Police escort a large oxygen tanker through suburban streets

Staffordshire Police escort a large 225 tonne medical grade oxygen tank through Stafford before coming to rest near Cannock in Staffordshire, UK.
The 225 tonne oxygen tank, belonging to AirLiquide, was empty during transport. The load was 49m long, 6.5m high and 4.9m wide and transported by Collett Ltd. Due to the abnormal load's size, police were available to shut down junctions and escort the convoy through South Staffordshire. Various staff were on hand to cut trees, lift BT cables and move roadside furniture to allow for the safe passage of the vehicle.
The load was 1 of 4 to pass through the county of Staffordshire in approximately 6 weeks. Due to the difficult movement of the load and the fact it wont fit on motorways, the journey of each load took 5 days to pass through the county, including populated areas of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, Rugeley, Cannock, Sutton Coldfield and other places. It took a week to travel from Ellesmere Port to Coleshill.
This video was filmed on day 3 of 5 of the journey through Staffordshire, which came from Cheshire and was heading to Warwickshire. You can see my video of day 1 here: • Large medical grade ox...
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Recorded: Jun 17, 2020
Published: Jun 19, 2020

[@alexr8996]

Imagine being stuck behind this the whole way home from work.

[@CobraEmergency]

That's a long commute!

[@mrjohn.whereyoufrom]

8.55 Nothing says more British than moving a heavy load with a mug of tea by the controls.

[@treeman101]

its the way we do things

[@staffsemergresp]

😂👍

[@travelling_stephen]

Got to get your priorities right 😊

[@samantharichardson6956]

Well, us British people can’t go without our tea

[@Krystl_YT]

8:55

[@yamin1702]

The driver of the load must have some mad patience

[@peterdukess9115]

thought that was my delivery of beer for the weekend

[@stephensnell1379]

Imagine if it was it would certainly be a high amount of it

[@alfrredd]

Don't mind me, I'm just getting my beer delivery

[@samcree3051]

No don't worry I won't get too drunk 😂

[@archechme]

5:45 good job he has a safety hat on, it'll protect him against that 225 tonne tanker /s

[@melin1969]

no doubt has steel toe capped boots on as well

[@f.b.lagent1113]

everything within 100 meters would be blasted the f off this earth if that explodes, but hey he’s wearing protection

[@Ahrio76]

@@f.b.lagent1113 it's empty

[@YelpBullhorn]

Correct, but a hard hat might protect his head if he stands up out of his seat and bangs his head on the tank.

[@archechme]

@@YelpBullhorn Of course. I just find it funny how people wear PPE in certain scenarios where regardless of what you're wearing, if something went wrong, it'd be almost certain death and there's nothing a silly plastic hat would do.

[@RandyDarkshade2]

Rest in peace headphone users.

[@Joshchriston]

🤣🤣🤣😭😭

[@hijazahijazi449]

🤣🤣🤣

[@sebxiou-lifestyle4465]

ROFL... brilliant!

[@msspynoodle6505]

Not if you read and turn it down.

[@legendarykeyboardwarrior8364]

Thx for warning.. i am saved.

[@joshw1687]

Keep getting these unusual moves. It's cool watching the police and transport company work together

[@fuckingrobert]

I worked in this job and it's extremely hard. You have to sleep in the van and you get home once a week. The trucks go like 20km/h uphill and downhill on the highway and the faster they move is at 70km/h. In Spain, a trip from Barcelona to Malaga takes about 3 days.

[@robpalfrey9801]

they certainly do well out of it by how much they charge!

[@God_of_pain_2.0]

Yes

[@nicolecarre2577]

Zzza Zas3z

[@sarahjaneclarke6614]

The skill of the driver's and the police operation is excellent

[@andrei01918]

The sound the tanker makes when going by sounds like a broken symphony, hope thoose guys from underneath have ear protection...

[@God_of_pain_2.0]

Lol

[@God_of_pain_2.0]

Me and my music class

[@noahater5785]

Just looked, they don't. I hope you like being deaf.

[@almasmith2733]

WHY WOULD ANYONE WISH TO BE TOO NEAR TO THIS HUGE TANK. JOB WELL DONE GUYS

[@Armuotas]

Let's all stop and appreciate the casualness of the tea cup at 8:55.

