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[Hitachi350Man]

Anybody know what's the biggest loader you can drive on the road physically or legally. Here in BC I've seen and driven myself 966s on the road. What are your guys experiences.

 

[thejdman04]

have no clue in bc around here in N il depending on the city or county most dont care if it isnt over 102 or so inches wide and either has an smv or a flashing yellow light and its daytime hours

 

[Hitachi350Man]

102 inches is only 8 and half feet which is like a 938.

 

[pwrstroke6john]

Around here they dont care. The county drives there WA 380 around all the time, and I have seen 970s driving down the road. The craziest thing that I ever seen was cat 627 scraper water wagon driving down the main 4 lane road into town with no escorts.

 

[Hitachi350Man]

970 is that a Cat. I didn't know they used make a 970.
I guess in really small towns they don't lose sleep over heavy equipment on public roads.

 

[komatsukid]

we have to obtain permits to road our 980, thats the largest ive ever seen.

 

[d4c24a]

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here in the uk ,some people just pop off down the high street to the next job
might get in a spot of bother if it was done now

 

[MKTEF]

Norway is:
Not over 20 000lbs pr axle/one driveaxle 23000(10/11,5t), 9feet wide, 36 feet long.

Permit and escort for higher axle loads, and more than 9feet wide.

Biggest here is a Volvo L120, Moxy MT31,Volvo A25, 966 is on the edge.(empty, or nearly)
The L120 is also on the edge, thats way Volvo made the L110.

But i know somebody roading a A35 fully loaded, and 980's, but u maight get in big trouble.
Our Leopard 2 Main Battle Tank, 110 000 lbs, is driven on roads on exercises...(permit and yellow beacon)

 

[mikef87]

I drive my 980C down the road. We plowed for the town one year with it. As long as it's registered I can't see them busting your chops.

 

[tdozer]

Our company roads equipment on a regular basis.We road 980's, 627's and 633's to almost every job. Even if it is way too far. It seems like the company policy is that lowboy trailers are only for tracked machines or broken scrapers and loaders. If we can drive the machine to the next job in an 8 hour day, down the road it goes. I'm sure im not the only one here that thinks its crazy.
Oh, the 633's are scary when you get on a two lane, back road or into a small town. and they go fast enough to scare you too.

 

[mikef87]

Yeah believe me I'd rather move all the machines on the lowbed so I don't put needless wear and tear on the tranny and final drives. Needless to say I've done some pretty crazy things to get things done.

 

[Tegian]

Now they have changed the machine but I used to have a Volvo 120E clearing the snow outside my house. That is about the biggest you can legally use on public roads here in Sweden.

 

[Squizzy246B]

here in the uk ,some people just pop off down the high street to the next job
might get in a spot of bother if it was done now

Lol, reminds me of an episode of Top Gear when Hammond drove a 24 tonne Case Quad Track Tractor into a village to buy lunch....a Ploughman's lunch of course.

 

[bobcat ron]

I have a neighbour who runs his old 1980's Cat 980 over the road between dump sites, quite the sound when he gears down going up the hill!

 

[joedirt]

We get away with murder around here. It is not uncommon to see 988b's going down the road. I know I've run 631e's all over town followed by a couple of 769 rock trucks. A few years back one of the pits in town had an old old 992 loader. On some early Sunday mornings you would see that thing trucking down the road to the next pit?? For what it's worth though, I did get pulled over last year in a JD backhoe for having my back lights on:beatsme. Just depends on who you get..

 

[ror76a]

Leagaly or what you can get away with?

One guy told me he got an overweight ticket for roading a Volvo 120. :beatsme
We have gotten away with some good ones around here. Like the time my grandpa coulden't get the farmall 400 started, so they pulled it to the shop (tractor and disc) behind the 120 grader, and the disk was raised just enough so that it still drug a little and made some sparks, not to mention the scraches in the asphalt.:Banghead
Or taking the D6s down the rail road right of way to get to the golf course (when we were building it, not to use instead of a cart )
And then there was the time that I roaded the 235 down about a mile of state higway to get to our shale pit, on easter weekend nonetheless. That would have been a tough one to explain to the cops. :bash

 

[mikef87]

One guy told me he got an overweight ticket for roading a Volvo 120. :beatsme
We have gotten away with some good ones around here. Like the time my grandpa coulden't get the farmall 400 started, so they pulled it to the shop (tractor and disc) behind the 120 grader, and the disk was raised just enough so that it still drug a little and made some sparks, not to mention the scraches in the asphalt.:Banghead
Or taking the D6s down the rail road right of way to get to the golf course (when we were building it, not to use instead of a cart )
And then there was the time that I roaded the 235 down about a mile of state higway to get to our shale pit, on easter weekend nonetheless. That would have been a tough one to explain to the cops. :bash

Did he go over a low rated bridge? Because if you move it on a lowbed your not overweight. I had to walk my 345 about a mile to get it into a tight neighborhood to do a deep sewer repair. It was hairy, did it early sunday morning with 2 cop details so when the neighbors started to hallar the cops got em to shut up.

 

[928G Boy]

i don't know how it is in other places... but out here roading a loader is no big deal at all. some loaders basically live on the road and never touch a lowbed... Loaders work so much on snow removal in the winter which means LOTS of driving all around the city...

The best way to get tickets in a loader is to:

A.) Drive with your back-up lights on
B.) Drive in a lane other than the curb lane on a multi-laned highway.

The company I work for has been around since 1923, I think at one point of their history in the 50s or 60s they drove 966s so far on road from city to city that the operators stayed in hotels along the way... At least thats what the old guys say.

 

[mikef87]

i don't know how it is in other places... but out here roading a loader is no big deal at all. some loaders basically live on the road and never touch a lowbed... Loaders work so much on snow removal in the winter which means LOTS of driving all around the city...

The best way to get tickets in a loader is to:

A.) Drive with your back-up lights on
B.) Drive in a lane other than the curb lane on a multi-laned highway.

The company I work for has been around since 1923, I think at one point of their history in the 50s or 60s they drove 966s so far on road from city to city that the operators stayed in hotels along the way... At least thats what the old guys say.

WOW! I drove mine 30 miles because up here we can't run lowbeds over the road when there is snow pack. I thought that was rough, because it was when I was starting out and had junk boxes.

 

[bonanno23]

as long as its registered, I don't think it matters. I would say an escort vehicle would be smart. we moved our 980GII 966H and 966F all in a row for almost 30 miles a few weeks back. had one of our pick-ups follow with the strobes on. no issues