What would you have done differently??

[Papa_Buck]

Here’s a list of what’s wrong with what you just posted.

1, that’s 60’ bar on what looks like a 48’ trailer. I can see at least 2’ overhang on the front which means he has a 10’ overhang on the back. With the droop, we’ll say 9’. That puts his overall length at about 82’ (He really needs a longer wheelbase if he hails this regularly). Maryland oversized overhang starts at 6’ and doesn’t require escorts until his overall length is over 85’.

2. Signs are not required unless overwidth (which he is not) or over 10’ overhang. He might be that, but just barely.

3. Escorts are not required until overall length is over 85’. Again I don’t think he is as from the above math.

4. I can see his lights in the picture, but that might change if we were behind him, you said you couldn’t so k.. no lights

5. Your unhappy with the droop. There is no law against that. There is about touching the ground, but you said it came close. That’s legal. If he would have piled then all in the center if would have stiffened them up a little, but they can’t do that with coated bar.

6. As you said back east is a different story, that’s probably why it’s not on a stretch trailer. It’s sometimes hard enough to get a 48’ spread axle around a corner, but a stretch trailer out to 60’ is impossible, that’s why they loaded it on a 48’

7. There is nothing wrong with you refusing the load, I have hauled that droopy stuff all the time, been through ports with it, been inspected with it on, delivered to construction sites for all sorts of state projects with it, no problems.

8. If you were able to take a picture with “that many problems” I wish you would have reported his but to the cops. When you see illegal stuff, call it in so the bad people can be stopped and us legal people don’t get a black eye over their stupid moves. If you thought it should not be legal, why didn’t you call it in?

So, after this in-depth commentary, we decided we might not be able to see his lights, which I can in the picture, we might not see his sign, (which he might not need) but I can in the picture, his load might flex and touch the ground, which you say didn’t happen but came close.