A truck, and truck is an understatement, has left Norfolk VA, enroute to Martinsville VA. A big deal? Yep, here’s a link to the picture1. These trucks are delivering a forging press to the RTI Manufacturing Company facilities outside Martinsville. Three trips will be required to deliver the whole press.
According to this article from the Henry County Economic Development Commission:
The tractor-trailers are 225 feet long and 16 feet, 5 inches wide, according to Heath and VDOT. They are about the size of three normal tractor-trailers and have a combined gross weight of up to 551,000 pounds, they said.
Man, that’s 2/3 football field length. It’s also very good news for the Martinsville community, a beautiful area which has taken its share of economic lumps, most of which predate the recent general economic upheaval. RTI Manufacturing will employ around 150 at the Martinsville facility. This is great news for a part of Virginia that I really love.
Still, I’m glad I’m not stuck in traffic behind that truck.
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That’s a big friggin’ load!
Woe to the poor saps stuck behind that thing. Like Sammy Hagar, I bet that rig cant’t drive 55, but not in the same sense as Sammy’s plight.