Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

Team Elmers , you guys don't miss a thing LOL.

 

Yep probably me. I was headed north last Tuesday through there.

 

The most difficult delivery site I have ever had. Tunnel construction site in Burnaby BC

Turns out @superhauler was right - they have some hills... started the day with 2 @10% - and finished the day by going up the 17% marked grade out of the jobsite.

The jobsite was on the side of a mountain over looking the channel bridge to North Vancouver accessed by a one lane road with cars parked on it. I was a little over 11 5 wide 109 long and 183k.

Took 2 hours to get in the last mile after turn down an alley off the main drag.

I am actually very amazed that I got in and out of there with tow trucks or damage.

 

@Rontonio in that last picture (bottom) why does it look like your jeep wheels are off the ground?

 

I have a lift axle on my Jeep and can only run it down in Canada if I flip the neck on the Jeep. With the flip neck down I can get the axle go up to axle
Group spacing required.

The house only weighed about 103k so I didn’t need it and could make weight for BC.

I had to put it down for OR and WA as they have the all axles must be down rule. But I can get away with 10’ spacing from group to group.

I have both a 10 axle and 11 axle inspection for Cali but run as 10 if at possible as the 11 route restrictions are ridiculous

 

Because his front is a lift axle.

 

That was some good info.

 

Interesting, what makes the 11 worse than the 10 in California’s opinion?

 

So in California when they restrict a route for weight they don’t do it at a specific gross weight but instead by the weight table and bonus level requested. As an example the small bridge before the scale at Banning allows purple (read max weight) 9 axle configurations but only standard green( think 70% axle group weight 51k vs 60k on a tridem) 11 axle
Configurations. The only detour around that bridge is about 150 mile detour through the mountains up by Joshua tree and coming back down I-15 from Victorville. Super ugly.

When I am a 10 axle in California- they route me as a 9 axle but allow me extra axle weight.

When I am an 11 axle they route me as an 11 axle. The California 11 axle routing is expecting me to be way heavier than I can ever actually be.