Flatbed
Loads from any side, by forklift or crane. Where most oversize freight starts.
Equipment and services
Seven decks, three countries, one dispatcher.
Send the length, the width, the height and the weight. We come back with the deck it rides on, the route it takes and the permits it needs.
Specialised
Straight through the border, without transloading.
Silence Lines is an experienced freight carrier specialised in heavy hauling and oversized loads from the United States and Canada into Mexico, and back the other way.
The load stays on the deck it started on. Brokerage on both sides of the line and drivers already holding the paperwork mean your freight clears once and keeps moving.
The fleet
Pick the deck
Every figure below is a legal limit. Above it, the load moves on a permit, which we handle.
Step deck
A dropped rear deck buys height without a permit. Ramps for anything that drives on.
Double drop
A well between two raised decks, for freight over legal height standing still.
RGN lowboy
The gooseneck detaches and the front of the deck becomes the ramp. Add axles, raise the ceiling.
Dry van
Enclosed on all sides, for freight that cannot see weather or daylight.
Curtain side
A sliding tarp that protects freight without touching it and opens from front, back or either side.
Multi-axle
Dual-lane trailers spread the load across enough wheels to satisfy the bridge formula.
Capability
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0ft Longest dual-lane configuration we run
0axles Spread where the bridge formula demands it
0countries Canada, the United States and Mexico
International
Borders and oceans, one point of contact.
If you need to get product somewhere, chances are we have been there: Mexico, Canada, Asia or Europe. We partner only with the best in Mexican and Canadian customs brokerage, so border crossings are expedited rather than endured.
Boat transport
Every state writes its own rules. We keep up with all of them.
Fully licensed and current on the state and federal DOT requirements for moving a vessel. More to the point, we understand the planning it takes, and the permits vary from state to state.
Hazardous materials
All fourteen placard classes.
Hazardous freight can be solid, liquid or gas, and flammable, toxic, explosive, radioactive or biohazardous. It travels under specific rules in every country we run in, with the protective equipment and the precautions those rules require.
Placard classes we carry
- Explosives
- Flammable gas
- Non-flammable gas
- Poison gas
- Flammable liquid
- Flammable solid
- Spontaneously combustible
- Dangerous when wet
- Oxidizer
- Organic peroxide
- Infectious substance
- Radioactive
- Corrosive
- Class 9
Clear the border once.
Yards in Michigan and in Laredo, on the busiest land port between the two countries.
- No transload at the line
- Brokerage on both sides
- Security programmes in all three countries