Built for Tour Managers and Production Managers

You're responsible for everything that happens between cities. The gear has to arrive on time, the driver has to know the dock, and when something goes sideways at 3am you need someone who picks up the phone — not a dispatcher reading from a script.

Janco has been the logistics partner for touring productions across North America since 1975. We don't come from freight. We come from the road — and there's a difference that anyone who's toured can feel immediately.

What Other Carriers Don't Understand About Touring

Standard freight has flexible delivery windows. Touring doesn't. Your load-in window is fixed, your curtain time is fixed, and your crew's patience has a limit. When a carrier shows up late, doesn't know the dock, or gets stuck because nobody checked for the new parking garage that wasn't there last year — that's on you, not them.

Janco's lead drivers contact facility managers before every stop. They're checking dock access, construction changes, arrival windows, and staging options before the truck ever leaves the previous city. They arrive knowing what they're walking into — not figuring it out when they get there.

That's not extra effort. That's the minimum standard for touring logistics done right.

No Surprise Charges. Ever.

The most common reason production managers leave other carriers is unexpected charges — detention time, parking fees, tolls billed separately, daily rates that shift when the driver sits and waits at a venue.

Janco's rates are all-inclusive. Waiting is part of touring. We plan for it and price for it upfront. You know exactly what you're paying before the first truck rolls — and that number doesn't change because load-out ran long.

What Janco Does When Things Go Wrong

When one of our touring clients experienced unforeseen mechanical difficulties mid-tour, we didn't manage it from the office. We got on a plane. We showed up on site, sourced replacement parts, helped the crew get the production back in shape, and made sure the production manager had what she needed before the next load-in.

We gave her a ride to the airport.

That's not in a contract. That's what 50 years of understanding this industry actually looks like.

Drivers Who Become Part of Your Operation

Janco drivers are hired and trained specifically for live entertainment work. They learn through mentorship with lead drivers — understanding touring routes, dock access, venue quirks, union schedules, and the pace of a production that moves every night.

When the tour requires it, our drivers stay with you for the full run. That continuity matters. A driver who's been with you for three weeks knows your production manager's preferences, knows which venues have tight docks, knows when to stage early and when there's room to breathe. That institutional knowledge doesn't exist with a carrier that rotates drivers every few stops.

For tight turnarounds between cities we run team drives — two drivers per truck, DOT compliant, rotating on eleven-hour shifts with mandatory thirty-minute breaks. The truck keeps moving. The show doesn't fall behind.

Productions We've Supported

Janco has supported touring productions across every scale — from club runs and theater tours to arena productions and major festival circuits. Our roster has included Warped Tour, Stomp, and Government Mule, alongside Broadway productions, residencies, and emerging artists on their first national dates.

We've hauled drop deck trailers for productions that need extra vertical clearance, expedited box trucks into venues a semi can't reach, and pieced together cross-border logistics when the routing required it. Every production gets a custom solution built around what the show actually needs — not what's easiest for the carrier.

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