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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:17:15 PM EDT
What's the weirdest thing you've seen being transported on the interstate? I've seen aircraft on flatbeds, nuclear waste or something in huge concrete cylinders. But today I saw this thing on a flatbed going south on I-75 going through Knoxville,TN I guess it was going to a museum.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:19:18 PM EDT
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My PSA order finally came in, woot!
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:23:24 PM EDT
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My PSA order finally came in, woot! They were out of blem nukes when I ordered 
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:24:13 PM EDT
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I just got an email from UPS saying that there was a misrouting at the sorting center.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:24:37 PM EDT
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Could be headed to a gun show.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:24:54 PM EDT
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Big spread axle dump wagon with cattle and horse carcasses peeking out.
I was like WTF????????? lol |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:25:33 PM EDT
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Those gigantic blades heading towards the wind farms up in North Central KS. Other various stuff.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:26:15 PM EDT
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Is that Russian?
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:27:00 PM EDT
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Could be headed to a gun show. Hmmm, there is a gunshow here this weekend. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:27:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:27:12 PM EDT
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Big spread axle dump wagon with cattle and horse carcasses peeking out. I was like WTF????????? lol I see that everyday. There's a 30k head feedlot 4 miles from my house. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:29:45 PM EDT
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My PSA order finally came in, woot! haha |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:30:24 PM EDT
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I've seen a lot of plastic wrapped boats being transported on I-81 over the years.
Sail boats, power boats. Some of them were quite large. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:32:05 PM EDT
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Not particularly strange, but kind of funny...
I saw a tractor trailer with "WIDE LOAD" signs on it in the breakdown lane of the Interstate today. It was hauling a yacht, which looked to be in the million dollar class. (I don't know shit about boats, but I saw one at Bass Pro for $300,000 that was less than half the size of this whopper). Not sure what the problem was that they were stopped by the side of the road, but I'm sure the owner of that boat probably wasn't too happy about it. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:33:07 PM EDT
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I’m not shitting you I saw a giraffe being towed in a fiberglass enclosed trailer down the 10 freeway near desert center in California. Crazy shit!
Kinda like this. 
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:33:59 PM EDT
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I did not see anything strange but just then I looked in the mirror...................
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:54:13 PM EDT
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Those gigantic blades heading towards the wind farms up in North Central KS. Other various stuff. I've seen those in NM. They must be 100 feet long! Wierd as in unusual? I've seen spy satellites being moved on city streets but not on the Interstate. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:58:22 PM EDT
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not directed at anyone, just humorous and apropos to the thread
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:59:12 PM EDT
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I've seen those in NM. They must be 100 feet long! Wierd as in unusual? I've seen spy satellites being moved on city streets but not on the Interstate. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Those gigantic blades heading towards the wind farms up in North Central KS. Other various stuff. I've seen those in NM. They must be 100 feet long! Wierd as in unusual? I've seen spy satellites being moved on city streets but not on the Interstate. Routine occurrence in my town. I doubt you saw spy satellites, since even their shape is classified.  I've seen U23X go by rail and truck.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 7:59:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:00:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:02:09 PM EDT
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Saw a giant fiberglass clown head sticking out of a tarp on a flatbed truck. I'm guessing it was some sort of carnival ride, still, creepy as hell.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:05:19 PM EDT
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Saw one of the A-11s or SR-71s going to its museum home on I-15 back in 1992. Also saw Thomas the Tank Engine riding on a low boy on I-76 in Ohio about 8 years ago. And I saw the Stargate being hauled to DC for filming the episode where it had been revealed and set up in some building in Washington (had to ask the driver about it).
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:05:34 PM EDT
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Soviet Mi-24 Hind gunship on a flatbed trailer in Milwaukee WI a few years ago. Stub wings were removed along with the main rotors.Still had the big red star on the fusalage!
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:08:21 PM EDT
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Wouldn't it be nice to have "that" option....
I got 1 shot, don't make me push the button. 
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:10:27 PM EDT
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F35 fuselage heading east on 10 just inside the AZ/NM border.
