Agreed. It looks like it means business.

I wouldn't have thought so, anyway!😱😜

It's 300 tonnes per load, but spread across at least 160 wheels. So less than 2 tonnes per wheel. That's less than a typical HGV. I wouldn't want to risk testing it out myself, but steel toes would probably be fine, provided it wasn't so far up the foot as to hit the unprotected arch.

@@misterflibble9799 Most steel toecaps are only designed to take up to 1.5 tonnes weight on the toes, but if you have ever had anything heavy on your toecaps you know the back edge tends to dig in to your foot anyway, they are basically designed to stop you receiving life changing injuries but you would still receive some injuries below max weight, over that and they actually make the situation worse because they now have to remove your foot from inside the steel toecap. Still would rather wear them than not though had an accident in them one day and ended up with a cut half way through the steel, if i had not been wearing them i would have lost half my foot, as it was i still severely broke my ankle.

@Lancashirelad Just as bad then! The gas energy held in the equialent oil "barrel" would mean gas is now costing four times as much as a barrel of crude.

@Lancashirelad Not convinced of that. I think those cylindrical tanks are to hold extra compressed air. Presumably the multi-axle load platform has air-operated brakes, and thus needs a lot more air supply than a traditional semi-trailer. Looks like they have a transverse-mounted diesel tank just behind the cab (underneath the aforementioned air tanks).

When calculating such transports you usually do not calculate the fuel costs separatly. These are contained in the tractor calculation which are usually based on a daily rate. Either way the fuel costs would make appr. 5 to 10 % of the daily tractor rate.

@Lancashirelad dont think diesels can run on gas

@Lancashirelad thats quite amazing never they could do that cheers

Neither

I' d doubt the 600 tons either way. The 5.5-bridge is good enough for a 550 ton load but the axle setup tells of a maximum of 360 tons for the girder trailer. Plus appr. 50 tons for the pushing and pulling tractors would make it at least 460 tons in total.

@@erikrobin6547 Is it not 16.5x20=330tons or am I out of touch with axle loads?

@@erikrobin6547 Faktor 5.5 maximum load is 350 tons, the trailer weight 63,7 tons. Thats the reason why his name is Faktor 5.5. His own weight 5.5 times is the load weight. One of the transformers weight 230 tons plus the trailer you have 300 tons. The axle setup is just important for the pressure for the roads. 2x10 axle means 15 tons each axle. Butt this heavy trailers have special axle with 8 tires each axle. Means your pressure is und 12 tons each axle.

I would’ve thought so.

Yeah you would love this rolling past your bedroom window at 3am. Cost is probably the major factor, plod availability, lots of roads are closed at night for maintenance, who knows?

I've heard via Police officer contacts of mine that daytime abnormal load movements are better moved in daylight hours as they are more easily controlled on the grounds of visibility, being able to easily control the traffic, onlookers, locals and the communities, local councils and authorities involved along the route.

That sounds just like one of those "couldn't the police have shot the escaping murderer in the hand rather than in the middle of his body?" questions.

Too dangerous to assess and complete at night.

Seemed to be a transformer.