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this truck is essentially transporting half a city!
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The newest Xbox ?
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Just the power supply
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Damn new graphics cards needing more and more power
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Your Mom’s dildo.
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oh common folks this is a classic
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>oh common folks this is a classic Verily, but only amongst the rabble.
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A+ comment
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I suppose I can come down and perspire amongst the peasants for a bit
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Yeah but coming from Flaccid-Aggressive we know it’s dad and the rule is: we don’t laugh at dad’s jokes we groan.
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YOUR mom’s dildo.
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Naw. This is the battery!
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How dare you offend people somehow by mentioning batteries.
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Introducing: XBOX OXBO Series X/S-B Or the no disc version: XBOX OXBO Series SBX
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Pleased to see that “Xbox big” jokes are still around after 20 years
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The Xbox X~~L~~
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Ironically the newest Xbox coming out is a handheld system.
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nah that’s ur moms new Serta being delivered
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My first thought also
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I am so proud this is the first comment that shows up for me. Achievement unlocked. Updoot!
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Did a quick search seems this is arguably the SMALLER shit they haul. https://www.oxboinc.com Still not enough for my emotional baggage tho.
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On a scale of “we should probably build a fab shop on site” to “who needs roads?” this is waaay up there. I’m legit curious as to how this company thinks. Do they exist just to fulfill those edge cases, where it’s actually cheaper to prefab something and haul it wherever it has to go than the prerequisite setup and all that to build things at that scale on site. *math equations lady gif*
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Looks like they’ve been around for over 30 years, so I guess they got enough clients to keep ’em going. Looking through their gallery is pretty impressive. I can understand some of the things they haul, like massive boats. Or why some things may need certain environments for their construction, like the transformers. But they have plenty of other things that definitely seem like they could’ve shipped in parts and been reassembled on site for far cheaper than what I assume this company would charge.
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>But they have plenty of other things that definitely seem like they could’ve shipped in parts and been reassembled on site for far cheaper than what I assume this company would charge. I thought the same but realised that you only need a single piece to not fit properly on a common truck or need multiple trucks that you might just say fuck it, send the whole thing and forget about the logistics.
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Legally speaking, you’d be in A LOT of trouble shipping something that should be sent as multiple truckloads. It would require you basically run the haul without any over-dimensional permits (prob have your license revoked, Freight carrier license taken or put on probation, etc.) Or, yeah I guess you could *lie* get the permits then ship whatever it was with inaccurate permits, but either way, you’re risking criminal negligence and lying to the state(s) govt documents. A large boom crane, for example, would have the body shipped (overdimenaional) then the counter-weights need to be removed and shipped on separate trucks, than the boom is taken off and breaks off into sections which all get arranged on as many trucks as needed to ship them as legal loads. If you actually go to Manitowoc, CAT websites, you can find the product spec sheets for the larger equipment, and it will actually show you the schematics of how it is broken down for shipping logistics purposes, dims needed to supply to the state for permits. Here’s an example with the link to the schematics. It’s like a real life Tetris to see how you can make break to down to fit on as few trailers as possible: https://www.manitowoc.com/manitowoc/lattice-boom-crawler-cranes/mlc165-1
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I think there’s quite a few industries that use very large prefab parts a lot, like wind farms. Looking into this now, I’m fascinated to learn that mega carriers are like entry-level trucking jobs. I’m not finding an easy answer as to what they carry most often though.
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10 years as a trucker here. I do mega-hauls like the ones in the picture here. Some of the largest jobs, and most common jobs, are trips where we haul your mother around.
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username checks all the way out
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Oh yeah when they haul those huge wind turbine blades it’s hilarious too
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A couple years ago in Indiana, I stopped for gas at a truck stop and one of those wind turbine blade haulers was trying to maneuver his entire fucking rig into the diesel pumps. I was like, dude! Just drop your trailer, fill up, and hook back up! Nope. He had at least ten guys out there trying to marshal his 150 foot ass into the fuel bay. I filled up, took a dump, and grabbed a soda…and the Windmill Wonder was still going back and forth as I left.
