The transport company contracted to haul three megaloads from the Port of Umatilla to the tar sands oil project in Alberta, Canada has run into two setbacks “that forced it to revise its travel plan with the Montana Department of Transportation,” according to Montana Missoulian.
That’s why the state’s transportation department has yet to issue a permit to the first of the oversized shipments, which continues to be parked 10 miles from the Idaho-Montana border.
According to the Missoulian, Montana transportation officials say a revised plan would now see the megaload travel from Lost Trail Pass to Bonner, Mont., in its current configuration. Then the shipment would need to be retrofitted for the rest of its journey north.
Meanwhile, a second megaload is still in Idaho as well — parked 280 miles behind the first, near Fairfield.
The Idaho Transportation Department has indicated that it doesn’t want the second shipment to roll until the first clears the Montana border.
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