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US airlines have to take a guitar in the cabin for no extra fee if there's bin space when you board, and check one up to 150 linear inches and 165 pounds. Here's the rule text, what Delta and Southwest add to it, and the flight case math for a fly date.
Slipknot's 2027 stadium run goes London, North America, South America. One set can't make that by sea. Here's the two-set math, and what changes when the pack goes from a 53' trailer to a 40' high cube.
Bleachers are touring 30 Robe SvoPatts on three trusses. I turned the rig into case rows, floor feet and pounds for a 53-foot trailer, with the spec numbers cited and the guesses flagged.
The top 100 tours grossed a record $3.16 billion at mid-year, but average gross per show fell to $1.63 million and show count jumped 18.2 percent. More load-ins at the same rate card, and the truck line is the one cost a production actually controls.
Can you drive a Sprinter with a trailer on the Merritt? No, and it fails twice. Road by road on where a van, trailer, box truck or 26-footer can and cannot legally go in New York, Connecticut and Boston, with the clearance numbers and what to put in the advance.
A sourced reference sheet for anyone budgeting or booking trucks this year: mid-year touring grosses and show counts, record spot rates, diesel, the CDL and English-proficiency capacity squeeze, cargo theft losses per incident, and two numbers from our own load plans.
Ship your own rig on an ATA carnet or rent backline in Europe? The carnet paperwork runs about $665 on a $75,000 rig while rental stacks per day per show. Here is where the lines cross, with real numbers, and why the hybrid usually wins.
John Mulaney is playing nine NYC venues in nine nights, from a 150-seat basement to Madison Square Garden. What that run looks like from the production side, and why a tiered master pack is the only sane way to advance it.
Two months after the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland went digital-only, US carnets are still paper and USCIB has quietly dropped its second-half-2026 target date. What that means for a fall European leg, and why your General List and your load plan should come from one inventory.
