What is the number of truck loads it would take to transport a building?

Nick

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The scenario goes like so, if you have a pickup truck and want to transport a building, how many truck loads would it take you to do so? The answer does not have to be exact. I am not sure what information you need to know about the building, but here is some the height of the building is 260 m (853 ft). The base of the building contains a total of 16,000 cu yd (12,000 m3) of concrete and roughly 300 mi (480 km) of steel rebar. The truck bed is 76'' long x 61'' wide x 21'' tall, and its payload (weight that it can hold inside the bed) capacity is 1360 lbs.

I think you have to calculate the mass of the building, then use the volume and payload of the truck to calculate how many loads. I am not sure how to tie it all together. The building I am talking about is the Transamerica Pyramid
 
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