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Anybody want anything from Ontario?

Just quietly following along....... though of you today when I seen this online........

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Well that adds a bit of perspective now, doesn't it? The side mirror is almost as tall as one of the guys on the road....
 
Chicken lights said:
That’s a little out of my league, I bet @historicalarms could handle that though
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Nope, don't want to be anywhere's close to that move anymore LOL.
I think the heaviest load I ever hauled was just over 100,000 lbs.
I have a buddy that did participate in some moves like that with 3 tractors required for pushing up river banks and breaking coming down, one steering & pulling & 2 behind. He claimed it was very hard to be one of the back drivers as the steering is locked & you cant see shit in front of you, you just hit the required pedals & shift gears when told to by the lead driver. He said it was very unnerving to be at the complete discretion of what happened in the front with not much warning.
The heaviest load I know of back in my days of oil rig moving was Billy R ( of the "hot coffee" story) was tasked with hauling a sub/derrick combo at the same time. We often did this in the winter on frozen roads, easy to get a permit on them, altho expensive . this particular time Bill was permitted to 165,000 as per the rig owners specs. We found out later that this was a fudged figure (plus it had a fair amount of frozen drilling mud inside the sub-frame that we couldn't see) that some paper-pusher did on purpose to cheapen the permit cost.
so off we happily went ,from Central Ab. area(Camrose) headed for Mayerthorpe region. We all thought we were legal as hell so didn't avoid the scales at Achesson All the lighter loaded winch tractors ,bed trucks & picker trucks when across first with no problem...Then it was Bills turn...and those DOT scale operators took an instant interest in him & his load, one of them was standing on his fuel tank in about 10 seconds asking Bill if he knew how heavy he was...Bills reply, "ya about 165,000, heres the permit"...would you believe your just under 240,000 was the Dot's Reply...oh oh this wasn't going to be good.
They immediately seized Bill's steering papers, the truck & trailer & the rig components. The rig was released about a week after seizure. The rig owners had to rent two 150 tonner cranes and swing the load directly to two other trailers in the parking lot. first the derrick A-leg pins had to be pulled to separate the derrick from the sub-frame so it was now two different loads.
Bills licence remained seized for over a month (at one time in all the proceedings he thought it was gone for good) along with the truck & trailer. It being winter , the truck remained running the whole time & we delivered fuel 3 times a week until it was released. The DOT's investigation, after a month or so determined that it was a drilling company employee that had falsified info and the trucking company wasn't at fault so once the drillers paid the fine (rumored at $100,000 but don't know for sure) everything was released.
 
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