Modular moving questions people actually ask.
Costs, permits, timelines, and what moves. If yours is not here, call (318) 707-0552 and ask directly.
What does it cost to move a modular building around Shreveport?
The numbers are published: single-module local moves $1,800 to $4,500, portable classrooms $4,000 to $9,000 per module moved and set, wellsite offices $2,200 to $5,500 between leases, skid units $2,500 to $7,000 lifted and hauled, with permits at $150 to $500 and escorts at $2.50 to $4.00 per mile per car when width requires them. The cost guide carries every line and the invoice matches the quote.
How long does a move take from booking to done?
Local single-unit moves typically finish inside a week of booking: route survey and permit early in the week, teardown and transport late. Classroom moves run about three working days per module on site plus the permit lead. The permit is usually the pacing item, which is why the destination address is the most valuable thing you can give us early.
What kinds of buildings do you move?
Commercial modulars across the region’s working range: portable classrooms, jobsite and wellsite offices, skid-mounted control rooms and guard shacks, church annexes, clinic modules, and yard-staged units. Wheeled or skid, single or multi-module. What we do not move is site-built houses, which belong with a structural house mover.
Do you handle the oversize permits and escorts?
Yes, inside the contract: Louisiana DOTD oversize permits pulled per move, parish add-ons where routes need them, and escort cars booked to the state’s width rules. Two-state moves near the Texas line get both states’ paperwork sequenced. You never drive the process; you just get the move date it produces.
What can stop a building from being movable?
Age and condition, honestly assessed: seized running gear, rotten floors, or frames not built for the road can make a move cost more than the building is worth. Roughly nine in ten units we assess move fine after modest prep. The tenth gets told the truth in writing before anyone spends money, because a mover who will haul anything is a mover who plans nothing.
Who disconnects power and utilities?
Licensed trades, on our schedule: your electrician handles power, comm vendors pull their lines, and plumbing connections get the right hands. We sequence those trades into the move so the building is offline for the shortest window, and no one on our crew touches live services.
Can a move happen on a weekend?
Often, within the permit’s travel windows: Louisiana restricts oversize travel to daylight and limits holidays, and the widest loads carry the tightest windows. School and mill moves book weekends deliberately. Night moves are rare because the permit rules make them rare, not because we sleep in.
What happens at the receiving site before the building arrives?
The set gets planned: pad or piers prepared to the layout, the anchoring plan engineered for the site’s wind zone and surface, crane booked if placement needs one, and the last hundred feet of access confirmed. Buildings that arrive to prepared sites go to work in days; buildings that arrive to arguments sit on dollies.
What is the fastest way to get a real quote?
Both addresses, the building type and rough dimensions, and photos including the data plate, texted to (318) 707-0552. That is enough for a working range off the published guide the same day, and the route survey then pins the number before you commit to anything.
The numbers behind every answer live on the cost guide. The permit system is explained on the permits page, school moves on the classroom page, and everything starts at the homepage.