Looks intimidating to drive, but it’s actually less stressful than driving an oversize where it’s just under the dimensions to need escort. You don’t get police blocking traffic, you have to share lanes and turn with traffic all around you
I used to drive for a company called Marine Transport out of Augusta Georgia. I've hauled a lot of very large boats. Trust and confidence in your flag team is essential to safe and timely operation. There were six of us. Myself and my wife as drivers and four flag drivers in three SUVs. I kept the same crew together for almost four years. We made a boatload of money hauling everything from brand new yachts to rusted shells going to the scrap yard. And had a lot of fun doing it. edit: sorry about the pun.🙂
Hey brother i used to work for Dudley boat and trailer back in the 80's doing the same thing for 7 years i worked the west coast mostly but lake mead and Havasu were not uncommon I would take the new model Bayliners there for the photos for the new catalogs .I was also the driver for moving the boats for the hydroplane movie Miss Madison .
They are awesome but like everything else in trucking, the large carriers like ATS, EW Wylie and others have figured out how to get away with paying a few extra pennies per mile while stroking the ego of company drivers. Me and my 2 drivers delivered in Medicine Bow, crane parts for the windmill industry. We got offered to make 3 moves each day, each truck, for 5 days. Pay was 2000 per move, 14 miles round trip, they were tearing cranes down and moving to new erection sites. Those poor company drivers sat all week, a shuttle van taking them 31 miles into town to buy food every day. We talked and those guys couldn't believe how much we were making while they sat, earning 250 dollars a day layover pay. Would I trade places, nope, they can keep that welfare bullshit
I've seen some over-the-road traffic lights and sign poles been designed to allow swinging to the side when you need to get through with something that does not fit. And if that is not a feature and you cannot swerve lanes like on the viedeo, then they take a hiab crane and lift those over-the-road poles down to allow the load to pass.
Fellow pilot driver here and I love it when the cops get involved in helping us move a load through a town. People don't always pay attention to my flags and amber lights, but they definitely see those red and blues.
Yeah but you have to hire those law enforcement and the people to lift the power lines and if you damage anything even asphalt that's coming out of your pocket. Yes they make huge bank but everything comes out of your wallet
The cops are all voluntary. Idk about the Cherry pickers and pilots because each contract is different but it’s not cheap at all. But from a business standpoint, they are making a ton more money hauling that equipment compared to the cost to transport it so it’s always beneficial to have these transports.
@@halolover3167easy a million dollar load. Everyone has to be paid before, cop are paid for their time, permits, escorts, etc. High poles keep them from hitting power lines. company pays for anything damaged not the driver. if ur a owner operator then that's different.
Yeah, pretty sure you have to apply to be permitted to apply for permits for the permits. After you permit multiple drug tests and permit a background check so they can run a request for your permit permit.
Correct I've done this hauling multiple mod homes myself key is having great pilots and extra patience tallest load I've hauled was 16-1/2 wide by 19-1/2 tall
@@yungsilvia2507 thanks ain't to bad just gotta remember your height tail swing and stay on route but the state permit office definitely loves to send me down some shit roads at times lol
We have a bridge in the town I work on. The R.R. tracts are clearly marked but many trucks have peeled back their vans🤦. Must be the days they're not paying attention 🥱
@@marykuball1167those trucks are legal dimensions and aren't forced to be on a specific permit routes and the drivers aren't used to worrying about height and obviously bridge signs
The rear chassis assembly of this combination vehicle is also steerable. They're secured in a straight line for the highway, but some have a low profile drivers compartment, some can be controlled remotely & some can be set up to follow the same path as the power unit.
The trailer is called a Schnabel. It has a pony motor on it to power the rear axles. The streerman has to get out of his vehicle , fire up the pony and steer it with a remote. The trailers do have some auto steer but it is limited on what it can do. I've seen some really good steerman.They have a lot of skill.
