HeavyHaul.com's nuke-transport road train

We read an article about the special road train built by Perkins to haul nuclear waste from San Onofre to Utah, and it just happened that we were driving to Mammoth at the same time it was going to be parked by the side of the road in Bishop. So we drove by and gawked.

Lots more info about the road train is at http://www.heavyhaul.com/, in particular in the PDF newsletter at http://heavyhaul.com/images/roadtrainnwsltr0711.pdf. There is also video of the thing in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCAYMCVJKfQ.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• nuclear
• waste
• heavy
• hauling
• road
• train
• Bishop

[KFGHP]

It's a slightly radioactive package that also happens to be an oversize superload. It's sitting on the side of the road because it's probably waiting for an escort as it changes jurisdictions.

To the narrators, learn something about radiation. You could stand next to this thing for half a day and get about a chest xray (10 dental xrays) of radiation.All risk is relative. You took more risk of dying by getting in the car, and amplified the risk by 100 by making the U Turn.

[JohnCallender]

@KFGHP Yeah, I realize. We were joking about the radiation. And I just wanted to get the 5-hour drive over, or I would have stopped to ogle longer, rather than continuing.

[KFGHP]

It needs an escort because of it's size, not because of the radioactive material.

[smithpak1]

I'm suprised they don't have more of an escort