Illinois -- Forklift with counterweight slabs -- indivisible load?

If you put a @ in front of his name hell know your hollering out to him. @ichudov

 

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We used to go through similar shenanigans when I was hauling steel. Sometimes we had prefabricated “assemblies” that we would ship as oversize. Not really overweight but occasionally we would bolt pieces together to fit more on a load (making it oversize)
The last straw for me was when they were fabricating some 80’ girders that were 20 tons each. They were seriously considering trying to assemble 2 of them together making the load 40 tons! This was just for shipping to a galvanizing plant where they would have NO means of handling these things. I would’ve had to try to get them split so I could get 1 piece off at a time...this being done at a place where finding english speaking people is very difficult...
That was it for me, I moved on...

 

@ichudov I agree with you and m16ty as far as “intended use” goes. Heck you could probably even get away with welding counterweight into the well of the machine, I doubt if anyone would know the difference.
Most of our oversize loads were legitimate, only on occasion would we “bend” the rules...
I was a company driver and most of the time I tried to “make money for the company”