Top-Tier Pilot Car Services in Calgary
As wide and heavy load shipment in Calgary remains stress-free with Heavy Hauler's consistent innovativeness and experience, our experts stay flexible and skillfully adapt modern technology in our services, as observed in our pilot car services. We focus on developing workable and affordable strategies, ensuring safety remains the cornerstone of our wide-load escort services. Heavy Haulers have a 14-year track record with unmatched Calgary escort vehicle services. These solutions and experts give you honest, trusted, skilled, licensed, and insured professionals ready to deliver your equipment safely and as scheduled.
Your assigned agent will guide your shipment process and allocate a suitable pilot vehicle according to your shipping preferences. The specialist understands all Calgary heavy and wide-load shipping laws and regulations and will help you get all the required permits and documents associated with oversized load pilot cars. While we provide our top-tier escort vehicle solutions that include lead and chase cars, Heavy Haulers ensure that our vehicles meet the standard requirements, such as installing warning signs, flags, flashing lights and strobe, a height pole, and more. When hauling heavy loads containing hazardous materials, we equip our vehicles and divers with first aid kits, masks, protective clothing, gloves, and other safety equipment.
Trustworthy Wide Load Escort Services in Calgary
Heavy Haulers understand the complexity of hauling wide, heavy, and abnormal loads, so giving you trustworthy oversized cargo pilot car services is a top priority. Navigating heavy and wide loads on Calgary routes requires expertise and experience, which you get from our professional team. However, trust and honesty are key features of dependable pilot vehicle services. Working with Heavy Haulers gives you focused and determined professionals who work round the clock to give you affordable, timely, and trustworthy wide-load escort services.
When shipping heavy equipment for our B2C and B2B clients, we use modern technology to provide real-time updates and tracking to keep our services as honest as possible. As we endeavor to prevent delivery delays, you can trust Heavy Haulers to safely transport your load to anywhere in Calgary and beyond, guided by our top-ranked oversized load escort cars.
Our trustworthy and top-tier Calgary escort vehicle services:
- Help coordinate and control traffic in authorized areas
- Assist in route planning
- Warn and alert other road users of the oncoming wide and heavy load shipment
- Assist the truck driver in navigating busy regions and other obstacles
- Coordinate with the shipping crew to ensure safe and timely delivery of your heavy load
We are Calgary's industry-leading, skilled, and oversized load pilot car provider. Reach out today and haul your heavy load safely as scheduled.
Pilot Car Services Offered By Heavy Haulers
Heavy Haulers provides top pilot car services in Calgary. Partner with Heavy Haulers for the following escort vehicle services:
- • Bucket Truck Services
- • Chase Cars
- • High Poles/Height Poles
- • Pilot Car Flagging
- • Lead Escort Cars
- • Rear Escort Cars
- • Route Surveys
- • TWIC Port Escorts
- • Super Load Escorts
Call and speak with one of our expert pilot car specialists to find the right service for your oversize load! (800) 908-6206
Calgary Pilot Car Requirements
- Height Requirements:
- • High loads: Generally, pilot cars are not required due to designated high load corridors. Check the Alberta DOT high load corridor page for specific routes.
- Width Requirements:
- • Shipments wider than 3.85 meters (12 feet, 7 inches) on single-lane roads: Require a front pilot car.
- • Shipments wider than 3.85 meters on multi-lane roads: Require a rear pilot car.
- • Shipments wider than 4.45 meters (14 feet, 6 inches) on single-lane roads: Require both front and rear pilot cars.
- • Shipments wider than 5.5 meters (18 feet, 2 inches) on all roads: Require both front and rear pilot cars.
- Length Requirements:
- • Shipments exceeding 34 meters (112 feet, 2 inches): Require a rear pilot car on single-lane roads.
- • Shipments over 38 meters (125 feet, 5 inches): Require both a front pilot car and a rear pilot car.
- Weight Requirements:
- • Weight: No specific pilot car requirements based on weight as long as normal minimum highway speeds are maintained.
- Overhang Requirements:
- • Overhang exceeding 6.5 meters (21 feet, 5 inches): Require a rear pilot car on all roads.
- • Overhang exceeding 9 meters (29 feet, 8 inches): Require both front and rear pilot cars.
- Additional Pilot Car Equipment Requirements:
- • Sign Box: Must measure at least 180 cm x 35 cm x 10 cm (72″ x 14″ x 4″), lighted, and visible from at least 200 meters (656 feet). It should display "LONG LOAD," "WIDE LOAD," "OVERSIZE LOAD," or a red and white “D” sign.
- • Lights: Two 175 mm (7 inch) diameter flashing lights on the top of the sign box, and two 203 mm (8 inches) amber rotating or strobing lights between the flashing lights.
- • Communication: Two-way radio communication must be maintained between each of the vehicles at all times.
- • Distance: A pilot vehicle must precede the overdimensional vehicle by 300 to 1000 meters, and a trail vehicle must follow by 100 to 300 meters.
- Special Stipulations:
- • Flags and Lights:
- • Width over 2.6 meters (8 feet, 6 inches): Equipped with warning flags during daylight and warning lights during darkness or adverse weather.
- • Width over 3.05 meters (10 feet): Dimensional signs displayed at the front and rear.
- • Width over 3.35 meters (11 feet): Equipped with one or more flashing lights.
- • Width over 3.85 meters (12 feet, 7 inches): Pilot and trail vehicles required depending on road type and width.
- • Operational Restrictions:
- • No operation from 3 PM until midnight on Fridays or days preceding statutory holidays, or on Sundays or statutory holidays
- • Dimensional signs must be kept clean, legible, and covered or removed when not in use.
- • Escort Vehicles:
- • Must not tow any trailers or carry loads that obscure required lights or signs.
- • Must carry an advance warning triangle, three warning flags, a warning flag per crew member, reflective vests, flashlights with signal tubes, and maintain all equipment in good repair.
- • Safety Protocols:
- • When engaged outside the cab, operators must wear reflective vests and use warning flags or flashlights as needed to manage traffic.
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