We provide a forklift moving service in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, and nearby areas. Most jobs are forklift transport: a forklift or lift truck is loaded at one site, chained down, hauled and unloaded at the next one, whether that is another plant, a dealer, an auction yard or a new warehouse. We also bring a lift truck to take machines off delivery trucks and set them in place.
The work is for manufacturers, warehouses and equipment dealers across Simcoe County, along the Highway 400 corridor from Innisfil Heights to Springwater and out to Alliston, Orillia and Midland. We arrange forklift moving services for Barrie, ON and the surrounding area.
- Industrial work only: forklifts, lift trucks and plant machinery, no household moves.
- One booking, door to door: loading, chain-down, haul, unloading and placement.
- Quick quotes: replies within 2–4 business hours.
- Minimum job: 3,500 CAD. Most industrial jobs cost more, and your written quote shows the full price.
- Coverage: Barrie, Simcoe County and the towns along Highways 400, 11 and 26.
- Insured: liability and workers’ compensation insurance (WSIB in Ontario), with a certificate of insurance on request.
Want a rough figure before you call? The Heavy Lifting & Moving Calculator gives a quick price range.
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Trusted Forklift Moving Services in Barrie
Why hand a forklift or a machine to our crew in Barrie? Because the move is planned around the unit itself: its weight, the height of the mast, how it gets onto the trailer and where it has to sit at the other end.
Our dedicated forklift moving service covers the whole trip. We check the unit, load it, chain it down front and rear, haul it on a trailer matched to its weight and height, and unload it where you want it.
Forklift Transport Between Barrie Sites, Dealers and Auctions
Our forklift transportation service handles one-off hauls and planned moves. Typical forklift transport services around Barrie:
- a used lift truck bought at an auction or from another company, collected and delivered to your dock or yard;
- a new unit brought from the dealer, or a leased one returned at the end of its term;
- a whole fleet moved when a warehouse relocates, for example from Barrie to Innisfil Heights;
- a spare truck shuttled between two plants, or a unit taken to a repair shop and brought back.
Industrial Forklifts and Lift Trucks We Move
We haul industrial forklifts of the common types, from pallet trucks to heavy-capacity forklifts:
- electric, propane (LPG) and diesel counterbalance forklifts;
- reach trucks, order pickers and narrow-aisle trucks from distribution centres;
- walkie stackers and electric pallet trucks;
- rough-terrain forklifts from lumber and building-supply yards;
- large-capacity lift trucks, checked for width and height on the trailer against the permit limits below.
Send the make, model and truck weight from the data plate. A counterbalance forklift usually weighs more than the load it is rated to lift, because of its counterweight, and that weight decides the trailer.
Expert Forklift Movers in Barrie
Our team of forklift movers also moves heavy machinery, for example a machine that arrives on a truck at a site with no loading dock: a CNC lathe for a machine shop, a press brake for a fabricator or a packaging machine for a food plant.
We offer forklift moving services in Barrie, ON for that work too. The crew brings a heavy-capacity lift truck sized to the machine, takes it off the truck, carries it inside and sets it down on the spot your team has marked.
Forklift Unloading and Machine Moving Services
As an industrial moving company, we also take on machine moving services inside a building: a lathe shifted to a new bay, a compressor moved out of the way for a renovation, a crated machine stored and delivered later. Your licensed electricians disconnect and reconnect power; we move the machine.
For full machinery moving services (skates, a hydraulic gantry or jack-and-roll, then levelling and millwright installation), our machinery movers in Barrie plan the job. Rigging only, with no transport? See industrial rigging services in Barrie.
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Forklift Moving Process: How to Move a Forklift From Site to Site
As a forklift moving company, we follow the same order on every job, whether it is one walkie stacker or a yard of lift trucks. From the first photo of the data plate to secure loading and transportation, these are the steps:
- Unit details: make, model, truck weight and fuel type (electric, propane or diesel), any attachments, and both addresses.
- Running or not: tell us if the unit doesn’t run; we confirm the method before quoting.
- Trailer and route: a tilt-deck or flatbed trailer matched to the weight and to the overall height with the mast down, and a route clear of low bridges and wires.
- Prep at pickup: forks lowered, the battery unplugged on an electric truck or the propane valve closed, loose attachments strapped.
- Loading: a running unit drives onto the deck; a unit that can’t drive is loaded by the method agreed in step 2.
- Chain-down: at least four tie-downs at the front and rear, with accessory equipment lowered and secured, as National Safety Code Standard 10 requires for wheeled equipment over 4,500 kg.
- Delivery: unloaded at ground level or at your dock, then driven or carried to the spot you choose.
