Interesting Facts
Logistics Fact of the Week: Sometimes the Road Has to Be Modified for a Single Shipment
Moving oversized or extremely heavy equipment can require much more than finding a suitable trailer. Sometimes the route itself has to be temporarily modified.
Industrial transformers, turbines, reactors and other abnormal loads can weigh hundreds of tonnes and exceed the dimensions conventional road infrastructure was designed to accommodate.
Before transportation begins, specialists may survey bridges, road widths, turning radii, overhead cables, signs and other potential obstacles.
🚧 Preparing the route can involve:
- temporarily removing road signs, barriers or traffic lights;
- raising or temporarily disconnecting overhead cables;
- assessing and, where required, strengthening structures;
- temporarily closing sections of road;
- changing traffic arrangements;
- organising specialist escorts.
In the UK, these movements are known as Abnormal Indivisible Loads (AIL). Official route assessments can include temporary modifications to infrastructure to allow exceptionally large cargo to pass.
Nottinghamshire County Council, for example, reports abnormal loads weighing up to 300 tonnes moving through the county, including power-station transformers and major industrial castings.
This is why oversized transport is closer to an engineering and logistics project than an ordinary delivery. Every bridge, turn and obstacle can become part of the planning process.
At LOADSTAR UNITY LTD, we organise oversized and heavy transport, developing routes around the specific requirements of each project.
Sometimes logistics finds a road. Sometimes the road has to be prepared for logistics.
Industrial transformers, turbines, reactors and other abnormal loads can weigh hundreds of tonnes and exceed the dimensions conventional road infrastructure was designed to accommodate.
Before transportation begins, specialists may survey bridges, road widths, turning radii, overhead cables, signs and other potential obstacles.
🚧 Preparing the route can involve:
- temporarily removing road signs, barriers or traffic lights;
- raising or temporarily disconnecting overhead cables;
- assessing and, where required, strengthening structures;
- temporarily closing sections of road;
- changing traffic arrangements;
- organising specialist escorts.
In the UK, these movements are known as Abnormal Indivisible Loads (AIL). Official route assessments can include temporary modifications to infrastructure to allow exceptionally large cargo to pass.
Nottinghamshire County Council, for example, reports abnormal loads weighing up to 300 tonnes moving through the county, including power-station transformers and major industrial castings.
This is why oversized transport is closer to an engineering and logistics project than an ordinary delivery. Every bridge, turn and obstacle can become part of the planning process.
At LOADSTAR UNITY LTD, we organise oversized and heavy transport, developing routes around the specific requirements of each project.
Sometimes logistics finds a road. Sometimes the road has to be prepared for logistics.
