Trip Report - Nogales to Sayulita Pt 1
We’re making our usual journey to Sayulita in 3 stages. While in the past I liked to pay some attention, this year we are compelled to record the details of our journey south a little more aggressivel...
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Some PFP units in pickups are carrying portable axle scales. Mainly on heavily used highways and especially on toll roads. Toll road owners scream their head off when 80 ton rigs tear up their 2" thick asphalt.
When I pass another 40' flatbed with a 3-axle trailer loaded down to the point where all 24 tires are bulging because of rebar overloading from Mittal in Lazaro I'll remember all of Mexico's strict laws about cargo weight. The trucks are bound north along Mex 200. Flatbed trailers normally have a natural arch. These puppies sag in the middle. Passing a "X" village one tore an asphalt tope right off the pavement. I had to thread my way past the blocks. When a "traylor" blew out a tire passing through the pueblo at 0300 it woke a lot of people up. Sounded like a bomb going off.
Friends visiting in 2008 are steel experts. When they saw one of these monsters, they whipped out their calculators and estimated end area by length (length was around 20 meters). Eighty to eighty eight tons of CARGO. Yeah that right - TONS. They could not believe their eyes. So heavy that when the tractor first starts out it almost pulls the front tires off the ground.
These boys travel by night along Mex 200, when the PFP boys are home sawing logs. It doesn't matter. Only las Marinas and SSP in convoy patrol Mex 200 day or night between La Mira and Tecoman, Col.
Ya never wanna tell whoppers about your fish to people who live along the river.
When I pass another 40' flatbed with a 3-axle trailer loaded down to the point where all 24 tires are bulging because of rebar overloading from Mittal in Lazaro I'll remember all of Mexico's strict laws about cargo weight. The trucks are bound north along Mex 200. Flatbed trailers normally have a natural arch. These puppies sag in the middle. Passing a "X" village one tore an asphalt tope right off the pavement. I had to thread my way past the blocks. When a "traylor" blew out a tire passing through the pueblo at 0300 it woke a lot of people up. Sounded like a bomb going off.
Friends visiting in 2008 are steel experts. When they saw one of these monsters, they whipped out their calculators and estimated end area by length (length was around 20 meters). Eighty to eighty eight tons of CARGO. Yeah that right - TONS. They could not believe their eyes. So heavy that when the tractor first starts out it almost pulls the front tires off the ground.
These boys travel by night along Mex 200, when the PFP boys are home sawing logs. It doesn't matter. Only las Marinas and SSP in convoy patrol Mex 200 day or night between La Mira and Tecoman, Col.
Ya never wanna tell whoppers about your fish to people who live along the river.
