Tag: oversize loads

Overdrive Radio
Hauling smart — often high, wide and ugly, too — with Owner-Operator of the Year Kevin Kocmich
The complications of any oversize load’s complexity are many. In this Overdrive Radio edition, owner-op Kevin Kocmich shares secrets to their mastery.
August 6, 2020
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Custom Rigs
Bryan Hutchens’ 1996 Peterbilt 379, powering his ‘Generations Express’ independent business
Hutchens’ Okla.-based Generations Express independent business builds on his youth in a trucking family, wrenching on motors similar to the Cat 3406E in this 1996 Peterbilt while his parents hauled reefer freight out of California to various parts.
November 26, 2019
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Business
Do it right, even if it’s ugly
Bit of tribute to the open-deckers running high, wide, heavy, ugly: “Sometimes you get to be Elvis, and sometimes you’re Jed Clampett, but both of them pay the bills. Do it right, even if it’s ugly.”
February 3, 2017
Some days you’re Elvis, some days you’re Jed Clampett.
Business
Belgian heavy-haul trailer mfg. headed to ConExpo
The Belgian trailer manufacturer Faymonville returns to Conexpo in March this year and will showcase a range of heavy-haul trailers made specifically for the North American market.
January 24, 2017
Another view of the MegaMax.
Business
Paul Pate presents ‘WIDE LOAD’
One big load: Video of a “1.7 million-pound transformer moving on Arizona Highway 160 near Red Mesa.”
December 3, 2015
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Hours of Service
Group seeks exemption from 30-minute break rule for oversize/overweight load haulers
The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association has asked FMCSA to grant drivers carrying loads that are oversize or overweight an exemption to the the 30-minute break requirement of the 2013 hours of service rule.
November 24, 2014
Trouble parking and state-imposed restrictions on driving time for oversize loads make complying with the 30-minute break difficult for specialty load haulers, SC&RA argues.
Voices
Get your load on! (5th edition)
More stunning — and novel — photos of reader loads of recent memory in the latest of this occasional series. Find out how to send in your own here.
November 29, 2013
Big Load of Big Bales
Channel 19
‘Stealth plane’ haul to Area 51, now declassified
The declassified story of how the Archangel-12 prototype stealth reconnaissance aircraft — model for the later SR-17 Blackbird — was hauled to Area 51 from California for testing.
August 6, 2013
Moving the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft
Voices
Get your load on! (4th edition)
Bee hives, portable grain bins on lowboy doubles, trackhoes in a dry van, and more photos of reader loads in the latest in this series. Find out how to send in your own here.
June 19, 2013
In mid-March this year, Chris Andreychik reports, “we moved 242 live beehives and about as many empty hives from Fort Myers, Fla., to Bristol” in the same state. For the purpose, “we utilized our 1979 Kenworth K100C,” better known to the haulers, with affection, of course, as “Brutus.” Their “boogie north” took place “in the wee hours of the morning so our cargo wouldn’t fly away. Only got stung once in the process!”
Voices
Get your load on, redux
More photos of hot, heavy, big, tall or just plain odd loads from readers around the U.S. and beyond.
February 22, 2013
Pipe load shuts down bridge
Channel 19
Tornado caught on owner-operators’ webcam
Owner-operators Randy Moyano and Ann Burt (pictured) run in a 1998 Peterbilt pulling a Fontaine RGN with Superior stinger axle for heavy/overdimensional loads, leased to Greentree Transportation. I met the pair a week ago today in Lebanon, Tenn., where I took this picture. They were deadheading west then all the way to Oklahoma to pick […]
April 29, 2011
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