If the Forklift Doesn’t Run
A flat battery, locked brakes or a hydraulic fault changes how a unit gets onto a trailer, and sometimes whether it can travel as it is. Tell us if the unit doesn’t run; we confirm the method before quoting, so the price matches the work.
Forklift Moving Equipment
We work with forklifts and specialized equipment matched to the unit and to the site:
- Tilt-deck and flatbed trailers, so most forklifts load and unload at ground level, with no dock needed
- Chains, binders and wheel chocks for the chain-down
- Heavy-capacity lift trucks to unload, carry and place machines
- Machinery skates and a hydraulic gantry for machines that must go where a forklift can’t
Units we haul range from pallet trucks to heavy-capacity forklifts; machines we place range from a single drill press to the sections of a packaging line.
Ensuring Safety: Our Forklift Moving Services
Safety on a forklift move comes from the plan: a known weight, the right trailer, a clear path at both ends and a load that cannot shift on the road.
Who does what: your team clears the pickup and drop-off areas and tells us about ramps, floor openings and door heights; our crew loads, chains, hauls and unloads; and the permits below are arranged before a large unit leaves the yard.
Permits and Spring Load Limits for Forklift Transport in Barrie and Simcoe County
Most forklifts travel as legal loads, with no permit. Large lift trucks are the exception. On County roads, a load wider than 2.6 m or higher than 4.15 m needs a County of Simcoe oversized load permit; the County needs at least 5 business days to issue one, and a single-trip permit is valid for 3 consecutive days.
City streets need a City of Barrie oversize load permit, issued only after the City and Barrie Police Service sign it. Clearance heights are checked on site 48 hours before the move, and oversize moves cannot run on weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 a.m. or 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., or from half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise. On Highways 400, 11 and 26, which are provincial, an oversize load needs an MTO oversize/overweight permit, applied for at least 5 business days ahead.
Spring matters most for heavy units. From March 1 to April 30, both the City and the County limit load-restricted roads to 5 tonnes per axle, so a big lift truck on a trailer may need a different route or trailer in those weeks. Tell us the truck weight early and we plan around it.
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Service Area: Forklift Transport Across Barrie and Simcoe County
Our forklift hauls start and end at industrial sites all over the county. Innisfil Heights, south of the city on Highway 400, is a provincially designated employment area for manufacturing, warehousing, assembly and processing that depends on the highway. In Springwater, Bertram Industrial Park sits on County Road 27, about ten minutes north of Barrie, and the Snow Valley Road industrial area is in Midhurst. Alliston, home to Honda’s two vehicle assembly plants, is a short run to the southwest.
We also provide local haulage services up Highway 400 and Highway 11 to Orillia, west on Highway 26 to Stayner and Collingwood, and north to Midland and Port Severn. Our Barrie service area covers about a 50 km radius around the city, shown on the map below.
Towns and Cities We Serve Around Barrie
| City | Province | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Barrie | Ontario | Canada |
| Angus | Ontario | Canada |
| Aurora | Ontario | Canada |
| Beaverton | Ontario | Canada |
| Borden | Ontario | Canada |
| Brechin | Ontario | Canada |
| Cannington | Ontario | Canada |
| Coldwater | Ontario | Canada |
| Collingwood | Ontario | Canada |
| Creemore | Ontario | Canada |
| East Gwillimbury | Ontario | Canada |
| Elmvale | Ontario | Canada |
| Georgina | Ontario | Canada |
| Innisfil | Ontario | Canada |
| Midland | Ontario | Canada |
| Minesing | Ontario | Canada |
| New Tecumseth | Ontario | Canada |
| Newmarket | Ontario | Canada |
| Orillia | Ontario | Canada |
| Oro Station | Ontario | Canada |
| Port Severn | Ontario | Canada |
| Stayner | Ontario | Canada |
| Sunderland | Ontario | Canada |
| Washago | Ontario | Canada |
| Waubaushene | Ontario | Canada |
Need a forklift taken farther? Runs to GTA dealers, to Ottawa or across the US border are quoted per trip. If the pickup is in the GTA, see our forklift moving service in Toronto or forklift moving service in Brampton; for machinery jobs elsewhere in the province, see our machinery movers across Ontario.
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Choose Us: Forklift Moving Service by an Industrial Moving Company
- Industrial moving services only: forklifts, lift trucks and plant machinery.
- One crew from pickup to placement: loading, chains, haul and unloading in one booking.
- Straight answers on what changes the price: truck weight, mast height, a unit that won’t run, spring road limits.
- Machinery help on the same call: forklift unloading, skates, gantries and millwright installation.
- Quote replies within 2–4 business hours.
A good fit: forklift transport between plants and warehouses, dealer and auction pickups, fleet moves to a new building, a unit taken to a repair shop and back, and machines unloaded and placed with a heavy-capacity lift truck.
