What the....wide load

[Skyco]

Saw this on the road yesterday- no license plate and 3ea 11' Mules crossways on a gooseneck trailer, pulled by a pickup, no wide load signs or anything.
Sorry for the lousy cell phone pic, wanted to get one of the slack jawed driver as I passed but couldn't...

 

[HHR]

Where is the police convoy?

 

[CompactTractorFan]

:laughing: The worst wide load I have seen was a house coming down the road. There was only inches on either side (we thought we were going to be hit). I don't know if it had a police escort but I think there was pilot cars. Another time we were coming up to a light and we saw two state police cars coming down the road. A few minutes later there was multiple pilot cars and state police front and back and a HUGE 18...uh...100 wheeler coming down with a huge piece of industrial equipment (transformer maybe). That tractor must of has 5 axles and the trailer must of had 25 axles with multiple "jeeps". :confused2:

 

[Diamondpilot]

Our area is big on Wind Mills. The new kind. The blades are something like 180' long on some of them. They are not a wide load but 3 times the length of a standard Semi.

I tow a boat that is 13' wide and weighs 25,000#. The weight is not a issue but that width is a pain. We run a pilot front and rear and get a permit but it takes careful planning and you really have to think about the turns.

I personally own a 10' wide boat, the one in my avatar, and tow it all over 8 states. I guess its just what you are comfortable with.

Chris

 

[Skyco]

I personally own a 10' wide boat, the one in my avatar, and tow it all over 8 states. I guess its just what you are comfortable with.

No problem with a legal wide load...I wasn't clear really but that was my point..he was begging for a ticket.

Here in SC where I saw him he needed a wide load sign, flags on the corners, and he had to be off the road 30 mins before sundown.... he didn't meet any of those, and I bet he didn't have a clue either:confused2:
As for comfortable--I didn't mention when I first saw him he was doing 75 in a 60 weaving lanes, so either very comfortable or......

 

[Thomas]

Maybe out of stater didn't know the laws??

 

[LostInTheWoods]

You probably won't believe it, but I'm going to post it anyway. About a year-and-a-half ago, I'm driving home from work. A nice, long country drive. Kind of hilly and narrow shoulders. Typical country road.

About half-way home I get behind some folks pulling a mobile home. Not all that dramatic, typically.

But pulling this house are four cars and trucks all chained together in a line...a late 80's or early 90's model Ford F150, a 90's model Ford Taurus, a Chevy Cavalier, and some car I wasn't quite sure what it might have been under all the bondo and multiple paint colors, but looked to be similar to an early 2000's Ford Fiesta.

I have no idea how far they had made it by the time I caught up to them, but about a mile-and-a-half after I got behind them the Taurus starts billowing smoke while they're trying to get up a hill, and the whole procession comes to a halt.

 

[smstonypoint]

I have no idea how far they had made it by the time I caught up to them, but about a mile-and-a-half after I got behind them the Taurus starts billowing smoke while they're trying to get up a hill, and the whole procession comes to a halt.

Hey, that was me. Why didn't you stop to help?

Steve

 

[20 20]

Our area is big on Wind Mills. The new kind. The blades are something like 180' long on some of them. They are not a wide load but 3 times the length of a standard Semi.
Chris

We've got the same thing going on up here right now, they're putting in new ones. I have no problem with them, some of the locals ar MAD, don't like them I quess. The only problem I have is all the electricity is going to be shipped down to our states septic tank NY CITY When is NY going to become the 51st state, I'm sick of paying for its BS {sorry for the rant}

 

[LostInTheWoods]

Hey, that was me. Why didn't you stop to help?

Steve

Heck, you made it pretty far then. Carolina is a good ways from here. :laughing: Or did you pick it up here, and were taking it back home?

My truck's only 8 years old. That's apparently too "new" to be pulling a mobile home...this bunch wasn't using much that didn't have a decade or more on it.

 

[smstonypoint]

Heck, you made it pretty far then. Carolina is a good ways from here. :laughing: Or did you pick it up here, and were taking it back home?

Picking it up. Going uphill was bad enough, but going downhill was pure "He!!."

Steve

 

[Diamondpilot]

No problem with a legal wide load...I wasn't clear really but that was my point..he was begging for a ticket.

