Motorists on a major highway in Australia were delayed recently by large numbers of sheep falling into the roadway. The incident occurred near the town of Geelong when a livestock truck overturned at a highway slip road. A steady stream of the unfortunate animals then fell onto the busy Princes Highway directly below, impacting onto two vehicles in the process and halting traffic for a number of hours. The truck was carrying several hundred animals and large numbers were killed or injured as they fell onto
Milling efficiently with a versatile, mid-sized machine has offered benefits on a German road job. A German contractor has found that using a mid-sized milling machine from Wirtgen has offered a good combination of both versatility and productivity for a road rebuild job. Kassel-based milling specialist VORO has used a Wirtgen W 100 CFi to upgrade the surface of a section of the busy B3 route. The B3 is an important route and runs 755km from Buxtehude in the north of Germany through to the Swiss border in t
In France, Sarens used four Kamag SPMTs – self-propelled modular transporters – to move a bridge deck 70m and place it over the A11 at the autoroute’s Portes de Gesvres interchange.