Not a fit: forklift rental, forklift repair, parts or forklift service in the maintenance sense, forklift sales, operator training, licensing or jobs, lumper work, general freight and pallet moving, and household moving services in Barrie.
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Have These Ready for an Exact Quote
An exact price comes fastest from a quote request with these six details:
- The unit: make, model, truck weight and fuel type, or the machine you need moved
- Whether it runs, and if not, what is wrong (battery, brakes, hydraulics)
- Pickup and delivery addresses, with dock or ground-level access at each end
- Overall height with the mast fully lowered, and any attachments
- Dates, including a lease return or shutdown deadline
- Photos of the unit, its data plate and the way out
What Sets the Cost of Forklift Transport in Barrie
Each forklift move is priced per job. The main cost drivers:
- Truck weight and size, which set the trailer and decide whether a permit is needed
- Distance: a run across Barrie versus a haul to Alliston, Orillia or a GTA dealer
- Loading conditions: a unit that drives up a tilt deck loads quicker than one that won’t run; tight yards and no dock add time
- Season: March and April road limits can mean a longer route or a different trailer for heavy trucks
- Extras: waiting time, several units in one trip, storage, or machines unloaded and placed
If you have several units to move, list them all in one request so the trips can be planned together.
We accept payments in C$ (CAD).
or give a call +1-647-846-5179
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Location of our sales office:
30 Quarry Ridge Rd, Barrie, ON L4M 7G1, Canada
Barrie Forklift Moving and Transport FAQ
It moves forklifts and uses them to move machinery. Around Barrie that means loading a lift truck at one site, chaining it down, hauling it on a tilt-deck or flatbed trailer and unloading it at the next site, or bringing a heavy-capacity lift truck to take a machine off a delivery truck and set it in place. It is industrial work, not a household move.
Forklifts and lift trucks of the common types, from electric and propane counterbalance trucks to reach trucks, order pickers, walkie stackers and pallet trucks, plus machines a forklift can carry safely, such as lathes, mills, small presses and crated equipment. Heavier or awkward machines move on skates or a hydraulic gantry with our machinery movers in Barrie.
We start with the truck weight, the height with the mast lowered and whether the unit runs. Then we pick a tilt-deck or flatbed trailer, lower the forks, unplug the battery or close the propane valve, and load it. At least four tie-downs hold it at the front and rear, as National Safety Code Standard 10 requires above 4,500 kg, before it is hauled and unloaded.
Tell us when you ask for the quote and say what is wrong: a flat battery, locked brakes, a hydraulic leak or an engine fault. A unit that can’t drive or steer can’t climb onto a trailer under its own power, so the loading method has to change. Tell us if the unit doesn’t run; we confirm the method before quoting, so the price reflects the real work.
Usually not. Most forklifts on a trailer stay within 2.6 m wide and 4.15 m high, the County of Simcoe limits for a single-trip permit. A large lift truck that goes over them needs a County permit, which takes at least 5 business days, a City of Barrie oversize load permit for city streets, signed by the City and Barrie Police Service, and an MTO permit for Highway 400.
Yes, with planning. From March 1 to April 30, the City of Barrie and the County of Simcoe hold load-restricted roads to 5 tonnes per axle. A big lift truck on a trailer can go over that, so we route it along unrestricted roads and provincial highways or change the trailer. Send the truck weight early so a spring move can be scheduled around the limits.
Yes. Typical runs include a lift truck from a Barrie warehouse to Innisfil Heights on Highway 400, a spare unit to a plant in Alliston, and a forklift up Highway 11 to a yard in Orillia or Midland. Each trip is quoted from the pickup and delivery addresses, the truck weight and the access at both ends, so send all three with your request.
Barrie and the rest of Simcoe County: Innisfil and Innisfil Heights, Springwater, including Midhurst and the Bertram Industrial Park, Angus, Alliston and New Tecumseth, Orillia, Midland, Collingwood, Stayner and Elmvale, and south to Bradford, Newmarket and Aurora. Longer runs to GTA dealers, Ottawa or across the US border are quoted per trip.
It is priced per job. The truck weight and height set the trailer; distance, loading conditions at both ends, a unit that won’t run, spring road limits and waiting time add to it. Several units can share one trip when they are listed in one request. For a rough range, try our Heavy Lifting and Moving Calculator, or send the details for an exact quote.
No. We don’t rent or sell forklifts, sell parts, repair them, do forklift service or inspections, or run operator training, and we don’t do household moves. For those, a forklift dealer, a service shop or a residential mover is the right call. We move forklifts: if your unit has to go to a dealer or a repair shop and back, we can haul it.