Here in SC where I saw him he needed a wide load sign, flags on the corners, and he had to be off the road 30 mins before sundown.... he didn't meet any of those, and I bet he didn't have a clue either:confused2:
As for comfortable--I didn't mention when I first saw him he was doing 75 in a 60 weaving lanes, so either very comfortable or......

Yea, I never speed and have all the stuff needed. He is begging for a ticket, like you said.

Chris

 

[Diamondpilot]

You probably won't believe it, but I'm going to post it anyway. About a year-and-a-half ago, I'm driving home from work. A nice, long country drive. Kind of hilly and narrow shoulders. Typical country road.

About half-way home I get behind some folks pulling a mobile home. Not all that dramatic, typically.

But pulling this house are four cars and trucks all chained together in a line...a late 80's or early 90's model Ford F150, a 90's model Ford Taurus, a Chevy Cavalier, and some car I wasn't quite sure what it might have been under all the bondo and multiple paint colors, but looked to be similar to an early 2000's Ford Fiesta.

I have no idea how far they had made it by the time I caught up to them, but about a mile-and-a-half after I got behind them the Taurus starts billowing smoke while they're trying to get up a hill, and the whole procession comes to a halt.

Now that is funny. I have pulled a MH with my 06 F-350 and while they are not terribly heavy, about 14,000#, they sure are big. I only went 3.5 miles and we did it with the help of about 20 volunteers. It was a church donation. We did it on a Sunday morning and it was all back roads at about 35 mph.

What really amazes me about your story is the F-150 had the guts to handle the tongue weight. I am guessing they were in a move or loose it situation. They probably had all the furniture and possessions in it and the weight could have been in the 25,000# range or more.

Chris

 

[smstonypoint]

Now that is funny. I have pulled a MH with my 06 F-350 and while they are not terribly heavy, about 14,000#, they sure are big. I only went 3.5 miles and we did it with the help of about 20 volunteers. It was a church donation. We did it on a Sunday morning and it was all back roads at about 35 mph.

What really amazes me about your story is the F-150 had the guts to handle the tongue weight. I am guessing they were in a move or loose it situation. They probably had all the furniture and possessions in it and the weight could have been in the 25,000# range or more.

Chris

Chris,

You are the towing guru. Any idea about how the folks in KY managed going downhill?

Steve

 

[Diamondpilot]

Chris,

You are the towing guru. Any idea about how the folks in KY managed going downhill?

Steve

It would be scarry.

Chris

 

[FlaDon]

Miller Transfer - Trailers

One of these units was on the road while I was traveling in NC about a week ago. Pilot vehicles front and rear, signs, warning lights, and on curves took both lanes or the pulloff lane to get thru. And it was the baby unit.

 

[Duffster]

Saw this on the road yesterday- no license plate and 3ea 11' Mules crossways on a gooseneck trailer, pulled by a pickup, no wide load signs or anything.
Sorry for the lousy cell phone pic, wanted to get one of the slack jawed driver as I passed but couldn't...

Maybe he is farm exempt or something.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Miller Transfer - Trailers

One of these units was on the road while I was traveling in NC about a week ago. Pilot vehicles front and rear, signs, warning lights, and on curves took both lanes or the pulloff lane to get thru. And it was the baby unit.

Thats the thing we see here Don. Can not wait, they are building a manufacturing facility just down the road from me making wind mills. Its between my home and work. They are also opening a locomotive plant just down the road also. I imagine most of the locomotive stuff will be transported on rails but either way its going to cause traffic.

I guess thats the price you have to pay to have jobs in our area.

Chris

 

[LostInTheWoods]

Now that is funny. I have pulled a MH with my 06 F-350 and while they are not terribly heavy, about 14,000#, they sure are big. I only went 3.5 miles and we did it with the help of about 20 volunteers. It was a church donation. We did it on a Sunday morning and it was all back roads at about 35 mph.

What really amazes me about your story is the F-150 had the guts to handle the tongue weight. I am guessing they were in a move or loose it situation. They probably had all the furniture and possessions in it and the weight could have been in the 25,000# range or more.

Chris

I would not be surprised if they had all their furniture, a few farm animals, and half-a-dozen people in the thing.

As for the F 150, it had certainly seen better days. I'd be surprised if it was "firing on all cylinders", so-to-speak. For that matter, I doubt the drivers were operating an all cylinders, either.

 

[powerstroke444e]

I think they should make a tv show with redneck truckers, there is alot more drama on rural roads with people that move mobile homes than the oversize stuff on Ice roads.