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NRALIFR wrote:JRscooby wrote:NRALIFR wrote:
Looks like it needs a “Wide Load” sign to me.
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Not unless eight and half feet.
It’s at least that.
The trucks bumper is 6’ wide, and my calibrated eyeballs say that’s more than 15” to the end of the extensions. Looks more like 18”, but just for reference license plates are all 12” wide. Compare that to what’s sticking out past the ends of the bumper.
Maybe he knows the width limit, and it’s 1/4” under. :W
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Well no state would issue a permit for that load. And my experience has taught me that few LEOs will notice somebody is a little over without a sign. Sign would cause more problems than solves.
Going off in weeds for a little humor. A company in KC, who's main job is cranes. All their tractors have blanket permits, so a load up to 10 feet wide does not require special calls to state. Some of the booms, they had issues with the cribbing failing because needed to stick out past the side of trailer so far. Management had the shop build some trailers 10 foot wide, to reduce this problem. As long as there is a load over 8.5 feet wide on the trailer, works great. But normally when the big cranes go out, the trucks make a few trips with boom sections. A MT trailer on the ground is not a load. But 2 of them stacked on a 102 can cross the scales.
