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The operations platform for oversize and heavy-haul freight — built for all four sides of a load: shippers, transporters, pilot-car escorts and brokers.
Visit the live site — oversizeops.comI've been hauling oversize loads across the country since 2000. The trade — and the company I drive for, around since 1954 — still runs on paper. Every trip, every inspection, filled out by hand.
So I started building the tools I wished I had, from the truck. Trip sheets first, then load inspections, then whatever the job needed next — and it kept growing until it covered the whole operation. I offered the entire system to the company I drive for. They didn't want to take it over. So I pulled it back, made it for every transport company, and turned it into a platform anyone in the trade can use.
It started life as Boat Transport Ops — boats only, because boats are what I haul. But a yacht on a lowboy is just one kind of oversize load. Same permits, same bridges, same escorts, same paperwork as a transformer, a crane, a wind blade or a house. Running two platforms to do one job made no sense, so Boat Transport Ops folded into Oversize Ops.
Boats are now one freight type among many, and everything built for them came along — including the marine business directory of yards, marinas, ports and dealers that took years to compile.
An oversize move takes four parties, and the platform is built for each of them. Shippers post the freight — free, always. Transporters haul it. Escorts run the pilot cars out front and behind. Brokers put the deal together. Each gets its own tools, its own dashboard, and its own free public directory so the rest of the industry can actually find them.
Anyone can open a free personal profile — a driver, an escort, an owner-operator — and request to join a company they work for.
A load board to post, find and take oversize freight, with server-verified shipper and broker labeling so nobody can pretend to be something they aren't. Dispatch and trip sheets — loads, drops, escorts, fuel, driver payroll and weekly reports. A money pipeline from quote to bill of lading to invoice, with rate tables and printable paperwork. Fleet and compliance for trucks and trailers: service-due tracking, repairs, and document-expiry reminders that email you before the permit lapses.
Businesses keep their own payment processor. Oversize Ops never sits between a company and its customers' money.
Anyone can draw a line on a map. The thing that actually gets a driver in trouble is a bridge. So the route planner is built on the National Bridge Inventory — 623,790 bridges — classifying every structure on your path red, yellow or green against your load's real height, and folding in construction zones along the way. A 14-foot-6 load doesn't get sent under a 13-foot bridge.
Tandy Services AI is baked in — an assistant that knows the platform and your company's own data, so it can answer "what's the status of that BOL" or "route this 90-foot load," not just chat.
It also runs an industry news desk: the AI drafts oversize, ELD and regulation stories from verified primary sources — the Federal Register and real trucking feeds — and nothing publishes until a human approves it. No hallucinated headlines, no auto-posted filler.
I built the original solo over two decades — by hand, no AI, on a tool called PHPRunner. It worked, but it fought me on the two things that matter most now: AI and SEO. Oversize Ops is a ground-up rebuild in hand-rolled PHP 8: multi-tenant, role-based access, a full audit log, and a real admin panel. Before a single customer touched it, it was attacked on purpose — a deliberate red-team pass hunting for auth bypass, cross-tenant leaks and injection, with everything found fixed and re-verified live.