I work at a paper mill… the city put in new pole traffic lights at the corners of the only intersection that the oversized loaded trucks could go through, and the towing company did all their math months in advanced, told the city that on such and such day they would be leaving the mill with an oversized load and provided the city with a schedule saying 2 of the new pole mounted traffic lights needed to be removed for a time period of around 30 minutes and be ready at a certain time. (Oversized and over weight loads have a lot of restrictions in my area, as to when they can travel, so they adhere to the schedule and permitting) the day and time of their departure, the city had not removed the lights, they told the city again and the city said they didn’t need to remove them, they’ll make the turn. Well the hauler said “F it”, they did their best, took up every inch of the road they could, really good driving, and guess what, took out 2 of the new traffic light poles 😂. Mind you this is a oversized load, with the load weighing in at 172,000 lbs (one of 2 of our largest rolls for the paper machine, and that’s without the bearings, the bearings and housings weight another 14,000 lbs, we remove those) requires a 19 axle rig, 240 feet long to haul this, and yes it has the turn table on the back of the trailer. But the weight restricts them to go only one way because of bridges and their load bearing capacity, and the city thought this truck would make it through the intersection because they never had issues before, but they put in pole mounted traffic lights right in the intersection, there are a couple of islands they put them on, to separate the right turn lanes, the truck has always had to just that island to make the turn.
Too many chiefs not enough Indians, nobody at the city has had to do that work so they assumed it would be fine lol. Thais for the story, it can get funny out there sometimes. -Dusty
I’ve done oversize/heavy haul Trucking. That truck is doing that maneuver because his load is DEFINITELY over height, so has to drive between the traffic lights. You are correct, the bucket truck is stopping ahead to push up ANY lines across the road to make them high enough for the tall load to clear under them 👍🏻
Back in the day, the original heavy haulers were house movers. They had a guy on the roof. When they came to a power line, he lifted it to clear the roof peek and walked it back as the house passed under.
@@WhittaII they still do it)) i seen it , guy with. apole was lifting wires for a high load to pass, here in NJ. However they were not power lines but TV cable wires. power liens are much higher. low hanging are the telephone and cable wires.
I used to work in an industrial little town. One morning trucks were hauling big tanks and a crew was pivoting the streetlight overhang poles to let each truck pass freely. I thought it was very cool. In other words, the poles were designed to quickly rotate around the Z axis.
And the stick on the front of the load helps deflect any unseen lines. The bucket lifts any line, signal, etc that can't be avoided. The real unsung heroes are the route planners buried in some boring office reading maps and getting permits lined. Logistics makes the trucks roll.
I remevergoing through school. It took getting usedto packing up a 48 foot trailr becaueni was used to alittle 20 foot trailer but once I umgot the concept down it was easy.
I remevergoing through school. It took getting usedto packing up a 48 foot trailr becaueni was used to alittle 20 foot trailer but once I got the concept down it was easy.
lookes like a section for a windmill. I used to drive chase on windmill blades. Our loads were about a football field long. Running loads from Fort Madison , Iowa to Clovis New Mexico . It was an interesting job. Got flipped off or cussed at every day. Usually both at the same time.
I worked on a 90 foot long tank and I loaded it on a truck and we measured it and off he went he was going east on highway 10 and 10 is a bouncy highway and when he went under one overpass his airbags were up and the man way caught the last beam of the overpass going about 60 it lifted the tractor into the air and slammed back down the tank came off the trailer it caused a million in damages we got the tank back Saturday morning and we fixed it and I loaded it Monday around noon
Goddamn, I love trucks so much, my grandfather was a truck driver his old life. My father has been a truck driver his whole life and still is a truck driver to this day and I’ve done truck driving on and off since high school,. That guy right there is easily making 2 to 3 dollars a mile, big Baller shit, much respect
Thats right only thing is the bucket truck isnt holding power lines up those are phone and cable lines.. the lowest lines are typically phone, tv, and internet lines 😊
As a heavy haul myself I must say U did well explaining it plus some lights move with breezes its preventing accidental contact I hauled 1 load they had to remove traffic lights & reinstall as I went through them once.
As a utility worker we get the route in advance, so we can be sure that we have the proper clearance. Sometime we have to lay the lines on the ground and build ramp to drive over them.
