Some information that was on the scanned page about this truck:
Load Capacity: 800 ton cargo
Speed: The 17-mile run takes 12 hours at 3 mph
The Hendrickson Hulk drinks up 20 gallons of diesel an hour in the low gears. Since the engine is not governed down, the onus is on the person at the wheel. Pity them; a 12-hour stint at sleep-inducting speeds is tough work, even on a Bostrom seat.
The return trip in not much easier - 6 mph is the top speed, even unladen, because the trailer is an engineering wonder that's not to be trifled with. The big one would make a millipede envious; no less that 384 hydraulically-sprung wheels paired in bogies and arrayed eight pairs across and 24 rows long, allow the trailer to be steered freely as a drawbar unit....
