Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Still more heavies

 Several more heavy and or oversize loads rolled out of the port area again today. I only caught a few of them.

Trucks from Transport D. Dumais are well known in Halifax, even though they hail from Dolbeau-Mistassini - way up north of Lac-St-Jean, Quebec. That is timber country, so it is no surprise that their Western Stars haul logging machinery, such as this Ponsse harvester, from Finland.

 Another familiar company is JNB Heavy Haul from Brodhagen, ON. I saw their Western Star with set-back front axle twice today, so it must have taken its first load to a staging area to await highway clearance. 

That load was a Sandvik TH545I, a 45 tonne capacity articulated mine dump truck.

Certainly an impressive load, and an unusual set-back axle truck. I saw it again as it came back to Pier 9C for another load - possibly another Sandvik.

JNB has it own pilot cars too, although I did not photo them. (As I have mentioned previously JRB calls the hamlet of Brodhagen home, but operates from the nerarby town of Mitchell. That is near to the home of some of my maternal ancestors.)

And not so heavy, but rugged...

 The European RVs continue to roll in too - I have missed most of them, but did happen to see one today. Its license plate indicates it is from Landshut, Bavaria, in southern Germany, not far from Munich. (They ought to go the the Brodhagen area - they might find some family connections there too.)

The Toyota Safari model 4x4 is likely to come with a guarantee of uncomfortablility, particularly in a high wind with that camper body! The Land Cruiser is no longer available in North America, bur may be making a comeback due to its reputation elsewhere in the world.


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