When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Allentown calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Allentown metro — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, rigged, moved, and set by one accountable crew.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides industrial rigging in Allentown, PA and the surrounding metro. We handle engineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, set and leveled to spec. Our crews work across Allentown and nearby Pennsylvania metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Allentown's Lehigh Valley logistics & manufacturing base runs on machines that can't be muscled onto a truck — presses, machining centers, transformers, and production lines that have to come off the floor, through the door, and onto a trailer without a scratch. That's rigging: engineered lifts, air skates and gantries, and a crew that measures every doorway before anything moves.
Badass Logistics rigs it like an engineering problem and runs it like a road crew across Allentown. We plan the pick, protect the floors, and set the load to spec — and when the load has to leave the building, the same team runs the move and the project freight, so it gets rigged out, delivered, and reset without a hand-off.
Rigging in Allentown, PA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park (LVIP) campuses along I-78, the Bethlehem Commerce Center on the former Bethlehem Steel site, home to the BethIntermodal rail terminal, and the Mack Trucks Lehigh Valley Operations complex in Macungie. They are large modern single-storey big-box distribution buildings built across Lehigh Valley industrial parks and the former Bethlehem Steel site, alongside older multi-storey brick steel-era buildings that remain nearby — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's heavy truck assembly, steel and metal fabrication legacy shops, warehouse and distribution operations, and confectionery and food manufacturing.
Plenty of Allentown, PA work — Lehigh Valley logistics & manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these PA and regional markets:
Allentown's industrial base — Lehigh Valley logistics & manufacturing — 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 rigging jobs for Allentown customers include:
A Allentown lift list usually runs to heavy truck cab and chassis assembly lines, engine grooming and truck modification equipment, material handling and conveyor systems, and CNC machining centers, and each one changes the rig: where it can be picked, what it cannot be set down on, and how much of it has to come apart to clear a doorway.
Setting and leveling machinery onto pads and foundations to spec across the Allentown metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Allentown metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Allentown metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Allentown metro.
Plenty of Allentown jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95, 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.
Not every Allentown rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by Norfolk Southern and Canadian Pacific, with the BethIntermodal terminal at the Bethlehem Commerce Center handling rail-to-truck transfers. Add I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Allentown plant can leave on a trailer or in a rail car — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging job in Allentown, PA 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 Allentown jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Allentown crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Allentown? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Allentown, PA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Allentown and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Bethlehem | Northampton County | 6 mi |
| Easton | Northampton County | 15 mi |
| Emmaus | Lehigh County | 5 mi |
| Whitehall, NJ | Sussex County | 46 mi |
| Nazareth | Northampton County | 13 mi |
| Hellertown | Northampton County | 8 mi |
| Macungie | Lehigh County | 7 mi |
| Northampton | Northampton County | 5 mi |
| Catasauqua | Lehigh County | 3 mi |
| Philadelphia | Philadelphia County | 49 mi |
| Trenton, NJ | Mercer County | 48 mi |
| Reading | Berks County | 30 mi |
| Bensalem | Bucks County | 45 mi |
| Abington | Montgomery County | 39 mi |
| Levittown | Bucks County | 47 mi |
| Havertown | Delaware County | 44 mi |
| Bridgewater, NJ | Somerset County | 44 mi |
| Wilkes-Barre | Luzerne County | 49 mi |
| Hillsborough, NJ | Somerset County | 46 mi |
| Ewing, NJ | Mercer County | 43 mi |
| Norristown | Montgomery County | 35 mi |
| Wayne | Delaware County | 39 mi |
| Radnor | Delaware County | 39 mi |
| Princeton, NJ | Mercer County | 47 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Allentown services, Industrial Rigging across Pennsylvania or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Pennsylvania — pick the nearest crew:
Most Allentown 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.
Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Allentown as one accountable job.
Allentown machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Allentown.
Allentown CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Allentown plants.
plant relocation in Allentown →In Allentown we also run machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Allentown.
The same Allentown crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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