This is actually a lot easier than people think. A lot easier than driving a 53' trailer. It's quite nice to have an entire team do everything for you, including directing traffic so you can manuever. With a 53' trailer you don't get any of that. You have to plan your route yourself, make turns without traffic control, and determine for yourself what you can drive under and around.
The driver knows how tall his load is. Traffic lights are at a regulated height if you know you're 15ft tall and you know lights are 14 1/2 ft tall, say no more.
some places that have a lot of heavy oversize loads, have some of their streetlight poles on a swivel base. and yeah, you're right about these guys getting bags of money for some of these jobs.
You are 100% right about the lights being lower at the base. And on a interstate close to where our shop is anytime the driver had a CAT 330 or 345 on deck, he knew to get in the hammer lane and immediately back to the exit ramp. One day a out of town contractor brought a rental back to the CAT dealership and his lowboy was broke and the boom was wiped clean of its lines. Not to mention the huge water leak on the bridge.
This is what I do for a living. I'm one of the traffic control pilot cars. The cherry picker that you saw at the end. Lifts all the power lines, phone lines, traffic lights...whatever reaches across the road completely they will lift up. The reason why go around it is that in order to lift the hard pole, there is often several steps and takes alot of time. It is much faster to block the intersection and just go around it. Safer and much much faster. With the load that tall and that long there will be police officers the entire way, across all state lines. It's a slow process but if "fun".
I’m not sure what I saw but one time me and my mom were in the car and there was a massive piece of something on a trailer. It had to have been 200ft long. It took over a minute for the truck to drive past the light. I couldn’t see the front of it by the time it passed. I was a kid and there weren’t so many camera cell phones back then but I would’ve recorded it if I had the opportunity. It kinda looked like a piece to a rocket or something. It was just excessive and I’m not sure why it traveled through our little town of Dayton tx but it was there…. Stopping all traffic as it drove by. 😂
"I love when companies that do 90% of road damage hog the entire infrastructure" Says the kid who hogs bandwidth for video-game graphics and processing speed. At least heavy hauling of infrastructure components serves a constructive purpose.
The only problem I had hauling oversize was some of the restrictions we had to run during the day was OK but then to go places like LA you could only go through at night then no hauling through some places on weekends while other places only wanted you going through on weekends.
European here. Overhead power lines are crazy to see. You might come accross them maybe in ultra rural, super old, almost unpopulated parts of Europe, but in general most power lines are underground. I think that has to do with the urbanisation in Europe, but also because we rebuilt the whole continent over and over and over after our wars in the last hundred years, most places just got renovated at one point. I got very anxious having them around when I visited upstate NY and Florida (Disney, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami), even in urban settings they were ubiquitous, and I was constantly afraid of them falling on me or them being hit by a car or a storm.
I am a retired power company lineman/ trouble man/ technician and I've assisted with many oversize loads through my service area. Just know it's a lot easier and cheaper to go around fixed objects than it is to move them. Flexible stuff like power lines (telephone & tv cables) can be lifted up to clear most tall loads after we kill the power to them. Street light circuits are our lowest wires to the street. So they are usually just raised up to clear. But high votage wires can kill. So we turn them off. Street lights and traffic signals are very expensive to move. So they just drive around those they can.
I took a high, wide and long tank to 2 Prudential Plaza in downtown Chicago. The move was a cakewalk to the weigh station west of town on I 80. From there to downtown was done starting at 2 am. There were 2 pilot cars, 4 highway patrol cars, and countless city and utility personal. We got the last leg done by 4 am. That was the most complicated move I ever did.
As a wellpad installer, a lot of the routes to the site are hard enough to navigate in a pickup truck. I'm always amazed with the trucks hauling big loads like this show up.
