Mega Super Loads Over Road and Water — Today’s Transportation Challenges and Benefits
(Room 201B)
09 May 17
11:00 AM
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11:30 AM
Tracks:
Material Handling Transportation Logistics I
Due to reduced maintenance and the failing infrastructure of roads, bridges and waterways, navigating the highways and waterways of the United States with oversized loads has become very challenging for suppliers of large equipment. Designing and building equipment that needs to conform to traditional highway transport dimensional limitations has added costs for suppliers of domestically made equipment. These costs are borne by the supplier and customer through additional design times needed, start-up delays due to the field work needed to re-assemble equipment, and potential quality issues. The transporting of super mega loads, though expensive and difficult, has many advantages to delivering equipment in multiple pieces.