Due to a number of factors, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has announced the superload trip down Interstate 24 Eastbound from the 45 to 65-mile marker planned for Saturday had to be canceled.
District 1 spokesman Keith Todd says the specialized hauler now plans to make a run starting around 7:00 Sunday morning.
Eastbound traffic on I-24 will be slowed to about 40 miles per hour between the 45 and 65 exits for about 40 minutes starting around 7:45 Sunday morning along Interstate 24 through parts of Lyon, Caldwell, and Trigg Counties.
Todd indicates the superload plans to leave the Eddyville Riverport around 7:00 Sunday morning and then travel KY 93 southbound and get on the I-24 at the Princeton-Eddyville Exit 45.
The load is expected to enter I-24 eastbound around 7:45 and exit at the U.S. 68 Cadiz-Hopkinsville Exit 65 to reach its destination at Martinrea in Hopkinsville.
Eastbound motorists should be alert for slow-moving traffic as the 16-ft. wide hauler enters I-24. The load will move about 40 miles per hour with a police escort and support vehicles, which will create a traffic backup for eastbound I-24 traffic between Exit 45 and Exit 65.
According to Todd, Edwards Rigging is moving 6 parts of a large press to the Martinrea facility in Hopkinsville where they will be assembled as part of a plant expansion project.
This is the third of six trips Edwards Rigging plans to make along this route. Additional trips are planned about every other day over the next week.
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