This is so freaking awesome to me. Maybe it’s because I’ve always wanted to be a trucker, maybe it’s because it’s such a heavy and huge load and maybe it’s because streets get shut down and traffic gets stopped. Or maybe it’s all of the above. What’s also gangstar is the people working logistics. I have the utmost respect for this department. All that coordination between law enforcement, city workers, energy companies and the fact that they have to know all the routes to take. Amazing! ✌🏽
Looks intimidating to drive, but it’s actually less stressful than driving an oversize where it’s just under the dimensions to need escort. You don’t get police blocking traffic, you have to share lanes and turn with traffic all around you
I was a heavy hauler for 9 years and you right bigger it's easier mainly when you going but your self and have to go into a big metro
Intimidating, ? Exactly 💯
So wrong , lot drivers look for another job due to the stress .
@@k.p.5736hopefully they find new companies with those little trash cans in the men's bathroom for their tampons
@@Chad-qe6yv I hope that works out for you , and you get those conveniences you seek .
Me thinking this was American Truck Simulator at first 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Right. I was like oh dang this game looks good. Let me check it out 🤣
You truckers play Trucking simulators LOL!
You truckers play Trucking simulators LOL!
@@IsraelCountryCube I’m not a trucker. And people are entitled to play whatever they want, someone’s occupation has nothing to do with gaming.
I used to drive for a company called Marine Transport out of Augusta Georgia.
I've hauled a lot of very large boats.
Trust and confidence in your flag team is essential to safe and timely operation.
There were six of us. Myself and my wife as drivers and four flag drivers in three SUVs. I kept the same crew together for almost four years. We made a boatload of money hauling everything from brand new yachts to rusted shells going to the scrap yard.
And had a lot of fun doing it.
edit: sorry about the pun.🙂
I didn't even catch the pun until you pointed it out! 😜
Beach comber friendly comment Driver all good
Hey brother i used to work for Dudley boat and trailer back in the 80's doing the same thing for 7 years i worked the west coast mostly but lake mead and Havasu were not uncommon I would take the new model Bayliners there for the photos for the new catalogs .I was also the driver for moving the boats for the hydroplane movie Miss Madison .
My friend. Do you mind telling me how much you were making? I'm always trying to improve. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Augusta? That’s only like 2 hours from me, nice!
As a former heavy hauler...I loved those ''look at me'' loads
They are cool to look at
They are awesome but like everything else in trucking, the large carriers like ATS, EW Wylie and others have figured out how to get away with paying a few extra pennies per mile while stroking the ego of company drivers.
Me and my 2 drivers delivered in Medicine Bow, crane parts for the windmill industry. We got offered to make 3 moves each day, each truck, for 5 days. Pay was 2000 per move, 14 miles round trip, they were tearing cranes down and moving to new erection sites. Those poor company drivers sat all week, a shuttle van taking them 31 miles into town to buy food every day. We talked and those guys couldn't believe how much we were making while they sat, earning 250 dollars a day layover pay. Would I trade places, nope, they can keep that welfare bullshit
@@TheRoadhammer379damn 250 a day is welfare sht 😭😭🤣🤣
@@kwilliams3161250 a day is 1250 a week if you work 5 days what are you on about
@@kwilliams3161Ain't nobody making 250 a day from welfare. More like 250 a month.
no they weave back and forth like that to warm up the tires the race is going to start soon
😂😂😂
😂
When's the figure 8 demo start? 😅
I’d love to see that tbh, two trucks carrying massive cargos racing
@@kayagorzan We have drag racing of trucks with loads but no indy style trucks with loads i don't believe. .
As I pilot car you are correct I hate how low lights are in some towns it gets old but when you have police escorts it makes it easier
Thank you for your insight 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I've seen some over-the-road traffic lights and sign poles been designed to allow swinging to the side when you need to get through with something that does not fit. And if that is not a feature and you cannot swerve lanes like on the viedeo, then they take a hiab crane and lift those over-the-road poles down to allow the load to pass.
I love police escorts
Fellow pilot driver here and I love it when the cops get involved in helping us move a load through a town. People don't always pay attention to my flags and amber lights, but they definitely see those red and blues.
Matt how to become a car pilot?
In Alberta, Canada, the traffic lights have pins that can be removed so the light poles can be swung out of the way for oversize loads 😎
That's awesome. Planning ahead
The pins are made of melted down Canadian semi-automatic rifles.
