Mobile home transport is more than a truck and a tow bar — it's a permitted, escorted, two-state operation that starts the day a crew lead inspects the chassis and ends the week the unit is blocked, leveled, and re-anchored on its new pad. Quartz Transport & Install runs that full cycle across North Carolina and South Carolina from two hubs: Asheville/Fairview, NC at (828) 888-0327 and Florence/Lydia, SC. Whether you're a dealer staging lot turnover, an investor relocating a unit between parks, or a homeowner moving a single-wide off family land, the job runs the same way: inspect, permit, disconnect, haul, set, and certify.
What mobile home transport actually covers
A manufactured home doesn't move as one rigid object — it moves as a load on its own steel frame, and the work splits by unit type. Single wide mobile home transport handles a one-section home as a single oversize haul, typically 14–18 feet wide once it's on the road. Double wide mobile home transport breaks the home into two halves, hauls them separately, then bolts the marriage line back together and re-seams the roof and floor on site. Modular home transport covers IBC-built modular sections and triple-wide units, which often carry tighter clearance and crane-set requirements. Every unit gets a pre-move chassis and structural inspection first — newer HUD-Code homes built after June 15, 1976 move routinely, while pre-1976 units sometimes can't survive the road and are better demolished than dragged.
The two-state permit reality
The single biggest thing that separates a real transporter from a guy with a truck is permitting, and the Carolinas run two completely different systems. On the North Carolina side, every oversize manufactured-home haul needs a state permit issued under the NCDOT Publication MH-2 mobile and modular home permit, which dictates legal travel windows, escort-vehicle counts, and approved routing for wide loads on state highways. Layered on top is a county tax-paid moving permit under NCGS Chapter 105, Article 18 — proof that the home's property taxes are current before it can legally leave its parcel. South Carolina works differently: under SC Code § 31-17-360, the county licensing agent issues the moving permit and the county treasurer must certify taxes are paid before release. We file all of it as part of the quote — for the step-by-step, see our mobile home moving permit guide.
Cross-state NC↔SC moves are the hard part — and our specialty
Most movers hold authority in one state and stop at the line. A relocation from Charlotte down to Rock Hill, or from the SC Upstate north into the WNC mountains, crosses both the NCDOT MH-2 framework and SC § 31-17-360 at once — two sets of escorts, two travel-window rules, two tax-clearance chains. That hand-off is where botched moves happen. Because Quartz carries licensing in both NC and SC and dispatches from two hubs, a single crew owns the whole route: disconnect on one side of the border, haul through both permit regimes, and re-set on the other. NCDOT also bars oversize movement in winds above 25 mph and restricts hauls to daylight off-peak windows, so we build those holds into the schedule rather than discovering them at the loading site.
Setup, anchoring, and the full Carolinas footprint
The haul is only half the job. On the new site we re-block the piers, level the chassis to a 1/4-inch tolerance, bolt up the marriage line on multi-section homes, reconnect utilities, and re-anchor the unit to spec. That's the difference between a home that's delivered and a home that's livable. We cover the full width of both states — from the WNC coves and the I-40 / I-26 corridor through the Piedmont and Sandhills to the SC Midlands and the Pee Dee. See the regional picture for single-wide and double-wide work, price it out with our how much does it cost to move a mobile home breakdown, or just put the unit, route, and timeline on the form and a licensed transporter returns a written quote inside 24 business hours.