimensions, escort vehicles. We arrange these rather than leaving them with you - including on cross-border runs into the GCC.
Equipment for the Job
Trailers and Lifting We Bring
The deck is matched to the cargo rather than the other way round.
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Low-beds and extendable trailers
For tall or long items where deck height and length decide whether the load is legal on the route.
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Flatbeds and step decks
For steel, structures and machinery that is heavy but within standard height.
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Cranes and forklifts
Lifting arranged at collection and delivery where the site cannot handle the item itself, including collection from a supplier.
Why Cannata
One Contractor for Truck, Crane and Permit
Heavy moves usually involve a haulier, a lifting company and a permit agent. Splitting them is how delivery dates slip.
Lifting included
Cranes and forklifts arranged as part of the move, not booked separately by you and hoped to arrive on the same day.
Our own fleet
Trailers allocated from our own vehicles, so the deck you were quoted is the deck that arrives.
Route planned first
Height, weight and access checked before the day, which is when an oversized job either works or does not.
Rate Request
Get a price for this shipment
Give us the route and the cargo and we will come back with a rate, usually within one working day.
Our FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What customers ask before booking heavy or oversized transport.
