Extremely Heavy Mining Truck | Mega Transports | Free Documentary

If a transporter needs to be transported, if 176 wheels
aren't enough to carry its weight and if the load weighs
twice as much as the transporter... Then it must be the
mother of all mega transports! The setting: Canada. The
cargo: an ultra-class dump truck. The heroes: tough men
with delicate fingers and eagle eyes.
In the midst of the no-man's-land of Fort Mckay, in the
province of Alberta, the multi-national company
Mammoet has built up a business for special transports.
For there is treasure in this region: natural gas. To extract
İt, heavy machines are necessary. Heavy Machines like
the 797. The biggest dump truck Cat has ever built - THE
work horse of the North American mining industry. The
record-breaking size of its wheels is matched only by that
of its price: six to eight million dollars. This is the very
truck that Mammoet is supposed to deliver today to its
operation site, an oil sands surface mine.
Although the mine is only 7 kilometres away, the truck
does not manage the short distance on its own power.
With the truck's 300 tons distributed over only four
wheels, the road would not be able to withstand the
weight. Like an elephant standing on four juice-boxes.
The pressure on the four small patches of ground would
immediately burst the asphalt. So, it has to be
transported on a special trailer, which has to be precisely
assembled before the loading can start. And: the
transport has to be finished before rush-hour..
This mega transport requires everything from man and
machine.