When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Reno calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Reno 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 Reno, NV 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 Reno and nearby Nevada metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Reno's distribution & Tahoe-Reno gigafactory cluster 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 Reno. 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 Reno, NV is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in Storey County east of Reno and Union Pacific's Sparks Yard classification and intermodal district. They are large-format, tilt-up distribution and manufacturing buildings concentrated in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center rather than an older urban industrial core — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's battery and EV component manufacturing, e-commerce warehousing and fulfillment, building products manufacturing, and cold-storage and food distribution.
Reno, NV runs on distribution & Tahoe-Reno gigafactory cluster, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Reno's industrial base — distribution & Tahoe-Reno gigafactory cluster — 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 Reno customers include:
A Reno lift list usually runs to battery and cell-assembly equipment, large-scale material-handling and conveyor systems, cold-storage refrigeration equipment, and packaging and palletizing equipment, 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 Reno metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Reno metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Reno metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Reno metro.
Plenty of Reno jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down 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 Reno rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by Union Pacific, which owns and operates the historic Overland Route through Reno and Sparks and controls the Sparks classification and intermodal yard, with BNSF holding trackage rights across the line. Add I-15 and I-80 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Reno 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 Reno, NV 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 Reno jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Reno crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Reno? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Reno, NV and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Reno and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Sparks | Washoe County | 3 mi |
| Carson City | Carson City County | 25 mi |
| Fernley | Lyon County | 30 mi |
| Sun Valley | Washoe County | 5 mi |
| Spanish Springs | Washoe County | 10 mi |
| Fallon | Churchill County | 55 mi |
| Dayton | Lyon County | 23 mi |
| Gardnerville | Douglas County | 41 mi |
| Cold Springs | Washoe County | 14 mi |
| South Lake Tahoe, CA | El Dorado County | 42 mi |
| Truckee, CA | Nevada County | 24 mi |
| Gardnerville Ranchos | Douglas County | 45 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Reno services, Industrial Rigging across Nevada or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Nevada — pick the nearest crew:
Most Reno 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 Reno as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Reno →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Reno.
machine tool movers in Reno →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Reno plants.
Reno plant relocation →In Reno 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 Reno.
The same Reno crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Specialty rigging in Reno: chiller and HVAC rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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