[@MoskusMoskiferus1611]

Typical British

[@robloxfan4271]

That’s one skilled truck driver

[@retrocomputinggrotto]

Love the mug of tea/coffee/something-else that the operator of the rear trailer has just sitting there! :)

[@GamingWithLit]

Thats a huge chamber for just an O²

[@diamond4791]

an O²? What you talking about? They obviously need a lot of oxygen so travel with more... You don't get "an O²". It's a gas.

[@hitop2365]

Would have been a lot easier if they’d filled it with helium and towed it with a bit of string.

[@lincolntrains2639]

@@hitop2365 Lol

[@koharumi1]

By airship sounds good

[@1chish]

Apart from admiring some superb driving and Police teamwork three things made me smile: @04:24 the start of the synchronised farting of 30+ air bags @05:33 the hi-tech spirit level to check the lean on the load. @08:52 the mug of tea on the rear trailer driver. Magically British.

[@fairylou73]

Love it that the man under the tanker has is brew with him ☕

[@ILEFTYT.]

Is it even safe for that man under the tanker drinking the cuppa.😀🚛

[@fairylou73]

@@ILEFTYT. that what I like about him sod health and safety I have my brew no matter what ☕ going on

[@samcree3051]

I mean like u can't work without ur brew am I right?

[@wavydavy9816]

That noise is the actual sound that bagpipes make when you're warming up 👍

[@Lancashire999]

Nice one! Soon you will be at half a million subscribers!

[@CobraEmergency]

Hope so! 😊😊😊😊😍 Thank you!

[@ballbounces968]

So glad you put the notice up for headphone use to turn down the volume that squel

[@999_response]

Great work!!! Amazing piece of work & technology going on.

[@ronancollins1839]

🎶im still standing,after all those brakes,and ma eardrums aren't burst yet🎶

[@emdowww9150]

9:04 The most British thing you will see today

[@samantharichardson6956]

Well us British can’t go without our tea and our crumpets for breakfast

[@clareshaughnessy2745]

Why is this so exiting?? I don’t know but it is. I only wish I could have seen it for real

[@CobraEmergency]

Oh yes it is fun to watch. Keep an eye on local news for 'abnormal / wide loads'

[@nathankaye1577]

The hard hat won't help the guy sitting underneath if it collapsed 😂

[@hxrris5306]

Where are they going to take it and what medical facility can store that? It's huge

[@everhope6364]

There are actually 4 tanks due to be delivered over the next few weeks there for a hospital in Warwickshire

[@SouthWales-ov8ry]

ever hope all that storage for one hospital can’t see that somehow

[@everhope6364]

@@SouthWales-ov8ry that's what it says on the contractors website just passing it on

[@kenzie1968]

@@SouthWales-ov8ry Yes, the hospital can cope. It has several large tanks that can hold the liquid for quite a while

[@julesh707]

It’s end location is a company called Air Liquide in Coleshill. 3 more of these to follow over the coming weeks. Not sure if Air Liquide are updating their current tanks or expanding hence requiring these.

[@andrea050405]

I would put all of the videos on!! Don’t you think it’s weird putting 4 of these into one hospital?? How much air does one hospital need?? Is there a second wave of covid expected? Plus did the big hospital in London ever get used? Hmmm 🧐 weird? I would upload all the videos thank you for putting them on! Stay safe 👍🙏

[@rogerbarton497]

Great stuff - appreciate the subtitles.

[@butakiss]

Love to know what the freight (move) charge was for this ...😣😣😣 Must be a big hospital to need this big of a tank😁

[@peterrowlands6406]

Never knew there were so many police, hard to find somtimes.

[@joshd718]

If this was US police, they’d be screaming at people to move out the way, waving their guns in the air

[@pavloss3119]

TF is u talking about buddy

[@mick.5382]

It’s called humour mate.

[@lord_scrubington]

imagine being the guy riding on the seat placed on the side of the trailer tho. Must be an epic ride

[@joesanchez979]

Wow that's a big oxygen tank😮

[@ChessPlayer78]

we urgently need this in India now...

