There are a few obvious reasons for touring carts. The first and most important is that they allow you to hang large walls quickly. Time is money. The second is, they allow you to transport large quantities of tiles with less truck space. Truck space is money. Thirdly, and let’s not dismiss this as trivial, they just look cool compared to massive piles of big-ass road cases. At Upstage Video, we’ve got plenty of LED that live and travel in road cases, but we’ve also invested heavily in proper touring carts for all of the reasons above… With plenty of providers offering viable options, my advice would be to not try and reinvent the wheel. Figure out if you really need a touring cart solution. Then spend some time checking out the many choices available. Some really smart people have spent a lot of time, money and effort designing and fabricating their solutions so that you don’t have to.
–Doug Murray, from “Zero Point Zero,” PLSN, Nov. 2017, page 120
