50 Wheeler...... Semi Truck with Pics towing the BIGGEST truck in NC

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I saw this yesterday on 77N in Charlotte between exit 6 and exit 7

anyone ever seen such a rig??

the first pic shows how weighted down it is.

Oh Yea, check out that monster its towing
Its got 4 spare tires for the rig.

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mbalbritton said:
Would it not make more sense to just drive the damn thing down the road with a police escort or Warning team escort like when they move a house.
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Drive THAT dump truck down the road? That would probably destroy the entire highway, that thing has to weigh ALOT.

Thats just a toddler dump truck though...

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Thats the Daddy dump truck. Imagine how they haul that....:lol:
 
That's actually a fairly small trailer setup. Go further west to where the oil rigs are and look at some of those trailers. Makes that one look like a standard 18 wheeler.
 
maulcruiser said:
That's actually a fairly small trailer setup. Go further west to where the oil rigs are and look at some of those trailers. Makes that one look like a standard 18 wheeler.
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True, the road train that delivered the water tank for our FD's water point was a bit longer than that.

And thats nothing out of the norm to see around a quarry.
 
I live in Greensboro near the new FedEx hub, and when they were building the hub, there were 8-10 of those things working on it (the dump truck that is). I saw one on the back of an 18-wheeler like that, but they had to take the tires off of it to make it fit ont he trailer. Guess they didn't have a trailer like the one did in this picture.
 
wouldn't it make more sense to dismantle it and rebuild it?
sorta like the way the quarry trucks are built on site because they are so huge?

maybe it wasn't going far.
 
mbalbritton said:
Would it not make more sense to just drive the damn thing down the road with a police escort or Warning team escort like when they move a house.
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That truck achieves a max speed of around 20 mph and consumer GALLONS PER MILE of diesel fuel....no its cheaper to buy the 1750 over weight interstate permit...not to mention tire wear...
 
It appears to be a mining truck to me.... Not many guys in the heavy earth moving business would even consider using a truck that large...

The company I worked for had tons of LARGE cats but nothing that big... it's not very economical for moving dirt.. too long to make a cycle w/ it...

I am supprised they're transporting it like that though... I know we had to pretty much pull apart the large excavations, etc...
 
Guys thats a 775d. A 65 ton off road earth moving truck (aka Haul truck). I am a mechanic in hendersonville For vulcan materials and we used that same style truck up till last year when we swapped all three of ours in for 775f which are the new style 70 ton trucks. That truck in normal opperation hauling 25-30 loads at a mile per load will burn 125-150 gallons of fuel per day. But as for a top speed, I myself have had a old 775d at 45 mph unloaded. I myself have never seen one moved whole like that. It must have been making a short trip. When we shipped ours out we took the beds off, took all six tires off (once on the trailor and frame supported), and all the cat walks off. It was a site to behold our way, I can only imagine seeing it whole lol. Just to give you a refrence idea those tires are 6.5 foot tall and 2 foot wide. lol heck of a truck. Hope i could help.
 
i was on my way to sumter sc and was somewhere just north of columbia and saw the EXACT same rig.....thats not exactly short distance is it?? also saw 8 humvee's bein hauled and like 3 dueces......i just wanted them to fall off so i could take it wheelin lol
 
No thats not short at all. lol. They must have some awesome insurance lol. the top of the cab shield on our trucks is about 15 feet to the ground. So that kinda raises some clearances ?
 
that thing was big,,,as it went further up 77N it was escourted by the Highway Patrol and took up both lanes, the semi carrying it drove about 50 mph which ment a lot of backed up traffic.
 
This just a little over half the truck, the rear had a "pusher" truck helping . I-10 on the Cali line

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Oh those are Quad duals on the front of the "trailer"

Another big one same place

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