Not sure why this came to mind...

 

my permits were for 14 foot, 82 foot long, and 276,000 lbs. the blade on the D11 dozer was 13 foot 11 3/4 inches wide. the 365 excavator was 11 ft 6 inches wide.

the D-11 weighed around 226,000 lbs, the 365 excavator was rite around 146,000 lbs.
i used to have to take the 22 foot wide blade off the dozer if we were going to be using it and put it on another trailer to move it.

 

Did they shave that 1/4" off the blade to save weight?

 

The driver of the car was bucking for a Darwin award, and being culled from the herd..............You just don't do that to 18 wheelers.

Next time you are in a passenger car, at a stoplight next to a 18-wheeler, note that your eye level is at, or only slightly above the lug pattern on their wheels...........then think about it.

 

Years ago I did some work for Industrial Boiler, Inc. in Thomasville, Georgia. They had an order for a pair of massive double-wall boilers that I'm guessing to have been about 10' inside diameter and 30'+ long.

I have no idea what they weighed, but it's as much as I've ever seen put on a truck. The railroad yard was a few blocks from the boiler company making it was necessary to move the boiler by truck to the railroad yard. It took 4 tries to get the first one there due to the extreme weight.

The boiler was loaded on a low-boy and secured. When the truck left the yard, the trailer got hung up on the crown as it tried to get onto the road.

Attempt number 2 met immediate failure as the weight of the boiler was too much for the trailer. The low-boy's yoke broke under the strain.

Attempt number 3 had partial success. The truck and trailer got onto the road. At the one-block mark, a 90-degree left turn was required. Even though the load was secure, all of the trailer tires on the right side blew when the rig attempted the left turn.

The boiler finally arrived at the railroad yard on the 4th run.

With the lessons learned from moving that boiler, they did manage to get the second one there in one pass.

 

You should try that in an MG... You are at or below the hubs usually.

 

There was more then enough room for the car. 6 spaces have you actually ever driven in traffic? How often is there ever that much space to merge?


The passing on the right issue we do not have enough information to judge. Of question is where the VW was in relation to the truck when it became clear to the VW that it must move left to continue past the truck in the right lane. It's also important to note that the truck was likley not keeping right. If it's possible to be passed on the right then you are not keeping right.



In an ideal world I tend to agree, trucks own the highways, simple fact. We pay the vast majority of the highway taxes and the highways system was created with trucking in mind. To my mind trucks should always have the right of way. But that's not the real world as it is today. Today the meek have power the strong by the virtue of their weakness.

 

I'm thirsty... wait.. not now.

 

OOPS

 

Gerry........we told you the epoxy glue wouldn't hold..............

 

I sure hope this isn't you

 

I guess the experiment didn't work eh! lol

 

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Around these parts, that's known as a "general failure to do right".

 

No takers yet Jman

Brute no its not

 

OOps I just clicked on the picture , By the looks of the tong and the trailer I think it would have been cheaper to just load the truck bed