From the road...

CDLLife: Mapping company wants to pay drivers to use their dash cameras.

https://cdllife.com/2020/global-mapping-network-looking-to-pay-truckers-for-contributing/

 

@dtalbott and all the rest of you on the road - be safe these next few days

 

https://m.cdllife.com/post/5fa07ff81ed69d0024f8e601

 

Reefer Madness , needs to lay off the reefer

 

^^ very cool...

 

The Sikhs are great people. A lot of others could learn from them.

 

220' turbine wind blade being transported

 

I wonder what the wind limit is on that job.

2 knots?

 

I'm wondering how much "counter weight" they have on the trailer.
Probably less than I would guess.

 

Overhead wires will certainly be a problem on that route.

 

...and bridges.

 

That's not photoshop? That seems like a preposterous way to move something that size. Just the things mentioned by the guys above would make transporting a blade that size with a truck in nearly impossible.

 

These aren't much smaller, given that that's a semi with a regular-sized 53' trailer parked nose-even with the semis hauling the blades.

 

Yeah, I've seen those on the road a few times. There is/was a windmill blade factory in Little Rock about 10 years ago, so I saw them go past occasionally when I lived there. But they are hauled horizontally, not sticking up at an angle.

The length and the apparent height of the 220' blade just looks like too much to move safely. If that's a 45° angle, the blade would be something like 155' tall, plus the trailer height, if I'm doing the math correctly. Out in the middle of nowhere that's possible, but around town like the second picture there are so many obstacles (power lines, overpasses, traffic lights, etc) that route planning would be a nightmare just for the height.

It's also likely that I'm overthinking this and making it far more complicated in my head than it actually is.

 

I could see how lifting them up (or at least having the capability of doing so as needed, could help with some tight corners.

But yeah, where there's tight corners, there's likely to be overhead obstacles.

 

Selfie stick on the end of the blade screwing with the perspective

 

Pilot and Dale Earnhardt Jr. want to get more motorists to give drivers a 'Trucker Salute' (cdllife.com)

 

Good place for this too in case you don't go to the photo thread.

 

"Angry Trucker Drives Over His Boss’ Ferrari GTC4Lusso ...was mainly mad he did not get a 2020 truck … He got a 2019 truck and it was not good enough for him!”.

https://www.carscoops.com/2020/05/a...rari-gtc4lusso-in-chicago/#Echobox=1634995724