The platform is designed to raise up and down for transport via use of a hydraulic cylinder with hand pump, so no electrical needed. Some companies use a hot shot service to tow the unit to the site which can reduce transport cost and there is no need to load the unit on a flatbed or cost to unload the unit once at site. With this design, the trailer can be moved by a pickup truck from the factory to the site if one wished to. Instead of using a fixed platform that has to be removed, use a platform that rotates and collapses down, mounted to a DOT approved trailer for over the road transport (see Fig. Is there a way to reduce this cost – yes. On the low side, taking the initial delivery, setting it up and then relocating it just one time puts us at $18,000.00
That same $6,000.00 to $8,000.00 has to now be spent twice more – once to take the unit apart and load on a flat bed and again to unload and re-assemble the unit at the new site. Cost to do the job vary around the country, but discussions with multiple clients puts the range from $6,000.00 to $8,000.00. More cost now come if/when you are ready to move the unit to another location.
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On arrival additional money must be spent to now assemble the unit at site, requiring a fork lift and or boom truck to unload the unit and lift the equipment onto the mobile trailer, man lift, associated tools, sometimes generator power, 2-3 man crew. Because the platform is fixed to a trailer and the height exceeds the 13’-6” DOT height restriction for shipping down the road, the transload unit, and its platform must be shipped on a flatbed truck to the job site. However, let’s look at where the additional cost of ownership, above and beyond that of the actual transload unit, can increases when it’s time to move the unit to another site and how we can minimize it.įrom the day the transload unit leaves the factory, the cost to move the unit begins. The fixed platform with stair unit, that the gangway and safety cage is mounted to, used to get on top of the car, is bolted to a trailer and moved around a yard from car to car and typically pulled by a heavy duty truck. The transload unit will also have equipment such as pumps, compressors, controls and meters used for loading or unloading. This is a common setup used to load or offload between rail cars and trucks where top access is required to open domes for filling and or venting, connect hoses or insert loading arms. The need to move into the market quickly once contracts are negotiated has remained consistent, and the need to utilize the asset at multiple sites is increasing, with moving the mobile transloader an area that can be costly and a logistics challenge.įor this discussion, we will assume this is a mobile transload unit with a fixed platform and stair, and uses a gangway with safety cage for safe access and fall protection. There is an increasing demand to utilize mobile transloading units to move products like propane, butane, crude oil, condensates, ethanol, bio-diesel and refined fuels all over the USA and Mexico, between rail cars and trucks.
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