Heavy Haul

[Krafty]

I saw this runnin down the road yesterday. I caught it heading I-255 west in Il right about a half mile before crossing into St. Louis MO. Not sure what it is but it must have been heavy. That had two of these one in front of the other. Not the best pic it is from my BlackBerry, but each one had four pilot trucks, A tri axle pulling and a tri axle pushing, and 4 Missouri state troopers waiting at the state line to escort.

[YellowDogSVC]

I see those occasionally heading out I-10 west from San Antonio area. Not sure what they are hauling. Some look like parts to the windmills and others look to be hauling parts of large pumps or generator housing but that's an uneducated guess. Our bridges aren't overly tall around here...gotta be stressful.

[Gravel Rat]

Wow thats alot of wheels not something allowed in this province. If it was allowed that truck would be allowed to gross 157 ton.

They must need a pusher truck for that kind of load there is no way the single truck tractor would get that load rolling even a truck with 550-600hp.

[YellowDogSVC]

Wow thats alot of wheels not something allowed in this province. If it was allowed that truck would be allowed to gross 157 ton.

They must need a pusher truck for that kind of load there is no way the single truck tractor would get that load rolling even a truck with 550-600hp.

I wonder what is so heavy in those loads?

[bobcat_ron]

Those are electrical transformers, very, very heavy metal and lots of heavy mineral oil inside.

[GWhunter]

That looks like a gas turbine. It may also be a large compressor. That's how the tend to haul them. They usually ship them on trails then load them on haulers like those to there final destination. At the power plant I work at that's how they're delivered.

Matt

[GWhunter]

Those are electrical transformers, very, very heavy metal and lots of heavy mineral oil inside.

That's not a transformer, they also aren't allowed to ship full of oil. The oil is added after the transformers are set on pads. You can see the air intake's in the front. 99% sure it's a turbine.

Matt

[Krafty]

That's not a transformer, they also aren't allowed to ship full of oil. The oil is added after the transformers are set on pads. You can see the air intake's in the front. 99% sure it's a turbine.

Matt

Yes there were some giant what looked like air intakes towards the front. Each one did have a pull and a push truck. I tried gettin a pic of the other one but it didnt turn out. The other one on the push truck it had probaly 10,000# of concrete weight on the back end of it. Just wild you don't see that every day. The actual box itself is not really all that big but it must be a heavy sucker though.

[Danny Boy]

That looks like a gas turbine. It may also be a large compressor. That's how the tend to haul them. They usually ship them on trails then load them on haulers like those to there final destination. At the power plant I work at that's how they're delivered.

Matt

Nah wrong, Its some mini-ex contractor heading home from BC with all the cash he made:drinkup:

[Gravel Rat]

Some places the roads are soft so you can only have so many ton per axle here in B.C. your allowed 10 ton per axle.

In B.C. max 8 axles thats all your able to use and still make it around the roads.

[igotdiesel2]

Check out this site:http://www.diamondheavyhaul.com/ It was probably the company that was doing the hauling. They have some WILD trailers in their fleet. -Jason

[Junior M]

Those are electrical transformers, very, very heavy metal and lots of heavy mineral oil inside.
Dad works on the substation crew at the local power company and thats not how they bring in transformers.. ;)

[ProTouch Groundscapes]

seems like diamond has that niche market zipped up right there, pretty much name your price.

[igotdiesel2]

The story about Diamond Heavy haul is that they used to build and sell the trailers for those type of hauls then decided to just start doing the hauling themselves. They sure do look like a top notch company, clean looking fleet for sure. -Jason

[93turbo]

They haul a lot of things that way I have no idea what this one is hauling but my dad use to work for a company rebuilding hydraulic presses and thats how they shipped them too

[wanabe]

Prairie State energy is my guess. I live 18 miles away and they have loads like this all the time for the new power plant. 2-3 weeks ago they had one that was 900,000lbs!

[igotdiesel2]

900,000 pounds!! Now that is a lot of weight. I wonder if D.O.T. even thinks about pulling these guys over and checking weight and straps? -Jason

[wanabe]

Yep 900,000lbs! I think it had 276 wheels on it. It was a hyd drive trailer unit. They had to widen out curves on the road and brace up all the bridges.