Every hour a Memphis production floor sits idle costs money. From distribution and manufacturing plants to job shops, we rig, haul, and set industrial machinery across the Memphis metro — one accountable crew from disconnect to re-level, built to get your line back up on schedule.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides machinery moving in Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro. We disconnect, rig, haul, and re-level presses, generators, compressors, and full production lines as one accountable job. Our crews work across Memphis and nearby Tennessee metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Most machinery moves fail in the gaps — the rigger who only lifts, the carrier who only drives, the installer who shows up to a machine that was moved wrong. Across Memphis's America's distribution crossroads base, Badass Logistics closes those gaps by running rigging, transport, and reinstallation as one job with one crew.
Presses, generators, compressors, production lines, a single machine between bays or a full plant relocation — we plan it on paper first, move it on air skates and air-ride, and set and level it to spec at the new floor. Moving to another facility? It runs as project freight inside the same plan — no hand-off.
The machinery work in Memphis is concentrated where the floor space is — the Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park on President's Island, the Memphis International Airport air-cargo corridor, and the President's Island Mississippi River industrial district. What sits inside follows what the metro actually builds: distribution and air-cargo logistics, food and agricultural processing, chemical manufacturing, and agricultural equipment manufacturing. The buildings are large single-storey clear-span distribution buildings around the airport corridor alongside older industrial buildings on President's Island built around barge and rail-served docks, and that is usually what decides whether a machine rolls out through a dock door on skates or has to come apart on the floor first.
Plenty of Memphis, TN work — America's distribution crossroads — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same machinery moving crews through these TN and regional markets:
Memphis's industrial base — America's distribution crossroads — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Most work happens around live distribution and production operations that can't stop for the move. Typical machinery moves for Memphis customers include:
On Memphis floors that most often means material handling conveyors, palletizers and sortation equipment, food processing lines, and grain and bulk handling equipment — each with its own lift points, its own disconnect list, and its own reason it can't be handled like palletised freight.
Stamping presses, press brakes, shears, and injection molding machines across the Memphis metro.
Generator sets, compressors, switchgear, and plant utilities across the Memphis metro.
VMCs, lathes, and machining centers — see CNC moving across the Memphis metro.
Full lines and multi-machine cells, sequenced around production across the Memphis metro.
Plenty of Memphis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian National, CSX and Norfolk Southern, making Memphis one of only a few US metros with five Class I railroads, with Canadian National operating its second-largest classification yard in the country here. The Port of Memphis on the Mississippi River at President's Island is one of the largest inland ports in the country, handling bulk grain, fertilizer and industrial cargo by barge. With I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75 carrying the over-the-road legs, a machine leaving a Memphis plant has more than one viable routing — and the crating and load plan get built around whichever one it is, not the other way round.
Every machinery moving job in Memphis, TN is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Memphis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Memphis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Memphis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Machinery Moving throughout Memphis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Bartlett | Shelby County | 11 mi |
| Germantown | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Collierville | Shelby County | 23 mi |
| Southaven, MS | DeSoto County | 11 mi |
| Olive Branch, MS | DeSoto County | 18 mi |
| Millington | Shelby County | 16 mi |
| Horn Lake, MS | DeSoto County | 13 mi |
| West Memphis, AR | Crittenden County | 8 mi |
| Cordova | Shelby County | 15 mi |
| Ellendale | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Hernando, MS | DeSoto County | 23 mi |
| Forrest City, AR | St. Francis County | 43 mi |
| Lakeland | Shelby County | 18 mi |
| Marion, AR | Crittenden County | 10 mi |
| Arlington | Shelby County | 24 mi |
| Atoka | Tipton County | 25 mi |
| Covington | Tipton County | 37 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Memphis services, Machinery Movers across Tennessee or get a quote.
We run machinery moving in metros across Tennessee — pick the nearest crew:
Most Memphis jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Memphis crew.
Memphis industrial rigging →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Memphis.
Memphis CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Memphis plants.
factory relocation in Memphis →In Memphis we also run riggers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Memphis.
The same Memphis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Memphis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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