Vote for Pierre and let’s get our guns back!
Really cool
Cool ,good to know
Absolute DAWGS. These dudes deserve every penny. Bad dudes
I agree
Heavy Haul is definitely where the money is
No its not
It is as an O/O
@@jojobeansie3114it’s good money 💰
Nope
@@mikesenuty7162 you a liar 🤥
I can't imagine the cost to transport something like this. Much admiration for the driver.
Yeah but you have to hire those law enforcement and the people to lift the power lines and if you damage anything even asphalt that's coming out of your pocket. Yes they make huge bank but everything comes out of your wallet
It costs atleast 20 dollars. Hope that helps 😊
The cops are all voluntary. Idk about the Cherry pickers and pilots because each contract is different but it’s not cheap at all. But from a business standpoint, they are making a ton more money hauling that equipment compared to the cost to transport it so it’s always beneficial to have these transports.
like 5 bucks!
@@halolover3167easy a million dollar load. Everyone has to be paid before, cop are paid for their time, permits, escorts, etc. High poles keep them from hitting power lines. company pays for anything damaged not the driver. if ur a owner operator then that's different.
Permits on top of permits. Great job and it takes a special breed. Huge respect.
Yeah, pretty sure you have to apply to be permitted to apply for permits for the permits. After you permit multiple drug tests and permit a background check so they can run a request for your permit permit.
@@slightlyevolvedYou need to also take a test to be qualified to test for a permit that permits you to test for a permit.
Correct I've done this hauling multiple mod homes myself key is having great pilots and extra patience tallest load I've hauled was 16-1/2 wide by 19-1/2 tall
Respect man, I’ve seen a few times of heavy haulin and it looks tough, props man 🎉
@@yungsilvia2507 thanks ain't to bad just gotta remember your height tail swing and stay on route but the state permit office definitely loves to send me down some shit roads at times lol
We have a bridge in the town I work on. The R.R. tracts are clearly marked but many trucks have peeled back their vans🤦. Must be the days they're not paying attention 🥱
@@marykuball1167 folks like that are just steering wheel holders but it can happen to anyone just gotta be aware of you're surroundings
@@marykuball1167those trucks are legal dimensions and aren't forced to be on a specific permit routes and the drivers aren't used to worrying about height and obviously bridge signs
The rear chassis assembly of this combination vehicle is also steerable. They're secured in a straight line for the highway, but some have a low profile drivers compartment, some can be controlled remotely & some can be set up to follow the same path as the power unit.
The trailer is called a Schnabel. It has a pony motor on it to power the rear axles. The streerman has to get out of his vehicle , fire up the pony and steer it with a remote. The trailers do have some auto steer but it is limited on what it can do. I've seen some really good steerman.They have a lot of skill.
@@Scott-fx1vjThis is not a Schnabel. This is a perimeter.
It seams to follow the trucks track!
Those trucks swerve out like that to assert their dominance on the road.
I work at a paper mill… the city put in new pole traffic lights at the corners of the only intersection that the oversized loaded trucks could go through, and the towing company did all their math months in advanced, told the city that on such and such day they would be leaving the mill with an oversized load and provided the city with a schedule saying 2 of the new pole mounted traffic lights needed to be removed for a time period of around 30 minutes and be ready at a certain time. (Oversized and over weight loads have a lot of restrictions in my area, as to when they can travel, so they adhere to the schedule and permitting) the day and time of their departure, the city had not removed the lights, they told the city again and the city said they didn’t need to remove them, they’ll make the turn. Well the hauler said “F it”, they did their best, took up every inch of the road they could, really good driving, and guess what, took out 2 of the new traffic light poles 😂. Mind you this is a oversized load, with the load weighing in at 172,000 lbs (one of 2 of our largest rolls for the paper machine, and that’s without the bearings, the bearings and housings weight another 14,000 lbs, we remove those) requires a 19 axle rig, 240 feet long to haul this, and yes it has the turn table on the back of the trailer. But the weight restricts them to go only one way because of bridges and their load bearing capacity, and the city thought this truck would make it through the intersection because they never had issues before, but they put in pole mounted traffic lights right in the intersection, there are a couple of islands they put them on, to separate the right turn lanes, the truck has always had to just that island to make the turn.
