We were on our way up to Canyon Pt. last Tuesday cruising along Roosevelt Lake on highway 188 when we encountered a Highway Patrol unit approaching with the red/blues and headlights flashing. She was doing about 15 mph smack in the center of the two lane highway. I pulled over as far as I could and stopped on the edge of the shoulder. She pulled alongside and said there was a wide load coming. How wide? I asked... Wider than you she replied. But I'm not all that wide I told her. She laughed and said "Lug nut Rule". I said excuse me? This one has a lot more lug nuts than you so stay where you are, "they" will be along shortly and off she drove with a wicked grin on her face. Over the next five minutes ten escort vehicles, 7 of which were Highway Patrol along with 3 trucks came down the road escorting this Monster!
Not really sure just what it was or where it was headed but there are ten axles, 4 tires each BEHIND the truck doing the towing. :S
Not really sure just what it was or where it was headed but there are ten axles, 4 tires each BEHIND the truck doing the towing. :S
2oldman wrote:
South of Ely NV last October. Talk about your serious lug nuts. The police escorted us off to a side road.
I'd bet that load was a decommissioned nuclear reactor on it's way to the Idaho National Laboratory. See them once or twice a year in this area. They come from universities or private companies as "whole units". Could even have been from Hanford. They use secondary roads around metro areas, and heavy haul road whenever possible. Near Ely the roads are built for mining trucks and qualify in that regard.
Once knew a trucker who drove the biggest rig I have ever seen. She was about 5'3", and said everything was power driven. She did not have a load except her jeeps. Counted twenty-eight axles. Think what her tire bill was.
