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Historic Heavy Hauls With That Wow Factor!

Anything larger than 8.6 feet in width, taller than 13.6 feet in height, longer than 53 feet, or that exceeds 80,000 pounds of gross weight is generally considered a heavy load. Heavy haul transport includes heavy equipment, wide loads, and oversized freight.

“Anything larger” certainly opens the door for some pretty incredible hauls at times! Here’s a few of the most notable heavy hauls in history...

4,800 ton water desalination unit

Heaviest “heavy haul” ever recorded:  4,800 ton water desalination unit. The tractor-trailer truck used for this had 172 axles!

power station transformer weighing 640 tons

The largest item ever “heavy hauled” on the roads of Britain:  power station transformer weighing 640 tons. It was moved at 4 miles per hour which, of course, led to several traffic snarls.

muon g-2 electromagnet storage ring

High-tech transit: The muon g-2 electromagnet storage ring had to be transported in one piece and could not be tilted more than a few degrees without causing irreparable damage to the complex wiring.

Space shuttle Endeavor

Space shuttle moved:  When it was retired, Endeavor was moved 12 miles to the California Science Center. It took up six lanes of traffic and drew a crowd of onlookers.

Big even for Texas:  Over a span of 25 days, the Texas Department of Transportation moved an 850 ton turbine engine. They had to create a custom rig to haul it which spanned the length of a football field.

Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment reactors

Tubular tower: Two Heat Transfer Reactor Experiment (HTRE) reactors were hauled to a visitor centre at the Idaho National Laboratory in 1988, where they remain today.

prototype Saturn V rocket

Getting a boost: A prototype Saturn V rocket was moved from the manufacturing engineering laboratory to a new stand at Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in March 1965.

fuselage of US Airways flight 1549

Hero’s story on display: The fuselage of US Airways flight 1549 that pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger miraculously landed on the Hudson River was towed to the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, NC.

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