Too many chiefs not enough Indians, nobody at the city has had to do that work so they assumed it would be fine lol. Thais for the story, it can get funny out there sometimes. -Dusty
Freaking love the team work!
I’ve done oversize/heavy haul Trucking. That truck is doing that maneuver because his load is DEFINITELY over height, so has to drive between the traffic lights. You are correct, the bucket truck is stopping ahead to push up ANY lines across the road to make them high enough for the tall load to clear under them 👍🏻
man that looks hard but really fun
That's what she said
@@unstablenester941 lmfao
Think it would be fun if you could set the pedestrian setting to none 😂😂
Try doing this in South America Andes mountains in guerrilla territory then come talk to me
@@edmundcowan9131
I'll take that anyday over driving a delivery truck in east L.A.
If you only get robbed once it's a good day...
Back in the day, the original heavy haulers were house movers. They had a guy on the roof. When they came to a power line, he lifted it to clear the roof peek and walked it back as the house passed under.
Just for fun, Google "peek".
Sounds like an awful experience, thank God they don't do that anymore
@@WhittaII they still do it)) i seen it , guy with. apole was lifting wires for a high load to pass, here in NJ. However they were not power lines but TV cable wires. power liens are much higher. low hanging are the telephone and cable wires.
Can you shut up about the old days we're in a new age
You are right that's exactly why they do that😅😅 I did that for 15 years but we try to avoid town as much as possible😊😊
Pay?
I used to work in an industrial little town. One morning trucks were hauling big tanks and a crew was pivoting the streetlight overhang poles to let each truck pass freely. I thought it was very cool. In other words, the poles were designed to quickly rotate around the Z axis.
And the stick on the front of the load helps deflect any unseen lines. The bucket lifts any line, signal, etc that can't be avoided. The real unsung heroes are the route planners buried in some boring office reading maps and getting permits lined. Logistics makes the trucks roll.
You can see it in action as the lines ahead of the held power line move up and over the load right at the end of the clip.
And I get nervous backing up a 4×7 trailer 😂
Harder than one might think. Short radius jackknife.
@@JW...-oj5iwright 😂 it's actually harder
Don't feel bad about it. I'm a truck driver now but when I first started training I couldn't even back a straight line!
I remevergoing through school. It took getting usedto packing up a 48 foot trailr becaueni was used to alittle 20 foot trailer but once I umgot the concept down it was easy.
I remevergoing through school. It took getting usedto packing up a 48 foot trailr becaueni was used to alittle 20 foot trailer but once I got the concept down it was easy.
lookes like a section for a windmill. I used to drive chase on windmill blades. Our loads were about a football field long. Running loads from Fort Madison , Iowa to Clovis New Mexico . It was an interesting job. Got flipped off or cussed at every day. Usually both at the same time.
probably flipped off and cussed at by the same people who whine and cry about how fossil fuels are oh-so-bad and everything needs to be green.
Exciting stuff for sure. Love being a part of the team👊🏼
I worked on a 90 foot long tank and I loaded it on a truck and we measured it and off he went he was going east on highway 10 and 10 is a bouncy highway and when he went under one overpass his airbags were up and the man way caught the last beam of the overpass going about 60 it lifted the tractor into the air and slammed back down the tank came off the trailer it caused a million in damages we got the tank back Saturday morning and we fixed it and I loaded it Monday around noon
Did High Pole for 21yrs, your description of the maneuver was spot on
That’s one hell of a doobie, Cheech & Chong would be proud!😂😂
Led Zeppelin 😂
That job should come with a prescription!! LOL
😂😂 bruh u r gonna cause another Chernobyl.
