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Title: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: ehjorten on February 12, 2013, 08:47:01 am: 1 of 3 that we recently finished being loaded up for transport to the port and then overseas! God I love these trucks!!!

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Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: Remon. on February 12, 2013, 09:40:22 am: Awesome! Where does this beauty go?
Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: ehjorten on February 12, 2013, 11:03:36 am: They generally spend their lives in the desert. Usually they get a flat-bed on them and a couple of huge winches! They are often used as drilling rig movers. It is going over to Northern Africa.
Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: pholliday1 on February 12, 2013, 11:45:32 am: I don't care who you are......... Thats just cool
Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: ehjorten on February 13, 2013, 10:12:18 am: Here is one of my favorite pictures of a 953 (The 963 is a newer version of the 953 with a B-cab instead of the old A-cab on it). It was in some middle-eastern country but I don't remember which one.

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Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: Smarttravis1511 on February 13, 2013, 11:06:10 am: Them are freaking awesome!!! Talk about a long wheel base
Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: Jason S on February 13, 2013, 06:13:31 pm: I'd guess you'd need 40 acres to turn that rig around?
Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: frotosride on February 13, 2013, 07:27:03 pm: Quote from: Jason S on February 13, 2013, 06:13:31 pm
I'd guess you'd need 40 acres to turn that rig around?

+1 and the best part is you can clear all those acres with one simple twist of the steering wheel! I want one. no idea what I would do with it except run over stuff like...everything!!
Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: Damon23 on February 13, 2013, 07:48:53 pm: Last November while waiting for our cruise ship to leave port in ft lauderdale we got to watch them load heavy equipment onto those ships. That was neat to see just how strong those cranes were.
Title: Re: She's headed for the port to be shipped overseas!
Post by: Engineer on February 27, 2013, 07:16:07 am: Erik-

A guy who works for Kenworth posted pics of this truck over on RV.net. I asked him if he worked with you, but the mods deleted my post before he replied.