takes extreme trucking to a whole new level.

FYI our roads are up to 85 cm (33.5") thick from base to surface - that's enough for busy airport runways; and the maximum length for standard trucks (so no heavy /oversize load etc) is 100 feet, that's also longer than in the US

i helped build the power plant where that went. it looks like one peice but its actually 3 or 4, and when they moved it they had an electric company crew with them to take down power lines and a bridge crew to build temp bridges over the real ones to hold the weight of it

AMAZING..

Another day at the office for the hauling company. The big job is not to transport it but to plan for the transport and get all necessary permits in place.

Well... my point is that their laws allow a lot more weight on a lot less axles. Their bridges also seems to handle a lot more weight, a lot easier. Permit processes here in North America is really complicated. Needs huge configurations as opposed to Europe or Australia, to name just a few...

I'm pretty sure USPS has those flat rate boxes could have been a lot less hassle

you're filming from an R44, right? Can't see it exactly in the vid, but the cockpit looks like a Robinson and the sound is very familiar :) And is this guy with the camera someone from TV? I think so.... And why aren't you flying the heli? :D

I think destroying the bridge and going through would have been less of a hassle than that corner shit, lol.

C'est vraiment les américains ça, pour une charge de 20 m de long ils leurs font un convoi de 100 m de long alors que chez nous en Europe ils mettent un mille-pattes, une plate-forme avec une centaine de roues pour une longueur de 40 m de long maxi !

Its an R44. The door seam in 00:28 - 00:42 is different in a 22. In 1:20, the shadow completely gives it away; the cabin is too long to be a 22, the mast too high and the boom too long. In 1:50 you can see the safety belt for the front left seat. Not only are the belts in a 22 different but it would be impossible to see one at that angle because you would be sitting in the main fuel tank.

Don't go overboard mate, lest he hoist you with that petard. AFAIK it's about 55-60ft for standard artics or 60-65 for rigid body plus box trailer type trucks (16.5 and 18 metres), which is roughly the same as what's allowed in the US.

read a heavyhaul bridge book that shows axle sets and limits on length and width then say somthing like that

I see sombody broke into permit hell and then won this contract.

Will the Mammoet rigs run at 75 km/hr like the trestle heavy-hauls they used to transport the SCE reactor vessels? I kinda doubt it.

HEAVY DUTY

Perkins doing an additional push/pull?

Its cool

not always the case some states require different axle spacing some states recognize length and width while some dont give a shit long as you have a blue billion tires under it same goes to spread axle trailers some states allow 40k on 2 axles spread some allow 40k closed some only want 5 foot of spread to accomplish this trailers like this are used to spread the weight trailers like your talking about can not be bridged anywhere that i know of hince this is why those companys take there own

I would like to know how much does it cost to transport that bit per mile... :)

I like the Goldhofers or Scheuerles a lot more than this type of trailer they use in the video... but the european hydraulic modular trailers would fail US bridge regulations... This long configuration shown on the video is actually allowed to drive over bridges. I guess road network in North America is not built as strong as the european is...

@MrDriftspirit I expect you to keep your opinion, good for you. I wasn't arguing with you nor was I trying to get you to change your opinion. Being as how I pull a transporter very similar to the one in this video, I was just wondering where do you get your information?? There are only a handful or two that can successfully move something like this in AMERICA, so I would still like to know where you get your information... Oh, I forgot, you just have an opinion, funny. Anyway good day to you.

Why not assemble the generator on the spot...?

dID IT DIED? An homage to the pioneers of early video perusal 2001 BD ( before DSL)

i bet its hard af to back up

@grangeroo More likely the rig was too big to fit under the overpass, so they had to go around. -- Captain Obvious

every one who isn`t experienced in heavy< haulage would be very impressed. ok, this lenght of the whole transport is it, but its so ponderous. with german equipment would this transport be much faster and not so clumsy around corners. beleif me, i`m heavy haulage expert since 10 years, got 10000ends of pictures and hundrets of videos. this here is ponderous equipment.

heavy...

Got news for you, bub. Our roads are better built than European roads. We haul longer loads, heavier loads, and more freight by truck, than they do in Europe. Our bridge laws require so many axles per load, with more axles on a trailer running east of the Mississippi, and less on trailers running west of the Mississippi.

That poor green fire truck. Maybe someday it will ripen to RED like it should be.

why couldn't they just fedex it?

Why not put it on the Antonov 225 :D

@MrDriftspirit Hey 10 yrs expert, (funny), the reason this suspension system is used and there are so many wheels and they are spaced out is because in this country, we have bridge weight laws. Therefore, it is not so ponderous, as you put it. Everyone in the industry has 1000's of pictures, what does that mean??? In AMERICA THE LAWS dictate the type of configuration of transporter we use!!!!! German equipment and mentality is just to add more axles, but you don't spread them out!!!!

What was the point of using a helicopter? It seems rather unnecessary.

@robert9291 ponderous ponderous ponderous. i keep my opinion. other companies in the usa use better and more versatile equipment. no more arguments. have a nice day

@MrDriftspirit Your right. This system is ridiculous, poorly engineered and dangerous. Trailers that are 40-50 years old (Crane) are far more advanced than this and present day such as Nicolas, Cometto and Goldhofer leaves this redundant.

So that's why your gross weight limit is 80,000 lbs (36.3 tonnes) whereas ours is the oh so much lighter... er... 44.0 tonnes (96,916 lbs), then, is it? (For 6-axles ... 5-axles are allowed 40t) Hmm. Oh and similar individual axle loads (8.5, 10.5 or 11.5 tonnes dep on class vs your 9.1t maximum), very similar width/length limits, and a greater recommended maximum height to the tune of a full 2ft? Yes, our trucks are so small and puny compared to your red-blooded all-American monsters :D