MISSOULA, Mont. -- The state Department of Transportation is reviewing a plan for moving trailer-loads of specialized mining equipment from Idaho, through northwestern Montana and into Canada.
Starting some time next fall and continuing most weekdays for a year, trucks and trailers up to 165 feet long, 24 feet wide and 30 feet high will travel from Lewiston, Idaho, over Lolo Pass and through Missoula County to oil fields in northern Alberta.
Imperial Oil/Exxon Mobil studied several possible routes and found the best plan to be shipping the Korean-made equipment to the Port of Portland and up the Columbia and Snake rivers to Lewiston, Idaho. There it will be loaded onto special trailers for its trek over Lolo Pass in to Montana and then north into Canada.