[@nightskyremedies]

it may be for that

[@IamNasman]

I don’t fancy the trailer controllers job, if the load moves, they’re just going to be a red smear.

[@almilhouse9059]

The tiny warning before the load starts screaming 😅😅😅 I love the comments made for the R.I.P headphone users it's brilliant

[@jamesschultz2039]

Damn, I didn't think these things could be so huge. I can only imagine how much of a headache they are.

[@mtssman]

Dude, my compliments to your microphone because my eardrum just disintegrated...

[@HunterAlejandro]

So nice and great. Well done! Special kudos for truck-driver!

[@CobraEmergency]

Absolutely amazing skill

[@NFTAMetro]

Legends say, til' this day the oil truck is still on the road..

[@zachoo5135]

When she says size doesn't matter.

[@noahater5785]

Oh jeez, the load making high pitched screeching sounds sounds like a group of banshees trapped in there, or perhaps a large broken symphony

[@RedHat2023]

One thing I don't understand is that the RPU motor units are equipped with a D&R Electronics 21cm Road Alert Message board, but I never see them using it in this video. Especially with the motor unit(s) at the back of the convoy holding traffic back. You would think they would use it, but, yeah. I don't get why they didn't.

[@49cchris]

had trouble backing up a caravan once wow

[@samcree3051]

And I have trouble even thinking about it 😐😐😐

[@mcsheesh278]

What crazy is that the load is only being held by a couple of chains

[@fasttrackblastback8286]

And they're a gimmick really. They're not stopping that if it rolls

[@clappedman8540]

Don't you just hate it when the street is clogged up with street furniture

[@ArmanMCMXCV]

Imagine driving manual in this situation, stuck in gear one 😭.

[@allansheldrake4832]

that noise is the inboard breaks on these trailers

[@samcerulean1412]

If that load was to come off, that guy sitting at the front of the trailer would be squished. LOL!

[@Messicrafter]

I like how you Brits call oversize load abnormal loads

[@CobraEmergency]

Abnormalities!

[@colinshearring3934]

The power of hydraulics

[@alexanderloadsmanthefirebu3753]

Wow that tank is massive

[@davestationuk7374]

Look for footage of oil/gas modules being moved to dock , that shit is amazing to watch

[@TristanBailey]

What is it when they finish? Compress air for a factory? Be interested to know how the wheels under and trucks work as to how much is pushing and how much massive breaking power. Somehow when we in England move things. Doesn’t look as impressive as a house in America. Maybe just smaller roads.

[@ryand2022]

Whats the benefit of this rather than moving it in say 2 half size containers at 10x the speed???

[@simonjackson7269]

Ah! An expert!!

[@Twittler1]

So you think that a 112.5 tonne tank could be moved significantly quicker? Or even a 56.25 tonne one? 🙄🙄🙄

[@begexqisweird9124]

I’d like to see America do this!

[@chrisst8922]

I was a bit surprised that the police were so involved because I usually see large loads escorted by private haulage companies. I guess this one was so big it needed more resources. Air Liquide is the biggest gas company in the world.

[@BritishEmergency]

It's because it requires road closures and traffic management which civilians can't do

[@MikeStarKaraokeUK]

Not seen one that size before. Only seen petrol tankers going.

[@user-charlie2]

There just delivering 250 tons of tea.

[@MRWonderingHaggis]

Nice filming work

[@CobraEmergency]

Thanks.

[@sallybunn]

Whoever designed that must be a few pence short of a shilling, it would have been a lot easier to manoeuvre along the roads if there had been 4 smaller tanks instead of of one great big one.

[@decam5329]

8:55 got his cuppa tea! All right with the world.

[@CobraEmergency]

Can't not have a cuppa tea!

[@ArmanMCMXCV]

I wonder how much the truck driver got paid 😂.

[@diomalmandiaye9024]

What a lucky driver. Definitely won’t be me.

[@19DS01]

Kudos to the trailer operators and lorry drivers.

[@mrlahm1]

I saw one of these passing along the M56 through Ellesmere Port

[@mariea82]

How? Surely it’s too slow for a motorway!

[@ShanghaiAuto4K]

awesome catch! how is AX53 feeling? Nice device?

