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D11RCD

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Australia
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Diesel Mechanic
I haven't ever seen anything like that!!
The biggest I have ever seen on the road is a Caterpillar 140H!
 

CAT D9H

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Apr 23, 2008
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Location
New Mexico
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Heavy equipment operator
Biggest loader we've ever ran down the road was a 970F that was fun
 

Bwing96

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Aug 22, 2008
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Location
Louisiana
Back in the 70's I drove a Clark 290 scraper with blade on the front over 100 miles on a 2 lane US highway while in the military. That was fun.
 

ClayShifter

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Dec 11, 2008
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U.K.
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Heavy plant operator, Imerys Minerals.
Would love to know any info you have of this picture ?
The scrape carries a Cornish registration although I'm not 100% sure I recognise the location.
 

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diggerman57

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Massachusetts
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heavy equipment operator
The company I work for roads all our non-tracked equipment. Our 980g's, 318m's, 710g's, 140h's are all registered with in-transit plates, and all perfectly legal. I have also seen other companies road 988g's and 769's, but those were really early morning runs.
 

Dug Overburden

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Nov 3, 2008
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california
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trucker
Roading machines

In California the rule is 20k per axle, so I would say a Cat 938 would be the largest legally to drive on the pavement & you need to get an SE plate.

I have talked to many old time scraper operators & it was common in San Diego to drive scrapers job to job. The rule of thumb was do not use your brakes on the job site "save them for the street". They use to take an old tire and squeeze it in the apror door & leave some hanging below the cutting edge to use as a brake in emergency situations. Most of these were Dw20/Dw21's

This photo is from Hanks truck picutes.

Dug
 

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cummins05

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Edmonton
I have roaded a wa 600 wheel loader with a 13 yard bucket in winnipeg manitoba to a couple shoping centres to load out huge piles of snow. now that was fun in city traffic
 

JimInOz

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Apr 15, 2008
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Location
Victoria, Australia
In the early nineties,a small company I worked for in mining,used to drive the D8Hs from job to job .
We were out in the West Australian bush & I often drove the 8H beside the (blacktop) road's edge for a couple of mile to get from one mine to the other....often for only a few hours work.
One of our younger blokes drove the 8H for 7 hours to one job,thru the bush.

I often had to drive a 966E about 30 KLM to get to another minesite.
You learn a lot about the machine when driving over vast distances....plus you also get to learn about native animals,trees,pot-holes,bulldust & boredom..!
 

Bellboy

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KZN South Africa
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Well, in SA, we have a GCM of 57 tons. Not sure if it only applies to trucks, but hey, its still pretty cool.
 

Boyze

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Reading
M.C. Pierce Ltd.

Hi Graham, I have never done any work round your area that I can think of but I did use to work for a company that came from Basingstoke, Micky Pearce. They folded in the 70's, I think he went over to the UAE and was doing some work over there.

I originaly came from Licolnshire but moved around the UK a lot on different projects. I have been working overseas for the last 20 + years and I am now based in Patagonia, Argentina. I am still travelling, it's a hard habit to break!
Russell

Hello LDK.

I noticed that you worked for Micky Pierce. My Dad John Lovejoy and my Uncle Alan Lovejoy worked for M.C. Pierce Earthmoving back in the 1960's & early 1970's out of the main yard at Willoughby Road, Bracknell. My Dad drove the low loader and Alan was the Transport Manager. My first memories of travelling with my Dad was in the low loader and I remember that M.C. Pierce had a big fleet of earthmoving equipment back in the heyday's of motorway construction. Both my Dad and Uncle left before Mick moved his plant out to UAE and started their own haulage company.

I have looked all over the internet for old photos of any of his equipment but sadly they have disappeared along with the memory of this once big player in the earthmoving world, the only photo's I have are of the low loader fresh out the paint shop at the Bracknell yard which is great shame as all the equipment looked good in the yellow with the bull emblem.

Back in the day my Dad moved all the D9's & D8's & boxes with the low loader but I remember squeezing in the cab of Cat motor scrapers out of Levertons at Windsor and bringing them back to Bracknell. All the Cat & Euclid scrapers travelled by road back then and as a youngster it was an amazing sight watching them roar off in a cloud of black smoke.... Great days!!

All the best
Boyze
 

Shimmy1

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North Dakota
In the early nineties,a small company I worked for in mining,used to drive the D8Hs from job to job .
We were out in the West Australian bush & I often drove the 8H beside the (blacktop) road's edge for a couple of mile to get from one mine to the other....often for only a few hours work.
One of our younger blokes drove the 8H for 7 hours to one job,thru the bush.

I often had to drive a 966E about 30 KLM to get to another minesite.
You learn a lot about the machine when driving over vast distances....plus you also get to learn about native animals,trees,pot-holes,bulldust & boredom..!

There's a guy around here that runs his 7H all over the country. Before that, he ran his dad's 7G that had been purchased new. Never saw a lowboy until the first set of rails were worn out. That's how it went until he got the H a few years ago. I'll bet that that 7G has 100,000 miles on it.
 

rossaroni

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Feb 22, 2013
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SE PA
I run the farm loader all over the roads during baling season. Deere 6430 with a loader, the baler, and two diller 20' wagons in tow. Its probably pushing 90' in length. If you want to pass me on a 2 lane, you'd better mean it;). I get flipped off all the time. As long as I keep the orange triangles on it, local cops just wave.
 

elric

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May 24, 2014
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Location
Wisconsin
The sand mine across from me roads 980 H/Ks, WA500s, and 740B's on a daily basis from their wet plant to the dry plant, maybe a mile and a half trip. Asphalt county highway though, in rural Wisconsin.

The Amish buggy's going the other way get a little bit skittish though... :eek:
 
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