Proforma Safety Performs Highly Specialized, Highly Demanding Heavy Load Escorts
Posted by proforma on January 10, 2008 | No Comments
Proforma Safety International (PSI) offers a unique service to various industries that transport over-sized* loads on highways across the United States and Canada. Proforma Safety CEO Mike Arnold reports a significant number of record heavy-haul moves were executed in 2007 by Proforma.
“These oversized heavy loads requiring special equipment to transport,” he explained. “Our special equipped S.W.A.T. (Safe Work Awareness Team) escort units helped several major oil companies and fabricating facilities transport double oversized loads to south Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and Oregon.”
These are the kinds of loads that you dread having to pass on the road.
“When it hangs over the width of the trailer several feet, takes two trailers in tandem to haul and is taller in height than most overpasses, bridges and power lines, some special considerations and planning are implemented to get equipment or structures from one place to another,” says Arnold.
Each Proforma Safety S.W.A.T. unit is fully equipped with hands-free radios that communicate with other escort units, the driver(s) of the transport trucks, local and state law enforcement units and various DOT, weather and road condition reporting agencies. All S.W.A.T. units have overhead 360 emergency lights, a full array of grill and tailgate mounted warning and signaling devices, two high-decibel sirens, GPS, video cameras front and back and radar with forward and rear-facing antennas. Each unit is high visibility marked for moving traffic to the side of the road, providing maximum safety margins when transporting oversized loads that extend over several traffic lanes.
“Although permit loads are routed over rural roads, less traveled highways, routes that have few bridges or overpasses and on special permit corridors, people and traffic have to warned and moved to the side long before the transport load reaches them,” says Arnold. “The public’s safety is our first concern. Damage to equipment and property comes second.”
Proforma Safety uses highly experienced safety professionals and advisors (in some cases, former State Police or ex-USDOT agents) for their S.W.A.T. units. These experts are familiar with all local, state and federal rules, regulations and laws.
“If it’s got to go over a roadway and it’s got a size stipulation, we can sure see that it gets to its final destination safely with no damage to the load, no harm to the public or costly impact to anyone’s property,” says Arnold.
* State and federal permitted over-road transport
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