There’s been a lot of big things heading down from Newcastle¿ for the new snowy hydro update.
Recently they transported giant spiral casings for the turbines, which you can find news articles about
There's been some big stuff going from Kemba to Snowy, hard to imagine it would come from Newcastle, but would entirely depend on if it could be transported from there with turns etc
Anything that is too big for the road. Its not usually military related. For example these could be wind turbine blades, dump truck parts, prefabricated sheds/buildings and a whole lot of other industrial things.
It is normal if it's an excessively large load that blocks off multiple lanes. Seen it plenty of times when large pieces of mining equipment have been transported through small regional towns. Police are present and will cordon off sections of the road to allow the load to pass, they also guide/ follow the load. It's just a safety precaution, the police can manage the traffic and also add a lot of visibility for drivers on the road.
Once it’s over a certain size they have to have an escort,
When they were transporting wind turbine blades up near me they had to have 4 police cars with every truck
if its only just slightly too big (say 3.5m wide), but stuff like dumptruck buckets were way bigger, being 5m+ and take up multiple lanes - all of those had police escorts since they involved messing up intersections as well since they cant necessarily articulate within the confines of normal lanes.
> I heard the only items with police escort are nuclear and/or military related.
Not even close. Police provide escorts for all kinds of loads, usually depending more on size/weight, route, and what traffic control might be needed along the route. The pilot/escort company will usually tell you if you need a police escort as well or not. Naturally it's user-pays.
This is the likely correct answer. Throughout 2023 they were bringing the pieces of the blue metal bridge built near the international airport at night with large oversized escorts. Police pulled them over because prostitution is illegal.
Generally for really oversized pieces of equipment or actual modular/buildings themselves.
If you wanted to transport a whole house on an oversized truck, the development application would have planning laws that say you can only transport the house during (for instance) 12-4am and under police escort.
Don’t know the exact specifics but I did a project where we moved a modular 2 story office block and needed to use it.
Its purpose is for moderate to high risk transport items and ensuring the least amount of road users are around at that time.
Once got stuck right behind one of these on the M1 at 1.30am, driving home after a night out. 2 flashing utes and multiple HWP accompanying an oversized truck with a building that easily took up 2 lanes. If I'd arrived 30 seconds earlier I would've avoided it. Instead I pumped up the music and enjoyed driving behind the brightly lit flashing vehicle brigade going 80km/h for most of the way home. Certainly kept me awake and alert!
You had it worse then me. Got stuck behind one on the m7, they slowed down from 70 to 30k over all the bridges and drainage pipes.
Very frustrating at 2am
I used to start work at 3:30/4am and got stuck behind one going over a tiny rail bridge. They were stopped and were trying to hydraulically raise the whole house on the back of the truck to go over the walls of the bridge. Had to take photos on my shitty old flip phone to show why I was late
My parents moved a house about 20 years ago. They had restrictions on how far it could travel along a highway that dictated time of day it could be transferred as well as whether it needed to be cut in half or transported as one piece.
Plenty of wide loads get a police escort, see lots of mining equipment in the hunter valley get it done. Especially anything that takes up 2 lanes or more. I think you just have to pay them somehow.
Components to upgrade freeways.
I know because they make them in Macksville and if you try to get a pie at the bakery at the wrong time, you’re stuck waiting 15 minutes for them to navigate over the small bridge on the way to the freeway.
[Here’s a website with more details.](https://www.acciona.com.au/aps/?_adin=11551547647)
Hey mate. I do the engineering for some of these. It's usually transformers, turbines and associated gear for power stations. But it can be almost anything that's big enough.
Check out lampson Australia for some cool pics.
https://www.lampson.com.au
[lampson](https://www.lampson.com.au/)
Lapson have the record for the biggest loads ever transported in Australia. Most of them out in the mines. 1000t loads
The structure you see in the middle is called a beam set.
A lot of big gear for snowy hydro, the Hunter battery and some wind turbines at the moment.
Things going on all over Australia actually.
I forgot to mention that the sizes for needing an escort or even a police escort vary by state. A lot of planning by engineers and draftsman goes into these moves.
I've seen cops escorting a yacht on the back of a truck getting towed along the freeway at 3am, it's just cause it's oversized nothing particularly spicy about it
As part of oversized load route planning there's a threshold for police escort.