Not long after that an old 727 fuselage going the same way. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:10:32 PM EDT
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Dunno what it was in the container but I did a wheel-seal/RR brake job on a cargo container that was under armed escort. .GOV plates on the tractor and the four black Tahoes that were traveling with it. They blocked of one lane of I-90 and the Tahoe directly behind the trailer had it's window rolled down and the guy in the passenger seat was giving me the stinkeye
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:13:31 PM EDT
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Unmarked frieght truck with suspicious black SUVs in front and behind it.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:15:10 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:18:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryDAAAAMMMMNNNN!!!!!! Smoking is 'spensive
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:21:25 PM EDT
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A bit ago, I saw an Apollo capsule on a flatbed going N. on I-10 in Tucson. No way I could tell if it were real, a simulator, or a remake, but it was cool to see.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:21:33 PM EDT
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Czechoslovakian MiG-21 going east between Knoxville & Nashville on I-40. Later the same day, I saw a DUKW going the opposite direction.
One morning I saw a M4 Composite Hull Sherman going west between Nashville and Chattanooga on I-24 before the Patton Museum was moved. When the Patton Museum was being moved, I photographed a M4 Sherman, a M4A1 Sherman, and a M74 TRV as they passed through Nashville in rush-hour traffic. My wife, who was in the car behind me wondered W-T-F her husband was doing holding his cell-phone out of the car until she saw the tanks My friend lucked out and saw the Hetzer, AMX-13 and others being transported South.
Every now and then I'll see helicopter and aircraft fuselages being transported - the usual Huey's, SH-3's or some older aircraft. James |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:22:10 PM EDT
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Unmarked frieght truck with suspicious black SUVs in front and behind it. Seen those too. Gubmint plates but no wording on the vehicles. Probably the NSA listening to Sirius XM for free.
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:23:29 PM EDT
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Those gigantic blades heading towards the wind farms up in North Central KS. Other various stuff. I saw some of those in Kansas once. The first one I saw, I could tell a ways away that it was a strange load. Just after it got close enough for me to identify it as a windmill blade, a deer jumped out in front of the truck and got vaporized. I was laughing so damn hard I could barely drive. This eco, earth friendly product is moving down the highway and wildlife gets just disintegrated. |
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Posted: 4/28/2014 8:24:03 PM EDT
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I saw a A-12 Blackbird on it's way to the Boeing museum.
I also saw the Spruce Goose on it's way to the Evergreen Museum. Both on I-5. |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 12:29:08 AM EDT
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not seen in person. but every one of these goes through this small french village .
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Posted: 4/29/2014 12:41:53 AM EDT
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Saw what I'm guessing was a tsmt "ghost fleet" shipment. It was in the middle of nowhere so the escort vehicles stood out as they and the truck were the only other things in the road.
From what I understand all of Arfcom would have trouble taking one of those down let alone the rumors of the trailers defenses measures.. IIRC they also have the ability to declare an area some kind of security zone and call in just about anything they want to lock it down and defend to shipment. |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 12:44:49 AM EDT
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Nuclear weapons. Multiple times.
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Posted: 4/29/2014 1:27:31 AM EDT
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1) In Atlanta I saw some sort of older fighter jet being transported. The fuselage was on one flatbed and the wings were on another.
2) A Geo Metro with the rear bumper removed, some sort of trailer hitch welded on, towing a motorcycle. 3) An OLD Audi car towing one of those dodge Sprinter vans. I don't know how that was even working. Didn't look safe by any means. |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 1:38:31 AM EDT
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I've seen a lot of plastic wrapped boats being transported on I-81 over the years. Sail boats, power boats. Some of them were quite large. I saw a wrapped F-4 on a barge going through the Intracoastal Waterway about forty years ago. |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 1:51:39 AM EDT
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Working on the docks I have seen just about everything loaded / unloaded from ships and put on trailers.
I worked at CUT in Long Beach for a few years and they are the only super heavy dock on the west coast. (The dock is rated to hold big stuff) I got to be a part of and even in charge of rigging some pretty large lifts. There are no heavy lift cranes on that dock so large barge cranes were used to move the big stuff.. They are better than land based cranes anyway. The largest lift that I was the rigger for was a 590 ton steam turbine headed to AZ IIRC.. They brought in the trailer and a jacking system about 3 weeks before the turbine arrived.. They built up the trailer and a set of jacks that straddle the trailer at 4 points to directly place the load.. We were in charge of the lift from ship to shore and then they used the straddle jack to place the load on the trailer.. That one was pretty easy as it was a fairly small heavy piece. Not a big sail thank god.. I can't find the pics but this is what the trailer looked like.. 
