Train vs windmill blade on truck, guess who wins.

Was just reading about some bigger hauls in the future.

Next generation wind turbines in Minnesota could be 60 stories high

 

Despite my feelings about a lot of the guys hauling this stuff it sucks to see an accident like this and it sucks people got hurt.

 

you are absolutely wrong in this case and I have hauled many blades

 

It’s Hwy 183 where he was turning.

 

Most of the wind farms are out in the middle of nowhere and they have no choice but to run on the narrow roads. Most of them have no issues but some have proven that they shouldn’t be hauling tower pieces. The last 6 or 7 years or more we’ve been dealing with them in KS and NE, most are fine, some pull out and force you to drop from 65 to 0 because they think it’s their god given right to drive through stop signs when they have a pilot car. If it was just the truck and driver I would have zero sympathy after years of dealing with some real pieces of work, but it said others were injured and the blade landed on top of a farmers market so that does suck.

 

why are you asking a guy that doesn’t haul blades that question?

 

You have people telling you it’s been done many times before. So yep, it should’ve been attempted. Refer to my statement that many are good at it and some have no business doing it.