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> Bruning shared that other companies are piggybacking on the super load route plans now that accommodations have already been made

I would’ve thought the ability to do a super load or not determined a lot of your mfg/etc process. Seems surprising a company could switch over to a super load because it’s now available.

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Makes sense though if the route is already getting prepped for one load. It's a huge amount of work from logistical and coordinating effort (trains getting re-routed, hazmats cleared, roads shut down, etc) to get the route setup. May as well send any other extremely large shipments along while it's cleared.

Lots of companies have huge pieces of equipment sitting at factory X that they would rather have at factory Y for example.

There are plenty of applications where a single load would be more convenient for one way or another, but it's possible to do it in multiple loads with a final assembly step at the destination.

Nobody is going to spend months of planning and many millions of dollars on alterations to save a few grand on a one-off project. But hey, if someone else has already done the planning and alterations, why not piggyback off of that and save yourself some money?

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