480 wheels needed to carry massive payload

Punch the directions into Google Maps, and it’s estimated that it should take the average driver 37 minutes to get from the south side of the city to the Dow Chemicals plant in Fort Saskatchewan. That’s assuming you’ll keep to the speed limits and that there aren’t any traffic kerfuffles that disrupt your journey.

But a large load, so big that it requires trailers with 480 wheels, will take a lot longer than that to make the trip.

It’s a caustic wash tower, and it has to get from Dacro at 9325 51 Ave. NW to the Fort. What is a caustic wash tower? It removes acidic gases from processed gas streams.

And it’s big. Really big. It’s just under 100 metres in length, so it would take an in-his-prime Usain Bolt just under 10 seconds t

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