[@niawashington113]

4:19 When i wake up for school.

[@tswdude2675]

Ow

[@ph11p3540]

With the way those trailer breaks squeal the moving company must change the breaks for every single job.

[@craighanson-rc1md]

Sorry but was wasn't the road cleared of trees & what not the day before or even a week before. I mean seriously talk about delaying the entire thing so you can do it as the truck comes to it.

[@jessicaratcliffe1305]

I've gone down that road so then I can go for a walk

[@mikeakamiky7245]

Great video cobra months of planning and coordination with heavy haulage jobs. Stay safe and with the rest or all of your footage of this haul you could do a timelapse video of it 👍

[@jeremywilliams1835]

I think their breaks need to be checked

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video !!

[@ingodwetrustdellaware-inc8322]

Jesus almighty Have Mercy 🥺 Wow Most people 🙄 watching this in disbelief

[@vanessahuman7607]

Better get the brakes fixed before the next job

[@ElsieBrice]

That roundabout looks familiar.

[@Danny_ll]

Why not just build 2 , half the size?

[@sakithgunaratna5775]

4:37 sounds like hogwarts or something

[@patriot4786]

Do the truckers or the company of the trucks have to pay an additional fee to the escorters or are those services free of charge from the police?

[@MikeyManchester]

They have to pay and get permission of councils and highways as some utility wires need taking down or propped up. Street furniture removed then reinstated. They have to plan months ahead for it. Sometimes they do a dry run without the load. Stafford is well known for wide loads

[@nightskyremedies]

that sqeaking sound wil be good for a horror film lol like sonething slowly chasing ulol

[@emptybucket1988]

What was this tank used for ?

[@nightskyremedies]

bomb lol or somwthibg secret

[@Fm_1055]

Why are the people checking the road for obstacles wearing hard hats?

[@stephenm4034]

It's just one of those health and safety requirements for working around heavy machinery.

[@Fm_1055]

@@stephenm4034 oh, ok thanks

[@markforster6948]

just seen it, Radford Bank/Weeping cross, 6 in total I think

[@craigmartin5939]

Smart looking cop car at 1:26. What's that a Vauxhall is it? I'm in Australia so I don't know. Looks similar to a Toyota Camry!

[@CobraEmergency]

Vauxhall Insignia that's right! I believe the Australian equivalent is a Holden Commodore.

[@joshuamorehead6124]

Cool video just like the previous one👍

[@peaz4033]

Nice video cobra be safe our there when recording your new videos awesome video too!! 😁

[@CobraEmergency]

Thank you! I will do. 😁

[@peaz4033]

@@CobraEmergency 😁😁

[@camarocougar2726]

why do openreach tag along with this convoy? Incase any telephone poles are damaged?

[@wrench8677]

Lifting low hanging cables and removing low branches as well

[@reginauk-vlog2232]

Is about the creative for dealing something here in uk 🇬🇧

[@robloxfan4271]

this so needs to be added to ets2

[@farmingace1015]

Yea

[@SonofthePhantom]

That is a sight to behold

[@CobraEmergency]

It really is!

[@garystefan3995]

Wouldn't it be more convenient to use smaller oxygen cylinders?

[@rammigraterammigrate3533]

I was just about to make a similar comment. Surely several smaller but more easily portable and faster to move cylinders would minimise disruption. After all as long as they add up to the same volume as the large one what's the problem?

[@whatarewegonnabe2932]

Don't think the hard hats will be much use

[@stripemcr5722]

any idea how long did take this load to be moved from A to B ? and total distance .... thx

[@bewildered5444]

4:30 - Sounds like my knees first thing.

[@CobraEmergency]

Just pour some oil on it!

[@tmvse6337]

this went past my area

[@1122Schiedam]

Very Nice!

[@JadeEnby]

Why tf do I live so near where this was recorded, serisouly I live less than an hour away LMAOO

[@scotty101ire]

We,ll say nothing that every single machine used to move it was made in germany

[@blackeyyt_8667]

Im not surprised its escorted by police. Oxygen can be really danerous if paired whit the wrong things =))

[@anupku7286]

For which country?