Goddamn, I love trucks so much, my grandfather was a truck driver his old life. My father has been a truck driver his whole life and still is a truck driver to this day and I’ve done truck driving on and off since high school,. That guy right there is easily making 2 to 3 dollars a mile, big Baller shit, much respect
I love how every single over sized load is pulled by a small truck it puts the cherry on top to show how much power they have
Thats right only thing is the bucket truck isnt holding power lines up those are phone and cable lines.. the lowest lines are typically phone, tv, and internet lines 😊
The hard part would be finding a parking spot at the Pilot 😂
Semi truck drivers are the best drivers out there
Definitely a coordinated effort
He done exactly what you said, to miss traffic lights. You dont want to hit anything at all
As a heavy haul myself I must say U did well explaining it plus some lights move with breezes its preventing accidental contact I hauled 1 load they had to remove traffic lights & reinstall as I went through them once.
Really great 👍 job..this isn't his 1st rodeo...
This act is all about taking control of the entire intersection for safe passing.
When I was maxi heavy haul I used to love loads like these 😂
You just feel like you're the KING OF THE ROAD 😂
Where I live oversized loads are so common that traffic lights are built that the pole can swing 90 degrees and out of the way.
Best Truckers ever. There is so much that goes into getting things like this moved.
I bet it does
Nobody else saw the tiny kitten? He is as super courteous and gave that lil guy plenty of room.
Deym props to the driver and the team
As a utility worker we get the route in advance, so we can be sure that we have the proper clearance. Sometime we have to lay the lines on the ground and build ramp to drive over them.
Oh ok that’s cool to know thank you
You are absolutely correct. These drivers are amazing how they can make these hauls
Let's not forget that they have to pay for the lift trucks lifting the lines and escorts. That's why they charge so much.
gangsters of the highway and making all the money lol.! 😂❤
This is actually a lot easier than people think. A lot easier than driving a 53' trailer. It's quite nice to have an entire team do everything for you, including directing traffic so you can manuever. With a 53' trailer you don't get any of that. You have to plan your route yourself, make turns without traffic control, and determine for yourself what you can drive under and around.
Yes your right it is to be sure they clear the lights !
Nice run... Professionals of the highway not thugs... Only responsible people have permits...❤❤❤
The driver knows how tall his load is.
Traffic lights are at a regulated height if you know you're 15ft tall and you know lights are 14 1/2 ft tall, say no more.
some places that have a lot of heavy oversize loads, have some of their streetlight poles on a swivel base. and yeah, you're right about these guys getting bags of money for some of these jobs.
That's exactly right....
Your Commentary is spot-on...👍
You are 100% right about the lights being lower at the base. And on a interstate close to where our shop is anytime the driver had a CAT 330 or 345 on deck, he knew to get in the hammer lane and immediately back to the exit ramp. One day a out of town contractor brought a rental back to the CAT dealership and his lowboy was broke and the boom was wiped clean of its lines. Not to mention the huge water leak on the bridge.
An oversized load? That's an understatement.
Heavy haulage, both a skill and an art.
I-15 north just filled with these guys.
They come through our town all the time. It’s quite a process hauling everything
Mad respect for these dudes here
That's exactly why he did that. I am a heavy hauler.
Can a heavy hauler make 120k plus a year, Tia.
You absolutely right. I’m a heavy hauler, you have to cognizant of all power lines, bridges, tree limbs, street lights, etc.
I've seen this when I was a kid trucking is my dream
for someone that lifts the lines for oversize loads i tell u now always a fun time running with these guys
i just wanted to say how this looks fun for all parties involved, except maybe for the trucker guy. i imagine he can get stressed
This is what I do for a living. I'm one of the traffic control pilot cars. The cherry picker that you saw at the end. Lifts all the power lines, phone lines, traffic lights...whatever reaches across the road completely they will lift up. The reason why go around it is that in order to lift the hard pole, there is often several steps and takes alot of time. It is much faster to block the intersection and just go around it. Safer and much much faster. With the load that tall and that long there will be police officers the entire way, across all state lines. It's a slow process but if "fun".
One of the few people out there who have a legitimate reason to break the rules of the road
That’s pretty freaking cool 😎
GOD BLESS THIS TRUCKDRIVERS
Graphics in games are getting so great that I thought it was a game at first 😂
Finally a driver who absolutely knows his height across the entire top, and no, he ain't deflating tires to get unstuck.
