Dang it

Sand box haulers do that just about every day down in the Permian!

 

It's the really big thing, I think it needs more wheels. And where's the escort, taking the picture eating a burrito?

 

Is that ATS?

 

I thought so.

 

Back in the 80's on 146 east of Houston by barbers cut port, a guy hauling some sort of steel vessel 80 foot or so long, hit the railroad over pass. It unloaded it right under the railroad. I will never forget, it had, handle with care glass lined down the side of it written in 3 or 4 foot tall letters. lol
I, at the time was working for a contractor on the railroad, and it bent the stringers in the bridge, so they could never straighten the track back up on top. the trains had to slow to 5 mph to cross the bridge after that.

 

ATS would transport that tube on a Schnauble trailer.

The Schnauble, although longer, would allow the driver to raise the load front and rear to get over the crown in the road, and the rear of the trailer is steerable.

The costs would be much more, but the ability to raise and lower the load and rear steer does give you much more options when pulling extremely long wheelbase loads.

 

Apparently, you gets what you pays for,,,

 

Is that not a half Schnauble trailer? That’s what I’ve heard them called before. I would think it has the same hydraulic capabilities on the front as a full Schnauble trailer.

 

I think the half Schnauble is the type that looks the exact same way as these in the front with the ability to raise and lower the tube and the tube is still bolted onto the front, but the rear is a trailer dolly like the one in the OP pic.