Transporting Exceptional Loads  

DVD

 
Directed by Gertjan Houtman  
Released 2002
 
   
55 minutes
 
DVD £15.95 inc VAT
  
 
ISBN 1-905523-00-9
 

Each of the exceptional loads shown in this programme was a project requiring individual attention and equipment.
Perhaps the highlight is the road transport of a Boeing 747 on three different trailers to a German museum. Although the fuselage of the aircraft was 70 metres long and 18 metres high it is not the largest item on the video. That was the new bollard-shaped head office of the Dutch company Mammoet seen transported whole over land and water to its permanent site.

Other items include the transport of bridge sections, boats and a pair of valuable equestrian bronze sculptures.
Throughout the programme, the skills of the transport companies and their personnel are explained and a feature is included on how modular trailers are built..

 
Transporting Exceptional Loads - Truckstar
 
  Inside Nooteboom’s trailer-building factory where most of the trailers are one-offs built from standard components
A load valued at 8 million Euros: the yacht Islandia, 40 metres long and weighing about 109 tonnes