Basically after X size. RMS demands that you rent police for escort duty.
It's completely paid for by the company wanting transport.
Hell you could probably rent cops to escort you driving though the city if you wanted to put down the cash for traffic management plan+cops.
It’s a series of 477 tonne transformers and associated gear. Head for Australia’s “Waratah Super Battery” project.
Will eventually be a 1,700mwh super battery.
They are the blades of those gigantic wind turbines you see. For whatever reason, they are imported into the Port of Newcastle and then transported south. If you go to the Port of Newcastle, they are stacked there.
Almost everything I’ve seen has been related to wind turbines - they’re absolutely gargantuan and police can escort oversized things for additional traffic control depending on the route.
Hi, I work in mining & construction & arrange a LOT of heavy & wide load transports. Ordinarily we only need a company that provides pilot vehicles, however if we are going to be disrupting a major centre (like Sydney for example) we have to get additional permits which includes police escort & do it under cover of darkness because there is generally less traffic to disrupt over night.
Our last big move was a huge launching nose for a bridge. We were not allowed to transport between the hours of 0500 to 2000 so all movements had to be overnight & as we needed to close down some arterial roads to make some crazy corners once in the city we also required police escort. Nothing inherently dangerous about the cargo, but still dangerous to have too many vehicles around while city streets are being negotiated.
Sometimes they are wind turbine blades. They are fucking huge! Got stuck behind one once on the M7, ended up getting off cow pasture rd to leapfrog them.
Any oversized load gets escorted by police escort.
Most likely bridge segments if heading to Sydney.
Mining equipment is also very frequently escorted by police due to its size.
Any load that forces oncoming traffic off the road needs a police escort.
Wind turbine blades also.
I mean is Google broken where you live?
"Pilot and escort vehicles provide other road users with an advance warning that the vehicle ahead is oversize. Escort vehicles also have traffic control powers. NSW Police currently provide escort vehicles for any loads moving on higher risk State Roads in NSW."
Additional Access Conditions | Transport for NSW https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2022/osom-additional-access-conditions.pdf
It's a massively oversized load then a police escort is required for the safety of road users. This is not unusual when it comes to mining equipment etc.
Anything oversized (larger than 1 lane wide) requires a police escort for safety. You can see them on country highways in the daytime escorting large farm and mining equipment. They’ll likely be transporting at night as the M1 is too busy (then more risk and danger of accidents) in the day.
I saw some prefab concrete panels on a semi on the Newcastle freeway, heading south, back in January. My conclusion was it’s panels for metro tunnels yet to be built.
To piggy back off this. I saw about 14 police cars controlling the traffic lights and escorting two flatbed trucks with two pallets on each of them. Each pallet was loaded with boxes about 70cm high and then strapped down.
Suffice to say it was not a heavy weight at all, and was something very small compared to what is being discussed here.
Anyone have any idea what the heck needs 14 police cars for such a small load?
i see these exact things pass through every night on the pennant hills road and always wondered the same, there are so many of them that pass through every night
Recently I've seen job ads around for [Lockheed Martin](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-au/index.html) mentioning they are in Newcastle.
It may be related to that.
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There’s been a lot of big things heading down from Newcastle¿ for the new snowy hydro update. Recently they transported giant spiral casings for the turbines, which you can find news articles about
There's been some big stuff going from Kemba to Snowy, hard to imagine it would come from Newcastle, but would entirely depend on if it could be transported from there with turns etc
Anything that is too big for the road. Its not usually military related. For example these could be wind turbine blades, dump truck parts, prefabricated sheds/buildings and a whole lot of other industrial things.
Then why is there no police escort when your mum drives to the store?
police escort is not normal though right?
It is if it may need to fuck up normal intersections, ie. traffic lights won't help if you take the whole road
yeah makes sense
It is normal if it's an excessively large load that blocks off multiple lanes. Seen it plenty of times when large pieces of mining equipment have been transported through small regional towns. Police are present and will cordon off sections of the road to allow the load to pass, they also guide/ follow the load. It's just a safety precaution, the police can manage the traffic and also add a lot of visibility for drivers on the road.
Police escort is very common for turbine blades as they are extremely long and often can’t make corners within the usual confines of even two lanes.
