VicRoads guides super oversize truck load through Ararat on Western Highway

However, people along High Street in Ararat on Wednesday morning couldn’t help but stare when a gigantic steel structure made its way carefully through town.

Having negotiated its way through Horsham the previous day, the truck and its attendant safety convoy inched through Ararat.

The east-bound truck stopped a few times, including just past the railway crossing, to let numerous vehicles past.

Oversize trucks, depending on the load, travel with one or no pilot safety vehicle to warn oncoming traffic.

Wednesday’s truck had three pilot vehicles, including one equipped with surveillance cameras, and a VicRoads patrol car with purple flashing lights.

A VicRoads traffic control spokesperson was not available to supply information on what the cargo was or where it was going.