A cubic foot of gold (pure) weighs about 1,400 pounds. So a truck loaded with a 3 x 20 x 6-foot stack of gold bars would have 360 cubic feet of metal, or 504,000 pounds (252 tons) if my head and calculator are working tonight.
Excuse my skepticism. I'm no truck expert but I don't think that's possible. Even it it's 14 karat gold (about 58% pure) it would still weigh 146 tons. That truck must have AWESOME brakes!
I hadn't seen the dimensions given, but you raise a very interesting point. That much volume of pure gold would weigh far too much for a truck. Either the figures are wrong or the space is filled with something besides gold.
$90 million in Gold would weigh something on the order of 20,000lbs. Since even 300 cuft of steel would weigh more than that, I think the image of a 20'x3'x6' space filled with metal is probably erroneous.
You mean "awesome" frame and axles. Realistically there is no such a truck...the mining trucks if my memory serves me right are capable of hauling about 100 Tons (about 200 000+ pounds)at one time. OTOH you can not drive a truck this size on the open road, due to the sheer size of this monster (one wheel is 14 feet in diameter).
That was my first thought too. But bottom line is the guy turned down a fortune and reported it to the US military.