SAN ANGELO, TX-- A two million pound transformer being transported by an 18-wheeler slowed traffic on Arden Road Friday morning.
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The haul is being transported to Arden Road and Farm-to-Market Road 2288.
Police say the truck had to stop to widen the tires in order to safely distribute its weight and cross a bridge on the frontage road of Loop 306 near Bryant.
After the truck slowly crosses the bridge it will stop again to put the tires back to normal.
Police advise that drivers avoid the 700 block of West 7th Street for the next hour and avoid the frontage roads for "the next couple of hours."
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The maximum weight permitted on Texas roads is 80,000 pounds. Your two million reference has to be for something else. The roads could not handle a 1000 ton load. Even the flat bed might be bending.
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PermalinkI counted 18 axles plus ? Outrigger axles on that trailer. Two tractor trucks , one pulling one pushing. I wonder how much weight that river bridge was designed for.
That was one heavy transformer, where was it going to?
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