12/20/2011
Selway shipment safely travels to Washington Tuesday morning
BOISE - An over-legal load being transported on U.S. 12 by the Selway Corp. reached the Idaho/Washington state line shortly after 4 a.m. Tuesday, the Idaho Transportation Department announced.
The shipment departed from the Lewiston Port of Entry at 3:30 a.m. Tuesday and stopped at the Washington state line at 4:17 a.m.
The load started traveling Friday evening from Stevensville in Montana toward Snoqualmie Falls, Wash. It entered Idaho on U.S. 12 shortly after 10 p.m. Friday. It is a pipe that weighs 185,000 pounds, is 95 feet in length, 22 feet wide and 17.10 feet high. The large-diameter pipe will divide water into two channels for a hydro project at Snoqualmie Falls.
Three traffic control flaggers, three pilot vehicles, an ambulance and a Selway Corp. service vehicle accompanied the shipment in Idaho.