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You can also special order a fuel truck to deliver fuel to vehicles that can’t get to a fuel station. A logistics company should be able to arrange that.
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My company occasionally fabricates and transports equipment like this from Perth (WA) to Newman or Port Headland – thousands of kilometres. Crushers, reclaimers, etc. Generally speaking most large equipment is built in large components and transported overland as fabricating the parts can require specialised equipment that you can’t just take to site.
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To answer your question- yes, this type of hauling company exists exclusively on these type of industries and edge cases. Something as large as what was posted could easily be five or six figures in shipping charges, depending on how far it moved, or god forbid how many states it moved through (LOTS of permitting and surveying in that case). I worked in logistics for well over a decade. These type of moves were SUPER fascinating from both the planning and execution portions. To your point, it was always insightful to hear from the clients *Why* it needed shipped they way it was versus assembly on site, because you can’t even get over-dimensional hauling permits if something can reasonably be broken down into smaller/lighter components. Typically, there were a few industries where this was most common— namely the Energy / Utilities sector, things like generators for substation. Also mining equipment comes to mind (dump trucks the size of houses— like the ones in Avatar). The blades for wind turbines, despite looking pretty crazy, are fairly straight forward. But they require something referred to as ‘blade trailers’ and the trailer Holding the blade is specifically designed to transport those, it can’t haul anything else. The biggest hurdle for generators and substations is actually the weight, which is why you see a ludicrous amount of axles in the video that is posted. It more of an issue for the road, not the trailer itself. Without that many wheels to distribute the weight, the roads would literally break. We had a generator haul that weighted 340,000lbs that was barged in from (I think) Ukraine or somewhere in that region. Once it was unloaded from the barge in the Great Lakes, We had to ‘rent’ land from a farmer and essentially laid down wood to cut across his land because there was no way to make the routing work based on the road dimensions, weight limitations and angles that existed. Yes – it’s as cool as it sounds, and the planning alone can take months. Need to account for utility lines, weather, road materials, city/county/state ordinances, surveyors, etc. hahah sorry for needing out but damn this stuff is just so cool to see!
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They are right near me, I remember them being in the news a few years ago because they moved a historical house from one location to another here in Portland, OR
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THOSE ARE SO COOL OMG. I’m almost 40 and still love it when a team literally picks up a building and moves it, and we’ve been doing it for centuries now.
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I dont know a ton about this thing precisely but ive done a lot work in heavy construction. A lot of things are not practical to construct on-site at all, its not even that they are just cheaper to prefab. From something relatively simple like a prestressed beams all the way to large precision components for a natural gas plant – lot of this stuff could only be built in an offsite factory unless you want to first build the huge machine needed to build the huge machine you’re trying to build. Hope that makes sense.
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why do you assume it’s always cheaper and easier to develop the fab site and hire the skilled labor to put together your stuff instead of ordering it from some place that’s probably been doing it for 50 years?
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usually things of this size that need to be shipped are precision manufactured or power gen/distro. Oxbo does farming equipment according to google.
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I’m just surprised because based on the number of axles it’s somewhat heavy. Guess I live in a place with too many hills because I’m surprised it’s a single tractor.
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If this is the same load I saw parked at a weigh station recently, there is a second tractor as a pusher. Just not obvious in the video.
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Depending on the needs for the haul additional tractors can be added to the setup for more power or braking
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Smaller than ops mom?
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No, I doubt they’re transporting planets.
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That’s her Uber drive
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So everything?
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So they can only transport things on perfectly straight roads right? Lmao
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Very different to oxboink.com
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Hehe. Boink.
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Things need to be transported places. The biggest I saw in person was a blade for a wind turbine. Id hate to be the person that has the pressure to drive that.
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You should see the tower pieces and the nacelle getting hauled.
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I love how their frontpage puts this video and everything else I’ve seen to shame. Thats good advertising, showing them moving whole ass buildings and windmills and shit.
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