I took this while driving over spring break, and I'm just now getting around to posting it. This thing was huge, 96 wheels If I counted right. I dont know how it got on or off the interstate because it seems like turning would be a problem.



Anyone else ever seen anything like this actually rolling down the road?

3/22/2007 11:20:04 PM

was that in nc?? i know things like that are somewhat common in other areas of the country and in canada, but i've never seen anything like that here.

3/22/2007 11:21:57 PM

wtf is that? looks like deployable steel bridges for ice roads in canada...

3/22/2007 11:25:11 PM

it was in WV, and dont say... oh yea, thats backwards just like the rest of WV. It was on I-68 right outside of Morgantown.

3/22/2007 11:26:38 PM

what the bloody hell is that thing??

Also note that it seems to have a pusher engine on the back end of it. Nice.

3/22/2007 11:28:14 PM

ah. i would guess it's possibly something mining related being in wv, but i don't know.

it's not backwards at all... it's a very common way to transport really large stuff in certain areas.

[Edited on March 22, 2007 at 11:31 PM. Reason : .]

3/22/2007 11:31:31 PM

too bad you didn't have a cb radio, could have asked the trucker directly...

3/22/2007 11:31:32 PM

yea that would have been nice

3/22/2007 11:38:48 PM

"breaker breaker niner niner four two one, what cargo are you hauling, over"

3/22/2007 11:40:49 PM

It looks like a trailer they'd use to haul massive equipment around on. Maybe two or three hooked together.

I've seen ones similar to just the part of the trailer closest to the cab hauling around very large excavators while working at the DOT, so maybe this is for hauling a shit ton of mining equipment.

3/22/2007 11:49:49 PM

yeah, after looking at it some more it appears those are just the trailers, and it's actually empty.

they are somewhat similar to a typical lowboy type trailer, especially the front one.

3/23/2007 12:02:59 AM

empty you say? still seems overwhelmingly huge for being empty...

3/23/2007 12:28:55 AM

yep. everything appears to just be part of the trailers and dollys after looking at it closer...

3/23/2007 12:38:31 AM

74 tires btw...thats a shitload and i think its complete awesomeness

3/23/2007 1:01:09 AM

i'm seeing 78... assuming all are duals except the steering wheels.

3/23/2007 1:09:24 AM

thats actually 4 trailers, when tranporting large equipment, the first and third trailer are side by side in the front, the second and fourth are side by side in the rear, and the engine and control station is for the load leveling jacks and rear steer, its just a giant hydrualic pump, i've seen them move everything from rediculously large turbine generators to houses

3/23/2007 7:53:23 AM

This kind of setup is very common in mining regions. As a matter of fact, I've seen a couple of shows on Discovery Channel that had this kinda hauling setup, both out west here and in Australia, for hauling ore (I think it was a bauxite operation I saw on Discovery).

The Aussies use huge setups like this all the time, as they don't have a big established railroad system across their outback regions. They run not just conventional double trailer setups, but sometimes more like 5 or 6 trailers in what they call road trains.

3/23/2007 8:03:09 AM

large industrial equipment is delivered with this setup

but i dont see how those individual components could go side-by-side

ive only seen them hauling in that configuration with the load in the center

3/23/2007 9:06:51 AM

I got 78 also, fucking awesome

3/23/2007 11:38:55 AM

that must be one hell of a turbo diesel

3/23/2007 11:58:43 AM

Moving a heavy transformer in Wake Co.

3/23/2007 12:41:37 PM

aha, i like how they pretty much just use I-beams and stick what amounts to dollys under them to move something like that

3/23/2007 12:42:35 PM

3/23/2007 2:17:36 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
might help

3/23/2007 2:20:43 PM

^ thats for enclosed trailers and shit

^^^^ thats what i was talkin about side by side, except the curved pieces on the first one join the front and rear dollies on the sides

3/23/2007 2:56:07 PM

What I want to know is, how the hell do you turn on a normal street with something that long?

3/23/2007 3:47:39 PM

Unless they changed it, Oregon used to be one of the only states where "normal" trucks could run triples. It is kinda scary when it is windy. Not uncommon for the back two to get out of the lane during large gusts.



[Edited on March 23, 2007 at 5:00 PM. Reason : illustration]

3/23/2007 4:49:25 PM

I wish i could put my picture of them moving a historic church through downtown raleigh about 9 months ago


it took them all day to move it about 7 blocks they had to take down the stop lights at each intersection they passed and anything else that was in the way


The truck that moved it was one huge truck with 4 trailers that branched off into 4 rows


looked like it was going to fall at any moment



[Edited on March 23, 2007 at 4:55 PM. Reason : f]

3/23/2007 4:54:44 PM

a similar truck was just here. it too was carrying a transformer. they carried to rdu where they loaded it onto an Antonov AN-225 which is the world's largest airplane. damn i wish i knew that thing had came into rdu. i would have loved to watch it land and take-off.

http://www.kenworth.com/6100_pre_mor.asp?file=2062

3/23/2007 10:00:29 PM

Quote :

"I wish i could put my picture of them moving a historic church through downtown raleigh about 9 months ago"

All Saints' Chapel? I heard it had to be moved to save it from demolition, but never heard that it was successfully done. Where did they end up putting it?

3/23/2007 11:32:17 PM

I dont remember many details

I think it was on the corner of morgan and mcdowell


and they moved it to somewhere behind the salvation army on person street

3/24/2007 1:09:30 AM

They're called road trains, and they're often used in Australia(the country is basically only populated on the coast, with long desolate 'interstates' connecting radially across the inland area.) I don't think they're legal in NC. They'd be disasters waiting to happen in urban areas like this.






[Edited on March 24, 2007 at 10:30 AM. Reason : The cow catcher is evidently standard equipment...]

3/24/2007 10:29:31 AM

Quote :

"It looks like a trailer they'd use to haul massive equipment around on"

you'd be right, this rig is actually used to hauld massively heavythings. notice the one flat part, this is where the load goes. the other "trailers" simply distribute the load (notice that it hinges that the flat part is floating midways on the two trailers front and back)

3/24/2007 3:07:44 PM