New low-loaders go up to 1,000-tooners
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• by Bryan Jarvis Two specialist trailer manufacturers have been busy building new low-loaders; Market Harborough-based King Trailers is working on its latest 150-tonne models while Nooteboom of Holland is producing 1,000-tonners.
The Taylor Crane Company of Aberdeen has taken its largest heavy hauler to date in the form of a 150-tonne King GTL150 extending-bed lowloader with five power-steered axles.
The STGO Cat 3 model comes with interchangeable decks and can accommodate cranes up to 120 tonnes.
For extra wide plant like excavators and tracked machinery, the standard 2.9m-wide main deck and rear bridge is replaced by a 1.9m-wide spine deck. This carries the shoredup load so that with the neck attached the tracks overhang, which lowers the centre of gravity. The trailer is also compatible with decks longer than 7.92m.
Taylor has specified King's Hydroneck, optional spring assisted front ramps, tandemaxled jeep dolly and, for added manoeuvrability, there is remote control of the trailer's steering axles.
King's new trailer joins three recently purchased six-axied 80-tonne ballast trailers and a 100-tonne twin-spine extending low-loader.
Nooteboom's new Combi modular trailers, which use pendie axles, have a carrying capacity of up to 1,000 tonnes.
The Scheuerle Euro, Inter and Fiat Conti models all result from a recent alliance with Scheuerle of Germany which builds modular trailers for Ara heavy loads.
All three ranges can couple together lengthways and sideways and are fully interchangeable; the axles having 60° of steering for optimal manoeuvrability.
The Euro Combi can have two to six axles with standard widths of 2.5m and 2.74m and can haul 300 tonnes at 80km/h or 20 tonnes per axle at 5km/h . Each axle runs on four 285/70R 19.5in tyres; ride height is 1.26m and axle travel is 600mm (+/300mm).
The Inter has axle design loads of 36 tonnes at 1km/h and a 3.0m-wide platform; 1,000tonne loads can be shifted but it can also be used for 80km/h movements with a maximum 16 tonnes per axle line. Twin 215/65R 17.5s are used (eight on each axle line); platform ride height is 1.19m and axle travel is 650mm (+/-325mm).
The extra-low Flat pulls 200
300-tonne loads at 80km/h but the 3.0m-wide platform height is critical.
With a 23-tonne design load at tkm/h 700-tonne payloads can also be handed. Ride height is 1.02m with twin 205/65R 17.5 tyres (eight per axle line), The Inter and Flat Combis are available as self-driven platforms using a power pack.