Comment by plorg
6 days ago
If I had to guess the biggest problem for most roads is the height, followed by the width. Weight might still come into play for some potential routes that otherwise had enough clearance. It's not clear from that video but it's quite possible the load fits in the 14' height limit for interstates in the state of Texas. That would make this at least twice as tall.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about it, but you're probably correct that height is the issue.
The Jochenstein lock that was mentioned is 7.8m and they barely cleared under it. That would be quite a tall load and then you have to add the height of the carrier. You can easily run out of options for something that tall and the German routes look like they use cloverleaf interchanges which could easily be obstacles.
> load fits in the 14' height limit for interstates in the state of Texas
There are special routes up and out from the Houston ship channel that use mostly diamond interchanges that could accommodate even something like this. However, the roads that this would have traversed in Germany are laughably small by Texas freeway standards so I can certainly see there being no way to get between the two points.