Super Load Hits Forest County
Photo courtesy PennDOT
FOREST COUNTY – The super load from Erie to Lock Haven is on the road again, moving through Forest County at last report, including a trip across the Allegheny River at Hunter Station.
Officials in Clinton County say there has been no change as of yet that this Thursday remains the arrival day as the Yankee dryer wends its way to the First Quality Tissue facility in Castanea Township.
This is the first time one of the dryers for First Quality came from the port of Erie. Earlier deliveries were through the ports of Philadelphia and Baltimore.
The trip is being carried out only during daylight hours, accompanied by state police and PennDOT personnel, the speed at less than 15 miles an hour. Ace Heavy Haul of Chelsea, Oklahoma is transporting the load. PennDOT has issued an advisory as to “counterflows” on state roadways as the dryer works its way to its new home:
• Counterflow/opposite direction movement on SR 879 West off-ramp in the Clearfield Mall area—Clearfield County
• Multiple crossover movements on SR 879—Clearfield County
• Counterflow/opposite direction movement on SR 322 westbound off-ramp at Woodland intersection—Clearfield County
• Counterflow movement on SR 322 West—Centre County
• Crossover movement on SR 322 East and Blazosky Rd—Centre County
• Counterflow/opposite direction movement on SR 2015 (Mill Hall Rd)—Clinton County
• Counterflow/opposite direction movement on SR 220 South at exit 109—Clinton County
• Counterflow/opposite direction movement on SR2012 E/120 East in Lock Haven area—Clinton County
• Counterflow/opposite direction movement on SR 120 East on-ramp in Lock Haven area—Clinton County
