Witness: ITD made Conoco cut its two huge drums in half to make four loads
Reymundo Rodriguez, ITD's commercial vehicles service manager, testified this morning that ConocoPhillips originally proposed to move its two giant coker drums as two huge megaloads, but ITD determined that in that configuration, they were too big to travel the route from the Port of Lewiston along U.S. Highway 12. So it asked the firm to cut the drums in half to make four loads, which the company did. "We were concerned because of the length of the drums and the weight," Rodriguez said under cross-examination by attorneys for the loads' opponents. "We agreed that once they cut them in half, it was something that could safely travel on this highway."