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 Date: 4-23-08
This over size load was sitting in Havre, MT when I spotted it. The huge oversize load was sitting in the yard next to a tire store. I stopped and spoke with an
employee at the tire store, I wanted to find out what I could but the guy only knew what it was, where it was going, and how long it had been sitting in their lot.
The load is a GE generator for a power plant. I found out that it was waiting for custom clearance into Canada. It
had already been sitting in this location for a week. It was bound for Edmonton, Albertia, the load originating in
Houston Texas. No one seemed to know when it would continue on it's journey. Even the police department did not know when it was scheduled to pass the rest of the way through the town.
This load is pulled by a four axle W900 Kenworth and pushed by a similar W900 model truck with concrete slabs strapped to the frame for weight.
  
The trailer under this particular load has 14 axles on each side of the load, that's 112 tires on the ground. The tire
size is 235/75R 17.5. The trailer axles are not equipped with automatic slack adjustors so that means 56 slack adjustors to adjust. The gross weight for a load like this can go up to 450,000 pounds.
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