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Posted: 4/29/2014 1:55:02 AM EDT
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Seems legit. Quote HistoryI saw a guy with a ATV on the roof of a minivan at a gas station, he was filling it up with gas (the ATV) 
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Posted: 4/29/2014 1:58:40 AM EDT
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Working on the docks I have seen just about everything loaded / unloaded from ships and put on trailers. I worked at CUT in Long Beach for a few years and they are the only super heavy dock on the west coast. (The dock is rated to hold big stuff) I got to be a part of and even in charge of rigging some pretty large lifts. There are no heavy lift cranes on that dock so large barge cranes were used to move the big stuff.. They are better than land based cranes anyway. The largest lift that I was the rigger for was a 590 ton steam turbine headed to AZ IIRC.. They brought in the trailer and a jacking system about 3 weeks before the turbine arrived.. They built up the trailer and a set of jacks that straddle the trailer at 4 points to directly place the load.. We were in charge of the lift from ship to shore and then they used the straddle jack to place the load on the trailer.. That one was pretty easy as it was a fairly small heavy piece. Not a big sail thank god.. I can't find the pics but this is what the trailer looked like.. http://www.guymturner.com/images/dual.lane_main1.jpg They moved one of those through my area a few years ago. They had to put temporary reinforcement on several bridges and each night they could only drive ~5 miles until they needed to stop and overday at the next prepared location. It took them like two weeks to get from the minor port at the South end of my county and up to the PA line on their way to Peach Bottom. Kharn |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 1:59:23 AM EDT
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Another thing that I never saw in person, but saw video/pictures of it on the local news was a a MASSIVE turbine for a local powerplant. It took up 2 complete lanes, was god knows how long and the maximum speed was about 5mph. They only moved it at night to avoid traffic issues.
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Posted: 4/29/2014 2:00:52 AM EDT
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M1 Battle tank on flat bed looks cool and weird at the same time.
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Posted: 4/29/2014 2:03:49 AM EDT
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Tim Burton Batmobile on trailer being towed down I75.
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Posted: 4/29/2014 2:12:30 AM EDT
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They moved one of those through my area a few years ago. They had to put temporary reinforcement on several bridges and each night they could only drive ~5 miles until they needed to stop and overday at the next prepared location. It took them like two weeks to get from the minor port at the South end of my county and up to the PA line on their way to Peach Bottom. Kharn Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted:...snip... They moved one of those through my area a few years ago. They had to put temporary reinforcement on several bridges and each night they could only drive ~5 miles until they needed to stop and overday at the next prepared location. It took them like two weeks to get from the minor port at the South end of my county and up to the PA line on their way to Peach Bottom. Kharn The one I rigged didn't make it the first mile before biting back. The automatic leveling jacks on the trailer took a shit as it was getting on the freeway (at night of course) and it got stuck on the on ramp. A mechanic from the heavy trucking company crawled under the thing to fix / replace a blown jack and somehow the trailer rolled 2-3 feet crushing his legs. I had spent the last 3 weeks around the guy as they built the trailer on our dock.. We invited them into our break room, had lunch with him everyday.. He was a really cool guy. He didn't lose his legs but they were fukt up.. This was 5-10 years ago now and he is walking and doing ok now.. He got a nice check too.. In the end they found that all the required wheel chalks had been used on the pull truck, trailer and push truck but the load was on an incline and just bulldozed them right into the ground. Scary stuff. |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 2:57:00 AM EDT
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Big spread axle dump wagon with cattle and horse carcasses peeking out. I was like WTF????????? lol Hotdog factory delivery....... |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 3:00:32 AM EDT
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Tank truck full of chicken shit with its rear spigot open going north on I-77 above Salisbury NC.
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Posted: 4/29/2014 3:03:00 AM EDT
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Flatbed full of bees. With a mesh tarp over top. My windshield was getting pelted with hundreds of them. Obviously the tarp wasnt pulled down well enough.
How many bees can you fit on an 18-wheeler? Must've been millions. |
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Posted: 4/29/2014 3:03:29 AM EDT
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I saw a "wienermobile" being transported on a flat bed being pulled by a Ford dually.
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