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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.
Sennheiser's Spectera just ran a full arena tour: two 1U base stations feeding 28 bodypacks at 96 kHz. When one rack unit replaces a wall of IEM transmitters and combiners, the monitor rig's truck footprint shrinks with it. Here's the packing math.
Heritage Live cancelled its entire 2026 season over supplier, artist and crew costs. Trucks are the part of a festival budget you commit to before a ticket scans, and a multi-act bill is where the count doubles. How to pack the site instead of the acts.
Freight rates are near record highs, the capacity index just hit a 43-month high, diesel jumped 34 cents in a week, and the driver pool is thinning under the new CDL rule. What that actually means when a production manager asks for one more trailer in October.
The touring case sizes nobody writes down: quarter, third, and half pack footprints, cable trunk and workbox dimensions, and the 90-inch vs 96-inch trailer math (45-inch half packs, the 24x48 grid) that decides whether your pack rolls tight.
