(414) 279-5510 Call Heavy Equipment Hauling · New Berlin, Waukesha County
A loader sunk to the axles in mud, a dozer that has to be on the next New Berlin site by Monday, a forklift that won't start, or a dealer machine due for delivery — MKE Towing & Recovery hauls and recovers excavators, dozers, loaders, forklifts, skid steers & more on lowboy, RGN, Landoll & double-drop trailers, fully insured. Drive-on if it runs, winch-on if it doesn't, recovered with a wrecker or rotator if it's down. Oversize permits handled, ~30-min typical response on downtime calls, flat price quoted before we roll.
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Flat price quoted before we roll — we show the factors, never fabricate a number. COI on request.
Need a machine moved, recovered, or delivered in New Berlin? MKE Towing & Recovery hauls excavators, dozers, loaders, forklifts, skid steers & more — drive-on if it runs, winch-on if it's disabled, recovered with a wrecker or rotator if it's stuck, sunk, or overturned — on lowboy, RGN, Landoll & double-drop trailers, fully insured. We pull your oversize permits and confirm a flat price before we roll. Call (414) 279-5510.
An idle crew and a downed machine both cost money by the hour. Tell dispatch the make, model, weight, where it is, and whether it drives or has to be winched — a real New Berlin dispatcher answers live and we bring the right rig the first time.
Local to New Berlin
Here's how we run heavy equipment transport in New Berlin, Waukesha County — the corridors we run, the industrial areas we serve, and how fast a rig reaches you.
Trouble spots, in order: I-43 (the Rock Freeway) across the city's southeast, worst near the Moorland Road, Racine Avenue / County Y and National Avenue interchanges (Exits 57, 54 and 59), mornings 7–9 and afternoons 4–6. Truck volume: heavy commercial rigs concentrate around the New Berlin Industrial Park in the city's north. Surface arterials — most of them county trunk highways — carry the rest: Moorland Road (CTH-O), National Avenue (CTH-ES), West Cleveland Avenue (CTH-D), Greenfield Avenue (WIS-59) and Racine Avenue (CTH-Y). The signalized choke points cluster on Moorland at Cleveland and at Grange; several big arterial crossings (Barker & Greenfield, Moorland & Beloit, Calhoun & Beloit) are uncontrolled or stop-controlled.
Coverage spans both counties, and New Berlin is a 12-mile run from our yard — the dispatcher reads you the live ETA.
From New Berlin Industrial Park out to I-43, New Berlin keeps the job sites, plants, and rental yards busy — and with them, machines bogged in soft fill, units relocating between sites, and dealer deliveries. Our trucks come through the I-43 ramps, and we recover and haul them, pulling any WisDOT oversize permit before the load moves. We run the Moorland Road (CTH-O) retail corridor, National Avenue (CTH-ES) corridor, and Greenfield Avenue (WIS-59) corridor and the streets between them — New Berlin equipment work, day or night.
Winter ice & snow (Nov–Mar) — I-43 (the Rock Freeway) overpasses and ramps freeze first
Wisconsin's legal limits on the interstate run 8'6" wide, 13'6" high, and 80,000 lb gross — anything over needs a WisDOT oversize/overweight permit, and we pull it.
Wisconsin's spring thaw brings posted weight restrictions (“frost laws”) on local roads from roughly March into April — we know which routes are posted and plan the legal way in.
Lake Michigan sits roughly 13 miles east, which buys New Berlin some relief from direct lake-effect snow — not immunity, and less than the lakeshore suburbs get. Heavy snow still lands. Freeze-thaw cycles still chew pavement. Morning fog settles along the I-43 and Moorland Road corridors. Baseline: humid continental, the inland southeastern Wisconsin standard — cold winters heavy with snow, warm and humid summers.
Serving New Berlin ZIP codes: 53146 · 53151
Sound familiar?
A loader buried to the axles, a dozer in a trench, a machine off a creek bank. We winch it out first — a wrecker or rotator on the heavy ones — then load.
A dozer or excavator due on the next New Berlin-area site by Monday so the crew isn’t idle. Lowboy or RGN, secure, permit, deliver metro-wide — scheduled and insured.
Won't start, hydraulics down, a track thrown, no drive. We winch it onto a Landoll or lowboy to the shop or dealer — never towed dead on its tracks or wheels.
A new, used, or rented machine dropped or picked up with the clock running. On-time, oversize permit pulled, COI on request for the yard’s file.
A machine on its side or rolled in a trench. We upright it with a wrecker or rotator and rated rigging on a plan, then load — without adding damage.
Bought at auction or online, or coming off lease. We pick up, permit, secure, and deliver — mini to superload, every brand.
Running or not, we load it
A running machine drives up the ramp or over the RGN neck under control, attachments lowered, then chained at the factory tie-down points.
Call dispatch — (414) 279-5510A dead machine comes up a rated winch line onto a Landoll or lowboy. We never tow heavy equipment on its own tracks or wheels — it’s carried, not towed.
