Badass Logistics now operates 88 service locations covering all 50 US states. Four years after the company was established in Kalispell, Montana, a plant manager in Georgia, a hospital facilities director in Oregon and a fabricator in Maine can all book the same thing: an industrial rigging and heavy haul crew that takes the move from rig-down to set-in-place without handing it to anyone else.
The number that matters here is not 88. It is one — the number of vendors a customer deals with per move. Coverage was built specifically so that Badass Logistics' rigging and heavy haul operation could keep that promise on a machine move in any state, not just near its Montana base.
What a service location actually does
Each location gives the dispatch team a point from which a crew can reach a job with rigging gear, transport equipment and local route knowledge. That matters for two practical reasons. First, response time: crews are on call around the clock, and same-day quotes are typical because an estimator does not need to fly across the country to price a move. Second, routing: oversize and overweight permits are issued state by state, and a network that already works in all 50 states has current knowledge of each state's dimensional thresholds, curfews and escort rules rather than discovering them per project.
The capacity envelope
Why single-vendor accountability is the product
A conventional oversize move is split across contractors: a rigging outfit takes the machine off its foundation, a carrier hauls it, a permit service files the paperwork, and an escort company shadows the trailer. Each contract ends where the next begins, and that is exactly where moves go wrong. The crane crew finishes and leaves; the truck arrives late and the load sits exposed. The carrier discovers the permit was filed against the wrong axle configuration. Damage is found at the destination and every party can point at another.
Badass Logistics was founded to remove those gaps. The crew that unbolts and lifts the machine is the same organisation that secures it for transport, files the permits against the actual trailer configuration, plans the route and sets the machine on its new foundation. When something shifts — weather, a closed route, a late site — one dispatcher re-sequences the whole job instead of four vendors renegotiating with each other.
One crew for the whole move. If we lift it, we haul it, and we set it — there is no gap in the middle for a problem to fall into.
The mechanics of that operating model — and the specific failure points it removes — are covered in more depth in our deep dive on the one-crew move.
What this looks like on a real move
Take a 200,000 lb press relocating between states. Under the single-crew model, one estimator surveys both sites and prices the entire scope. The rigging plan and the transport plan are written together, so the lift points chosen at origin match how the load will sit on the trailer, and the trailer chosen matches what the destination pad can receive. Permits and routing are prepared in-house against real, measured dimensions — not figures passed along third-hand. On the day, the same company is on both ends of the phone.
For plant relocations, medical equipment installs or a single oversized load, the fastest way to test the model is to request a quote from Badass Logistics — same-day pricing is typical, and the crews run 24/7. The systems the operation runs on, including the transport management platform built by the group's own engineers, are described on the BDS technology page.