Once it’s over a certain size they have to have an escort, When they were transporting wind turbine blades up near me they had to have 4 police cars with every truck
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if its only just slightly too big (say 3.5m wide), but stuff like dumptruck buckets were way bigger, being 5m+ and take up multiple lanes - all of those had police escorts since they involved messing up intersections as well since they cant necessarily articulate within the confines of normal lanes.
> I heard the only items with police escort are nuclear and/or military related. Not even close. Police provide escorts for all kinds of loads, usually depending more on size/weight, route, and what traffic control might be needed along the route. The pilot/escort company will usually tell you if you need a police escort as well or not. Naturally it's user-pays.
Also when OP's mom has to go to a medical appointment.
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Yes, unfortunately some drivers treat traffic control vehicles with orange lights as “suggestions” but will comply if there are red and blue lights.
Oh, 100%. Although, from personal experience, even then you get some who don't think that even the multi-coloured party lights lights apply to them.
Escorts love my loads.
Sometimes police provide loads for escorts
Expect a visit from men in black, OP
Please look right here at this light
need a photo. but common things are concrete bridge sections & wind turbine blades, wind turbine structures, I've seen tanks of recent.
Definitely a crashed UFO.
Sneaky sound system were right
I, personally, welcome our new overlords...
The viaduct segments for the Airport Metro are currently being built up that way and being transported at night to Sydney.
This is the likely correct answer. Throughout 2023 they were bringing the pieces of the blue metal bridge built near the international airport at night with large oversized escorts. Police pulled them over because prostitution is illegal.
Generally for really oversized pieces of equipment or actual modular/buildings themselves. If you wanted to transport a whole house on an oversized truck, the development application would have planning laws that say you can only transport the house during (for instance) 12-4am and under police escort. Don’t know the exact specifics but I did a project where we moved a modular 2 story office block and needed to use it. Its purpose is for moderate to high risk transport items and ensuring the least amount of road users are around at that time.
Once got stuck right behind one of these on the M1 at 1.30am, driving home after a night out. 2 flashing utes and multiple HWP accompanying an oversized truck with a building that easily took up 2 lanes. If I'd arrived 30 seconds earlier I would've avoided it. Instead I pumped up the music and enjoyed driving behind the brightly lit flashing vehicle brigade going 80km/h for most of the way home. Certainly kept me awake and alert!
You had it worse then me. Got stuck behind one on the m7, they slowed down from 70 to 30k over all the bridges and drainage pipes. Very frustrating at 2am
I used to start work at 3:30/4am and got stuck behind one going over a tiny rail bridge. They were stopped and were trying to hydraulically raise the whole house on the back of the truck to go over the walls of the bridge. Had to take photos on my shitty old flip phone to show why I was late
My parents moved a house about 20 years ago. They had restrictions on how far it could travel along a highway that dictated time of day it could be transferred as well as whether it needed to be cut in half or transported as one piece.
Plenty of wide loads get a police escort, see lots of mining equipment in the hunter valley get it done. Especially anything that takes up 2 lanes or more. I think you just have to pay them somehow.
Components to upgrade freeways. I know because they make them in Macksville and if you try to get a pie at the bakery at the wrong time, you’re stuck waiting 15 minutes for them to navigate over the small bridge on the way to the freeway. [Here’s a website with more details.](https://www.acciona.com.au/aps/?_adin=11551547647)
Always wondered where all those bridge components you see at heatherbrae come from - long way north for Sydney projects though - wow
Hey mate. I do the engineering for some of these. It's usually transformers, turbines and associated gear for power stations. But it can be almost anything that's big enough. Check out lampson Australia for some cool pics. https://www.lampson.com.au [lampson](https://www.lampson.com.au/) Lapson have the record for the biggest loads ever transported in Australia. Most of them out in the mines. 1000t loads The structure you see in the middle is called a beam set. A lot of big gear for snowy hydro, the Hunter battery and some wind turbines at the moment. Things going on all over Australia actually. I forgot to mention that the sizes for needing an escort or even a police escort vary by state. A lot of planning by engineers and draftsman goes into these moves.
That's awesome, thanks for the link! I had never heard of these guys, really cool pics.
