Barnhart’s Los Angeles branch was hired to offload, transload and haul 10 pieces of cargo from Yuma, Arizona, to Gonzalez Ortega in Mexicali, Mexico and San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. The components were received in Yuma and offloaded using 600-ton J&R gantries.
The cargo consisted of six 710,000-pound generators and four 478,000-pound gas turbines, which were each loaded onto a 16- line Goldhofer SPMT system. The longest convoy was 320 feet long, including trucks and trailers, making it one of the biggest trailer configurations the Arizona DOT has ever permitted.
Customs on both sides of the border came together to assist Barnhart with the coordination of the massive trailer through a commercial border crossing. En route to one project site, the crew encountered a bridge that couldn’t handle the million-pound cargo and had to be jumped with 60' bridge jumpers.
Once the cargo reached its destinations, the components were offloaded using a 700-ton crane. This was Barnhart’s first haul into Mexico.