Posted: 4/22/2026 7:00:22 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Seabee_Mech][Edited]
...they pull me back in  It's been just over a year since I traded my truck for a desk, I recently moved from Dispatch to taking over as the Maintenance Manager for our division after the last guy made a mess of it and quit with no notice. We needed someone to fill in for a driver on vacation and we were short handed so I broke out the '97 W900 and my old friend the Faymonville Highway Max to move a generator at another new Data Center. The Generator was 110k which put me right about 200k GVW, a little more than that truck is used to running but she did well. The 3406E Cat sounds sweet under load through the straight pipes and the Jakes were rattling windows as I came down the short 6% grade to the off load site. It was a nice break from the office work and the new guys found out I can do much more than drive a desk   |
USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
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Originally Posted By jaqufrost: That's a good sized generator. I bet it's spendy to keep fueled. |
USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
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Originally Posted By Phillbilly: Whatcher' handle? Nobody talks on the CB anymore, if I was running pilot cars we'd just use our names |
USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
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Originally Posted By sigman68: 200K down the road seems crazy to me. How hard is it to turn a trailer with all those wheels setup like that? This job was just an onsite move from a lay down yard to the offload site so the trailer is not stretched out, the trailer has sliding beams between axles 3-4 and 6-7 to lengthen the trailer out to increase the "Bridge Length" between axle groups when traveling on public roads. This is the trailer stretched out to 12' between axles groups:  |
USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
| Silly question and I understand pictures don’t do justice but the size of whatever that is on that trailer makes extending the trailer that long seem counter productive. You see huge pieces of equipment on smaller trailers all the time. Just curious the reason for extending the trailer/axles for that load? (Asking purely for curiosity and education value). |
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Originally Posted By greg9719: Silly question and I understand pictures don't do justice but the size of whatever that is on that trailer makes extending the trailer that long seem counter productive. You see huge pieces of equipment on smaller trailers all the time. Just curious the reason for extending the trailer/axles for that load? (Asking purely for curiosity and education value) This shows the why:  ETA: It may not look very big but that MLC300 crane house and car body weighs almost 150,000 lbs |
USN Retired: APR 1988 - MAY 2008
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch
"My center is giving way, my right is falling back, situation excellent, I attack." —Ferdinand Foch