Stop wasting valuable time searching for professional escorts!
Contact Us TodaySend us your transport schedule of oversize loads, and we will coordinate all of your Route Surveys and Pilot Cars. They will be ready for where and when you need them. We can even assist when crossing the border into Canada or within secured Ports.
One call, text, or email to Amanda is all it takes!
Why Choose Us
We Are An Extension Of Your Office
Coastal Lights, LLC started from a very humble beginning. We began with one Chevy “Shortie” Van and complete on the road training through MEF Transportation working with Super-Loads throughout the East Coast and Midwest. Over the years, we quickly evolved into what we are today. We grew by continuing to challenge ourselves and the industry to provide professional, safety focused standards in Escorts and Pilot Cars.
Our Mission
Our goal is and always will be – Through careful planning and attention to detail, do the job right the first time and never make any exceptions. Safety, professionalism, and integrity are the priorities. By this mission, most possibilities of controllable mishaps can be avoided. The uncontrollable, unforeseen issues from being on the road can be greatly minimized.
Our Philosophy
By basing our business on a small group of long-term clients instead of taking all trips available from potential part-time customers, we have been able to focus our time on assisting our clients to succeed.
Our Vision
Our plan for the future is to remain a mid-sized company focused solely on exceeding our customer expectations by raising our standards and implementing new services. To obtain this we stay fully connected with our clients and their changing needs.
What We Do
Our Specialties
Boat Transport
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Michigan Oversize
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Project Coordination
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Happy Boat Hauler Clients
Long-Term MI Heavy Haul Companies
Annual Contracts for Weekly Trips
50+ Load Projects Completed
We’re Here Every Step Of The Journey
We have designed our list of services to assist our clients in streamlining their logistics responsibilities, and help promote their businesses in a professional manner. The more our customers profit and grow, the better we do.
Bid and Quote Requests
Over the years, we have worked with many of our clients to properly quote the extra expense involved in the transport of oversize loads. For instance estimating the costs for pilot cars, route surveys, police, and bucket trucks. Contact Sean to assist with your request.
Oversize Trip Coordination
Forward your transport schedules to Amanda including dates, locations, and dimensions. She will then organize all of your Route Surveys and Pilot Cars for when and where you need them. Our escorts will call the driver the day before to confirm everyone is on schedule.
Physical Route Surveys
Our company only offers physically run Route Surveys. We will not take any chances of putting your business or load at risk by issuing book surveys. We worked too hard building our business to roll the dice on a potential cost or time savings.
Shared GPS Routing
Once we receive your permits, our escorts read through them for any potential issues and input the routing into our InRoute GPS Software. If your company uses this program, we will forward the full permitted routing to your driver so that everyone can work together as a team.
Professional Pilot Cars
Our vehicles and escorts are fully certified, insured, and equipped to go anywhere you need us throughout the United States and Canada. This includes entering secured US Ports. Our updated credentials packet can be emailed upon request for your records.
Overnight Security
If space is allowed, our escorts park near the load at night. This helps keep trucks from parking too close and also provides more camera coverage while the drivers all sleep. Our pilot cars all include front and rear cameras.
Business Marketing
We are always seeking new ways to promote our business and our customers. Whether it’s from requests through our websites, posts on Facebook, or in public conversations, we sell our client’s services in a professional manner. The busier you are, it means less downtime for us!
Professional Client Network
We have built close, long-term relationships with all of our full time clients. In doing so we have formed a strong nurturing group which including some of the leaders in the industry. When anyone has a question, we always have someone to send them to for answers!
Bid and Quote Requests
Oversize Trip Coordination
Physical Route Surveys
Shared GPS Routing
Professional Pilot Cars
Overnight Security
Business Marketing
Professional Client Network
More Services Coming Soon!
Our business evolves as our clients grow. Contact us with any new ideas you have.
Why Join Us
Reputation, Integrity and Experience
Bumper hangers need not apply!
Whether it’s filling one of our personal pilot cars, or adding to our professional network across the United States and Canada, we are always searching for the right people. Since the majority of our customers have been with us for many years and have become very close friends, we value personality over prior experience. The key traits we seek is professionalism, integrity, and a positive team mentality.
- Safetey is always our primary responsibility. You are being paid to pay attention and drive responsibly.
- Be professional at all times. You are representing yourself, Coastal Lights, and the trucking company while in public.
- Do the job right the first time. Plan ahead and be prepared.
- Proper communication is team work. Everyone needs to work together and respect each other’s resposibilities to get the job done efficiently.
- Certifications, Permits, Insurance, and Equipment ALL must meet the State/Province requirements for the entire run you committed to. Any monetary expense that either the trucking company or Coastal Lights, LLC receives due to this like fines, tickets, or extra cost of escort replacement will be your resposibility.
- Dress appropriately for the job. If you do not know the regulations of the origin and/or destination, then be prepared by wearing clothes that may be required. This includes having your hard hat, safety vest, steel-toe boots, and safety glasses readily available.
- Be at the origin before the agreed upon time. On-Time does not mean that you need to be there at the moment you are requested to leave. On-Time means arriving early to assure your vehicle is setup and available to hold a Pre-Trip meeting with the Driver and other Escorts to receive copies of the permits, discuss the routes, possible hazards, and everyone’s individual responsibilities.
- Escorts that are Certified, Equipped, and Insured to go nationwide. We’ve seen it too many times that a second run becomes available with the same driver but the brokered escort isn’t qualified to take it.
- Escorts with passports to cross into Canada. This seems to getting harder and harder to find each year.
- Escorts with TWIC cards. we generally assist the drivers in ports, but they have come to understand if our escorts are not there, then they probably will be on their own.
If you think that you have what it takes to join our Coastal Lights team or network, please press the button below to be open our online form. If you are not a current pilot car company and interested in finding out what positions we currently have available, then please contact us through the form at the bottom of this page.
From Our Blog
Latest News
Macomb, MI to Everett, WA
For being a tarped load going across the northern states in early February, this was a surprisingly uneventful trip. We did have our battles with the 40 and 50 mph winds through South Dakota and Montana causing us to shut down early one day and...
Holly, MI to Tinley Park, IL
What started out as an easy trip, quickly turned messy! I was hired to bring David from Holly to the IN/IL line. But due to how bad the storm evolved, he asked if I could take him to the western side of Chicago. Illinois had routed him off the...
Oxnard, CA to Erie, PA
The perfect return trip from California. Great weather always makes it nice to take the southern route across the country in January. We didn't hit our first snow until we passed through Cleveland.
Testimonials
Our Awesome Clients
Eric Chevillet
Safe Harbor Haulers
Best pilot car service by far. Extremely professional and reliable.
Chris Holmes
US Boat Haulers
Coastal Lights is the best pilot car service in the country, They are professional and reliable. Sean and Amanda provide all types of pilot car needs nation wide, weather its high pole, surveys, chase or quotes they go the extra mile to make sure the needs of the trucks are met. They are the only call to make when I need pilot cars.
Paul Russell
Russell Marine Trans.
Sean with Coastal Lights is simply the best in the business. Prompt and professional service and always reliable in getting my company pilot cars all over the country! It’s my only call.
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