Not Your Mother’s Maytag

June 7, 2000 10:16 AM, EDT

Most shippers would be outraged if a trucker took three days to make move two dryers 100 miles, but then again your average Maytag is not 20 feet tall.

	Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting
	The biggest challenge for Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting was coordinating the work of utility companies to get the massive paper dryers past a maze of power lines.

Weaving two industrial- strength paper dryers from the port of Milwaukee to Beloit, Wis., through narrow roads and intersections and under a web of power lines that had to be lifted by an army of utility workers earned Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting recognition from the Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association.

The organization presented its Trucking Hauling Job of the Year award to the carrier during a recent meeting in Napa Valley, Calif.

Neil Perkins, president of the specialized carrier in Farmington, Minn., said the single biggest challenge was coordinating all the utility companies that had to help get the dryers through a maze of power lines.

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