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OVERSIZED LOAD * Canada - Trucks with football-field-length cargo on way to Alberta
Alberta,CAN -The Billings Gazette (MT, USA), by ED KEMMICK -31 Jan 2009: -- Thanks largely to the booming energy industry, Montana drivers - particularly those who frequent two-lane highways - have been encountering more and more supersize truck traffic... How big? One load that is coming up from the port of Houston and began its passage through Montana on Wednesday is 20 feet wide, slightly more than 20 feet tall and 290 feet long. It has 90 tires on 24 axles and weighs 917,000 pounds - so heavy that two trucks are attached to the rear to help push it along... 
The million-pound load consists of a steam condenser unit that will be use to process oil sands at a project in Saskatchewan. Many of the big loads are headed for the oil sands industry in Saskatchewan and Alberta, while other trucks are hauling giant generator blades and related equipment to a wind farm in Alberta... (Photos by DAVID GRUBBS/Gazette Staff - 1 -above-: R.J. Schultis directs traffic Wednesday near the highway scales in Broadus, helping to move a huge steam condenser to be used in an oil sands process in Canada. Schultis works for Northwest Industrial Rigging in Phoenix and is helping in the transport of the 917,000-pound load to Canada - 2 -below-: This 917,000-pound load rolled past Broadus on Wednesday. A Phoenix-based company is helping move a huge steam condenser to Canada. The equipment is so heavy that two trucks are attached to the rear to help push it along) (SEE VIDEO) Labels: larger loads
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