Record-Breaking Heavy Transport Gets Underway in Nevada | 2020-06-29 | Engineering News-Record

Record-Breaking Heavy Transport Gets Underway in Nevada | 2020-06-29 | Engineering News-Record: The heaviest load to travel on Nevada highways in the state’s history inched its way out of Las Vegas in the early morning hours of June 29, beginning the first leg of a 345-mile trip that will take it mostly along two-lane roads to the Utah border. The transport assembly, anchored by six heavy-duty Class 8 trucks with four tractors pushing and two pulling, is hauling a 770-ton reactor pressure vessel previously used for cooling at the Southern California Edison’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, . . .