Tagged: Megaloads

'Megaload' Transportation
5:21 pm
Mon October 22, 2012

New 'Megaload' To Travel Idaho Scenic Route

Credit Idaho.gov
U.S. 12, between Lewiston and the Forest Service Boundary in North Central Idaho.

A 260-ton piece of equipment is winding its way through the inland Northwest this week. The Idaho Department of Transportation gave the green light to a shipper moving water purification equipment into Canada.

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Megaloads Move to Pasco
5:31 pm
Tue March 6, 2012

Last Megaloads Depart From Lewiston This Week

Credit Photo credit: Tom Banse / Northwest News Network
Alberta-bound "megaloads" stranded at the Port of Lewiston last winter.

RICHLAND, Wash. – If the weather holds, the last megaloads stranded at the Port of Lewiston will head out Tuesday toward Canada’s oil sands. These oversized truckloads of oil processing machinery have been very controversial.  Now oil companies have switched to shipping smaller loads out of the Port of Pasco.

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