When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Los Angeles calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles and nearby California metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Los Angeles's ports & industry 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 Los Angeles. 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 Los Angeles, CA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Vernon industrial district south of downtown, the City of Industry business park in the San Gabriel Valley, the Alameda Corridor rail belt through Commerce and Carson, and the harbor-area industrial district near the ports. They are older multi-tenant industrial buildings in Vernon and Commerce with tight column spacing, low dock heights and narrow street access built long before modern trailer traffic — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's apparel and textile manufacturing, aerospace component manufacturing, food and beverage processing, and furniture and cabinetry manufacturing.
Plenty of Los Angeles, CA work — ports & industry — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these CA and regional markets:
Los Angeles's industrial base — ports & industry — 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 Los Angeles customers include:
A Los Angeles lift list usually runs to industrial sewing and cutting equipment, CNC machining centers, injection molding machines, and food processing lines, 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 Los Angeles metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Los Angeles metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Los Angeles metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Los Angeles metro.
Plenty of Los Angeles jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-5, I-10, I-15 and I-80, 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 Los Angeles rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF and Union Pacific, both routed through the Alameda Corridor rail expressway connecting the San Pedro Bay ports to the transcontinental rail yards near downtown. The adjoining Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach form the busiest container port complex in the country, handling containerized and breakbulk cargo. Add I-5, I-10, I-15 and I-80 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Los Angeles plant can leave on a trailer, in a rail car, or over water — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging job in Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Los Angeles crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Los Angeles? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Los Angeles, CA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Los Angeles and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Long Beach | Los Angeles County | 20 mi |
| Anaheim | Orange County | 24 mi |
| Santa Ana | Orange County | 30 mi |
| Glendale | Los Angeles County | 6 mi |
| Pasadena | Los Angeles County | 9 mi |
| Torrance | Los Angeles County | 16 mi |
| Pomona | Los Angeles County | 28 mi |
| Ontario | San Bernardino County | 34 mi |
| Carson | Los Angeles County | 15 mi |
| City of Industry | — | — |
| Santa Fe Springs | Los Angeles County | 12 mi |
| Vernon | Los Angeles County | 3 mi |
| Riverside | Riverside County | 49 mi |
| Irvine | Orange County | 36 mi |
| Fontana | San Bernardino County | 46 mi |
| Huntington Beach | Orange County | 31 mi |
| Santa Clarita | Los Angeles County | 29 mi |
| Garden Grove | Orange County | 26 mi |
| Rancho Cucamonga | San Bernardino County | 37 mi |
| Corona | Riverside County | 41 mi |
| Lancaster | Los Angeles County | 45 mi |
| Palmdale | Los Angeles County | 37 mi |
| Valencia | Los Angeles County | 34 mi |
| Orange | Orange County | 29 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Los Angeles services, Industrial Rigging across California or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across California — pick the nearest crew:
Most Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Los Angeles →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Los Angeles.
machine tool movers in Los Angeles →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Los Angeles plants.
Los Angeles plant relocation →In Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles.
The same Los Angeles crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Los Angeles: 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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