I love to be one of those drivers. Slow and steady wins the race.
I’m not sure what I saw but one time me and my mom were in the car and there was a massive piece of something on a trailer. It had to have been 200ft long. It took over a minute for the truck to drive past the light. I couldn’t see the front of it by the time it passed. I was a kid and there weren’t so many camera cell phones back then but I would’ve recorded it if I had the opportunity. It kinda looked like a piece to a rocket or something. It was just excessive and I’m not sure why it traveled through our little town of Dayton tx but it was there…. Stopping all traffic as it drove by. 😂
I love when companies that do 90% of road damage hog the entire infrastructure
"I love when companies that do 90% of road damage hog the entire infrastructure"
Says the kid who hogs bandwidth for video-game graphics and processing speed.
At least heavy hauling of infrastructure components serves a constructive purpose.
Honey, my advil bottle for the year is on the way.
You are 100% correct my friend stay away from traffic lights, water hydrants etc
Yup...that makes sense now...good job
The only problem I had hauling oversize was some of the restrictions we had to run during the day was OK but then to go places like LA you could only go through at night then no hauling through some places on weekends while other places only wanted you going through on weekends.
European here. Overhead power lines are crazy to see. You might come accross them maybe in ultra rural, super old, almost unpopulated parts of Europe, but in general most power lines are underground. I think that has to do with the urbanisation in Europe, but also because we rebuilt the whole continent over and over and over after our wars in the last hundred years, most places just got renovated at one point.
I got very anxious having them around when I visited upstate NY and Florida (Disney, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami), even in urban settings they were ubiquitous, and I was constantly afraid of them falling on me or them being hit by a car or a storm.
I am a retired power company lineman/ trouble man/ technician and I've assisted with many oversize loads through my service area. Just know it's a lot easier and cheaper to go around fixed objects than it is to move them. Flexible stuff like power lines (telephone & tv cables) can be lifted up to clear most tall loads after we kill the power to them. Street light circuits are our lowest wires to the street. So they are usually just raised up to clear. But high votage wires can kill. So we turn them off. Street lights and traffic signals are very expensive to move. So they just drive around those they can.
It’s always been the closer to the dirt you get the more money you make
That trucker make bank that day
You nailed it.
Much respect to the oversized and heavy haulers
I used to haul houses. The beauty of the job is that every day is an adventure. The problem with the job is that every day is an adventure.
I took a high, wide and long tank to 2 Prudential Plaza in downtown Chicago. The move was a cakewalk to the weigh station west of town on I 80. From there to downtown was done starting at 2 am. There were 2 pilot cars, 4 highway patrol cars, and countless city and utility personal. We got the last leg done by 4 am. That was the most complicated move I ever did.
Its always cool to watch yhid how organized it is
As a wellpad installer, a lot of the routes to the site are hard enough to navigate in a pickup truck. I'm always amazed with the trucks hauling big loads like this show up.
Looks clean from the air. Nice song pick
I'm a pilot/escort driver. That is exactly why the maneuver was done.
Applaud the drivers skills
I see my big tank that holds my soda has arrived! 😂😂😂
My uncle does trucking Ike this, so fucking cool watching him miss every pole power line and curb with a truck as long as a city block lol
everyone gangsta til the driver's gps says "make a u-turn"
That’s a hall of fame driver💪
This is so freaking awesome to me. Maybe it’s because I’ve always wanted to be a trucker, maybe it’s because it’s such a heavy and huge load and maybe it’s because streets get shut down and traffic gets stopped.
Or maybe it’s all of the above.
What’s also gangstar is the people working logistics. I have the utmost respect for this department. All that coordination between law enforcement, city workers, energy companies and the fact that they have to know all the routes to take.
Amazing!
✌🏽
That much teamwork must be nice.
Man i can't believe I actually thought this was ATS. That game has so.e good graphics
Those rear wheel drive trailers are nuts. The turns ive seen them nake boggles my mind
Awesome!❤
nice team work great job fellas 👏