| Yes, they actually measure the roundabouts. When moving oversized cargo, a route survey can become an engineering project of its own. It’s not enough to know that a road connects point A to point B, every part of the journey has to work for a load that may be wider, longer, taller or heavier than anything the road was designed for. And roundabouts can be surprisingly tricky. Engineers need to check the turning radius, available space, road width, slopes and even nearby street furniture to make sure the transport combination can actually make the turn. In some heavy transport projects, routes can involve hundreds of bridges, tight bends and large roundabouts that all need to be assessed before the journey begins. The cargo itself can weigh well over 100 tonnes. So yes, sometimes a roundabout is not just a roundabout. It can be one of the things that determines whether a route works at all. That’s project logistics: looking at the road a little differently than everyone else does. |