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> Big rigs are limited by federal regulation to a maximum loaded weight of 80,000 pounds including cargo over 10x heavier than the maximum allowed by law

bowsamic 2y ago
It's split up into 18 separate loads
- npongratz 2y ago
  > It's split up into 18 separate loads TFA suggests it's not split up: > Intel will put a 916,000-pound "super load" on the road in Ohio on Wednesday, for a trip that will cover approximately 150 miles in nine days and snarl traffic for over a week... > Four of these loads, including the one hitting the road now, weigh around 900,000 pounds — that's 400 metric tons, or 76 elephants. > Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box,"... EDIT: Further information in the ODOT advisory detailing the schedule of this one shipment confirms 916k pounds is not split among multiple loads: https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisories/district-9/superload https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisor... > This is the twelfth of nearly two dozen "super loads"... This load... measures approximately 23’ tall, 20’ wide, 280’ long, and weighs 916,000 pounds.
  - swores 2y ago
    Thanks for the good comment, but the link you shared has me confused - it's showing a 404, so I assumed it had changed overnight, but looking at IA's Wayback Machine shows that URL as having been saved on a number of previous dates all of which also show a 404. Presumably it didn't show you a 404 yesterday, as you then wouldn't have shared it.... and I can't work out why it would have been archived multiple times if it's a non-existant page.... Am I being an idiot and missing something? Is there an explanation for why it's 404? https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisories/district-9/superload https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.tran... for https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisories/district-9/superload https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisor... (I don't particularly need to see the page's content, I'm just really puzzled by this 404 situation.)
    - npongratz 2y ago
      Don't know what to say -- the page returns 200 for me, from a couple different networks and different devices and different browsers, yesterday and today. I definitely agree, though, that the archive services show 404.
    - bowsamic 2y ago
      Are you in EU?
      - swores 2y ago
        Ah, technically not but in UK still with GDPR so that could be it! (Though still strange about the archive, unless IA's crawlers are also in Europe?)
- swores 2y ago
  If that were the case the story would just be "18 lorries are going to do a boring trip", and there wouldn't need to be any special plans made for road use at all.
  - bowsamic 2y ago
    Well you can ask them why they thought it was such an interesting story to post. But yes the article discussing the schedule in detail says it is split up across 18 loads
    - allannienhuis 2y ago
      One of the individual loads was at this scale. There are multiple 'super loads'. The article doesn't say that a single 'super load' was split up into 18 parts.
    - swores 2y ago
      The article is quite clear that there are multiple super loads, not multiple normal loads making up one big "super" load. From the 2nd paragraph for example: > "around 20 super loads are being ferried across Ohio's roads by the Ohio Department of Transportation after arriving at a port of the Ohio River via barge. Four of these loads, including the one hitting the road now, weigh around 900,000 pounds — that's 400 metric tons, or 76 elephants" So not all eighteen are quite so huge, but the biggest four are roughly 10x heavier than a typical large lorry(/truck) can handle.

bowsamic 2y ago

It's split up into 18 separate loads

npongratz 2y ago
> It's split up into 18 separate loads TFA suggests it's not split up: > Intel will put a 916,000-pound "super load" on the road in Ohio on Wednesday, for a trip that will cover approximately 150 miles in nine days and snarl traffic for over a week... > Four of these loads, including the one hitting the road now, weigh around 900,000 pounds — that's 400 metric tons, or 76 elephants. > Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box,"... EDIT: Further information in the ODOT advisory detailing the schedule of this one shipment confirms 916k pounds is not split among multiple loads: https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisories/district-9/superload https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisor... > This is the twelfth of nearly two dozen "super loads"... This load... measures approximately 23’ tall, 20’ wide, 280’ long, and weighs 916,000 pounds.
- swores 2y ago
  Thanks for the good comment, but the link you shared has me confused - it's showing a 404, so I assumed it had changed overnight, but looking at IA's Wayback Machine shows that URL as having been saved on a number of previous dates all of which also show a 404. Presumably it didn't show you a 404 yesterday, as you then wouldn't have shared it.... and I can't work out why it would have been archived multiple times if it's a non-existant page.... Am I being an idiot and missing something? Is there an explanation for why it's 404? https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisories/district-9/superload https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.tran... for https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisories/district-9/superload https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisor... (I don't particularly need to see the page's content, I'm just really puzzled by this 404 situation.)
  - npongratz 2y ago
    Don't know what to say -- the page returns 200 for me, from a couple different networks and different devices and different browsers, yesterday and today. I definitely agree, though, that the archive services show 404.
  - bowsamic 2y ago
    Are you in EU?
    - swores 2y ago
      Ah, technically not but in UK still with GDPR so that could be it! (Though still strange about the archive, unless IA's crawlers are also in Europe?)
swores 2y ago
If that were the case the story would just be "18 lorries are going to do a boring trip", and there wouldn't need to be any special plans made for road use at all.
- bowsamic 2y ago
  Well you can ask them why they thought it was such an interesting story to post. But yes the article discussing the schedule in detail says it is split up across 18 loads
  - allannienhuis 2y ago
    One of the individual loads was at this scale. There are multiple 'super loads'. The article doesn't say that a single 'super load' was split up into 18 parts.
  - swores 2y ago
    The article is quite clear that there are multiple super loads, not multiple normal loads making up one big "super" load. From the 2nd paragraph for example: > "around 20 super loads are being ferried across Ohio's roads by the Ohio Department of Transportation after arriving at a port of the Ohio River via barge. Four of these loads, including the one hitting the road now, weigh around 900,000 pounds — that's 400 metric tons, or 76 elephants" So not all eighteen are quite so huge, but the biggest four are roughly 10x heavier than a typical large lorry(/truck) can handle.