Big rig blocks traffic in Decorah temporarily

Click on photo for larger image

Traffic on Highways 52 and 9 in Decorah was halted briefly before 8:00 Tuesday morning in order to allow a wide load to move through the intersection.

The truck was owned by Anderson Trucking Systems (ATS) of St. Cloud,Minnesota and was hauling a bucket for a shovel to be used in a copper mine inMexico. 

The truck came from the Cenex parking lot in Postville and headed north on Highway 52, then west on Highway 9 to Cresco.  The bucket was being trucked from Wisconsin through Iowa and South Dakotaand then south through Nebraska to Mexico.

The truck was 120 feet long, 15 feet 6 inches wide and 17 feet tall.  Between the truck and the load it was carrying, the total rig weighed 215,000 pounds.