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Together, these were the U.S. Army's standard 4- to 5-ton, 4×4 tractor trucks, used for towing a variety of semi-trailers, like the 25-foot and 40-foot, 12 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton type C-2 flatbeds (for wrecking, moving aircraft, and general hauling), and the AAF type F-2 and F-2A fuel tankers. [33]
M15 semi-trailer, transporter, 40-ton, 8-wheel – M25 tank transporter (G160) M15A2 semi trailer, tank transport, 50-ton, 8-wheeled M16 clamshell bucket, for M2 crane (G201)
Later, B-double combinations came into use, often with one 6 m (20 ft) container on the B-link and a 12 m (40 ft) container (or two 6 m containers) on a semi-trailer bed. In allowing the longer truck combinations, what would take two 16.5 m (54 ft) semi-trailer trucks and one 18.75 m (62 ft) truck and trailer to haul on the continent now could ...
Their origins lay in utility trailers built in a similar fashion to horse-drawn wagons. A trailer park is an area where mobile homes are placed for habitation. In the United States trailers ranging in size from single-axle dollies to 6-axle, 13-foot-6-inch-high (4.1 m), 53-foot-long (16.2 m) semi-trailers are commonplace.
A Trailer-on-flat-car, or piggy-back car allows two 28.5-foot (8.69 m) trailer pups or one semi-trailer up to 57 feet (17.37 m) to be carried. Like well cars, these usually come in articulated sets of five or three. A longer TOFC (trailer on flat car) is usually an 89 ft (27.13 m) car.
The combination of a semi-trailer and a tractor truck is called a semi-trailer truck (also known simply as a "semi-trailer", "tractor trailer", or "semi" in the United States). [1] A large proportion of a semi-trailer's weight is supported by a tractor unit, or a detachable front-axle assembly known as a dolly, or the tail of another trailer ...
CPS Trailers were acquired by Manac in 2002. The brand name CPS Dump Trailer began in the 80s with the goal of helping the construction and agriculture industry with its need for specific semi-trailers. Manac uses its CPS brand in only the United States and produces its CPS units in its Oran, Missouri factory. CPS offers the following products: [4]
On 18 February 2006, an Australian built Mack truck with 113 [64] semi-trailers, 1,300 t (1,279 long tons; 1,433 short tons) and 1,474.3 metres (4,836 ft 11 in) long, pulled the load 100 metres (328 feet) to recapture the record for the longest road train (multiple loaded trailers) ever pulled with a single prime mover.