What's it like transporting heavy equipment?

Right, so true and you know the person that decides that. Doesn't have to deal with it. If that makes sense.

 

Just toss them in the dump bed. Who's gonna look in there. Lol

Well deal with this situation with pipe racks. 16'5" with pipes on top or 15'1" tall without. Easy to pay for another truck when you start adding the cost of permits, cops, bucket trucks and routing. Probably even toss in a route survey for good measure.

 

Nah who needs a route survey. Just send it

yes I’m being sarcastic

 

a couple of years ago we had a route survey done from Baltimore to cape Canaveral that cost almost 60 Grand alone.

 

^^^^^This.
Whole different set of rules and expense with the bigger dims. Lot more time involved, lot more weekend curfews, lot more time sitting. So, the customer takes these expenses into account and you the driver do too.

I like that video because, most of the time people see you, they see you driving. And they have it in their head that it's just driving, sitting behind the wheel and you can teach a monkey to do the job. That's not the case here. And even then, this video does not show them putting the trailer together and shimming the deck. But it does do a good job of explaining things from the driver's view AFTER they load.

Now, @Gearjammin' Penguin, that is a 777 dump truck. They used to make them at the Cat factory in Decatur IL. They would ship the chassis on a multi axle rig. Cab, axles, suspension, wheels hydraulics...etc came out of Decatur also. These were transported on a regular flat.
My guess is, this video shows a short haul. Probably from 1 job site to another. If they didn't take those wheels off and get that height down, then they would have had to have the bucket trucks (2 of them) running along taking wires down and putting them right back up, a very slow and EXPENSIVE process on an already expensive move.

So, I like those gray areas you mentioned. That gives you freedom to work out your options. Whenever legislation becomes involved, and the gray is taken out, the whole process becomes unbelievably slow and stupid. How stupid can legislators get? Anyone remember a few years back, when Alabama required a pilot car for any piece of heavy equipment with a blade? Most of your dozer and road grader oversized load will only have the blade sticking over the side of the trailer, maybe 6 inches or less. Yet, Alabama required a pilot car because of the blade. When it comes to anything trucking, legislators are s-t-o-o-o-p-i-d.

 

hope it was better than the last 3 crappy ones we were handed

 

Yeah, that was a once in a lifetime move. But one we weren't allowed to take pictures of. Everything pretty much went according to plan. It was a two day circus that literally included black SUV escorts along with more clowns than one can fit into the nearest truck stop.

 

sounds interesting- it is
Always fun do
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One that is way out there

 

Dang I’m in the wrong business again