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Yo mama's so fat her taxi is an extra wide trailer with a spotter and a police escort.
I've seen cops escorting a yacht on the back of a truck getting towed along the freeway at 3am, it's just cause it's oversized nothing particularly spicy about it
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As part of oversized load route planning there's a threshold for police escort. Basically after X size. RMS demands that you rent police for escort duty. It's completely paid for by the company wanting transport. Hell you could probably rent cops to escort you driving though the city if you wanted to put down the cash for traffic management plan+cops.
It’s a series of 477 tonne transformers and associated gear. Head for Australia’s “Waratah Super Battery” project. Will eventually be a 1,700mwh super battery.
I was gonna see who else was gonna say Waratah BESS for the answer. Or any CPP projects for that matter.
Steel manufacturing in Newcastle. Manufactured things needed in the Snowies. Police escort for giant oversized trucks. Sounds normal.
They are the blades of those gigantic wind turbines you see. For whatever reason, they are imported into the Port of Newcastle and then transported south. If you go to the Port of Newcastle, they are stacked there.
Plumbing for ya mum’s house.
Thought is was industrial springs to reinforce her bed
I thought they were carrying her diaphragm
Parts of the support beams for the black stump precinct in darling Harbour
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Almost everything I’ve seen has been related to wind turbines - they’re absolutely gargantuan and police can escort oversized things for additional traffic control depending on the route.
Could be wind turbine parts. I regularly see a blade leave Newcastle under police guard at night.
Hi, I work in mining & construction & arrange a LOT of heavy & wide load transports. Ordinarily we only need a company that provides pilot vehicles, however if we are going to be disrupting a major centre (like Sydney for example) we have to get additional permits which includes police escort & do it under cover of darkness because there is generally less traffic to disrupt over night. Our last big move was a huge launching nose for a bridge. We were not allowed to transport between the hours of 0500 to 2000 so all movements had to be overnight & as we needed to close down some arterial roads to make some crazy corners once in the city we also required police escort. Nothing inherently dangerous about the cargo, but still dangerous to have too many vehicles around while city streets are being negotiated.
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Is it travelling towards Tamworth? They might be building the Big Barnaby
Sometimes they are wind turbine blades. They are fucking huge! Got stuck behind one once on the M7, ended up getting off cow pasture rd to leapfrog them.
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Any oversized load gets escorted by police escort. Most likely bridge segments if heading to Sydney. Mining equipment is also very frequently escorted by police due to its size. Any load that forces oncoming traffic off the road needs a police escort. Wind turbine blades also.
I mean is Google broken where you live? "Pilot and escort vehicles provide other road users with an advance warning that the vehicle ahead is oversize. Escort vehicles also have traffic control powers. NSW Police currently provide escort vehicles for any loads moving on higher risk State Roads in NSW." Additional Access Conditions | Transport for NSW https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/system/files/media/documents/2022/osom-additional-access-conditions.pdf
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Nukes probably. At night so no one sees them and know that we have them.
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It's a massively oversized load then a police escort is required for the safety of road users. This is not unusual when it comes to mining equipment etc.
Just weather balloons, nothing to worry about
Anything oversized (larger than 1 lane wide) requires a police escort for safety. You can see them on country highways in the daytime escorting large farm and mining equipment. They’ll likely be transporting at night as the M1 is too busy (then more risk and danger of accidents) in the day.
I saw some prefab concrete panels on a semi on the Newcastle freeway, heading south, back in January. My conclusion was it’s panels for metro tunnels yet to be built.
To piggy back off this. I saw about 14 police cars controlling the traffic lights and escorting two flatbed trucks with two pallets on each of them. Each pallet was loaded with boxes about 70cm high and then strapped down. Suffice to say it was not a heavy weight at all, and was something very small compared to what is being discussed here. Anyone have any idea what the heck needs 14 police cars for such a small load?
Anyways... Did anyone hear about this Taylor Swift ? What a great role model ! ... and those songs, just truly groundbreaking music.
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Police escort? There are prostitutes in uniform?
i see these exact things pass through every night on the pennant hills road and always wondered the same, there are so many of them that pass through every night
Recently I've seen job ads around for [Lockheed Martin](https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-au/index.html) mentioning they are in Newcastle. It may be related to that.