Call dispatch — (414) 279-5510Sunk, bogged, or overturned, we winch it out or right it with a wrecker or rotator and rated rigging on a plan, inspect, then load and secure.
Call dispatch — (414) 279-5510Do you handle mine? Almost certainly.
Tracked machines from minis to mass-excavation class — boom and blade down, tracks walked on slow, lowboy or RGN sized to the weight.
Wheel loaders, backhoes, and graders — driven on or winched, bucket and attachments lowered, chained at factory tie-down points.
Forklifts, telehandlers, skid steers, and compact track loaders ride a rollback, Landoll, or equipment trailer — running or dead.
Cranes, aerial lifts, paving and ag equipment, and superloads move on a multi-axle lowboy with a permit, route survey, and escorts.
What heavy equipment transport covers
Heavy equipment is carried, not towed — never dragged on its tracks or wheels. We drive-on or winch-on to rated points, recover first when it's down, and right-size the trailer to the machine.
A picker, not a promise — the final trailer and permit are confirmed from the exact weight, attachments, height, and route on the call.
Secured, not dragged
Blade, boom, bucket, or forks lowered and the load kept low, then grade-70 chain at the factory tie-down points — rated to the real weight.
House swing and track travel locks are set so nothing rotates or creeps on an I-43 haul.
Tracks and tires are walked on slow over a steel deck, the undercarriage protected — carried, not towed.
Oversize, overweight, and superload permits, route surveys, and escorts are arranged before the move — our paperwork, not yours.
What it costs & why
A New Berlin equipment haul is a flat price quoted before we roll — a compact machine that drives on for a local move is the low end; a large machine mud-recovered and moved as a permitted superload is the high end. We show the factors and the flat price holds.
The flat price covers the dispatch and haul, quoted before a truck leaves. Recovery, permits, escorts, and any disassembly are itemized and confirmed up front — no lowball-then-add-on.
Get your New Berlin priceBallpark it now — live estimate
A compact loader and a 40-ton dozer are different hauls — trailer, tractor, and rigging are sized to the real weight.
A machine that drives on loads fast; a dead or stuck one is billed by the winch and recovery work it takes.
Over legal gets the WisDOT permit, a route survey, and any pilot-car escorts — quoted up front.
A soft pad, a tight gate, or a long haul across Waukesha County adds time and gear over a clean curbside load.
Getting help in New Berlin
Tell dispatch the make, model, weight class, and whether it drives. We confirm the lowboy or RGN, rigging, and any permit before a truck leaves New Berlin.
Sunk, bogged, or overturned machines are winched out or righted with a wrecker or rotator and rated rigging before anything goes on the deck.
Runners drive up the ramp or over the RGN neck; dead units come up on a rated winch line onto a Landoll. Never towed on tracks or wheels.
Attachments lowered, travel and swing locks set, grade-70 chain at the factory tie-down points, sized to the real weight.
To the next site, yard, dealer, or shop — with clean paperwork and a COI for your file.
Why New Berlin crews call MKE
A real ETA from the closest unit on a downtime or recovery call — not a canned promise.
Rollback to multi-axle lowboy, with a wrecker and rotator for recovery — the right rig the first time.
Years of equipment moves across Milwaukee and Waukesha. Licensed & Insured — USDOT# 4272551.
We pull the WisDOT oversize/overweight and superload permits, survey the route, and arrange escorts.
Heavy Equipment Hauling in New Berlin
Same-day for most moves, staged from our South Side yard ~12 miles away. New Berlin's work sites — the industrial park, west-side site development, and municipal projects — are all reachable off the Rock Freeway and Moorland Road, so deliveries and site moves land on schedule. Call (414) 279-5510 24/7.
Transport starts at $150 for units to 10,000 lbs and $250 for 10–15,000 lbs; anything over 10,000 lbs gets a crane and special-gear assessment up front, and bigger loads are quoted by weight, distance and permits before we roll. Call (414) 279-5510 for a scoped price.
Dozers, wheel loaders, backhoes, telehandlers, compactors, chippers and attachments — winched, driven or craned onto a rollback, Landoll or lowboy and chained to rated points. Industrial-park machinery, municipal projects and site-development gear: all routine. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes. Over-legal loads move on a WisDOT oversize/overweight permit with a surveyed route — which matters here, where West Small Road's 10-ton limit and the 13'6" clearance near Moorland & Grange force heavy iron onto the Rock Freeway and the main county-trunk arterials. Escorts arranged where required; the paperwork is on us. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes — a dead machine at the industrial park, a municipal yard or a job site gets rigged to rated points, winched or craned aboard, and hauled to your yard or the dealer. Tell dispatch the machine, weight class and access so the right trailer comes. Call (414) 279-5510.
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One call reaches a live dispatcher — lowboy, RGN, Landoll, or double-drop, wrecker and rotator recovery, oversize permits handled, a ~30-min typical response on New Berlin downtime calls, and a flat price quoted before we roll.