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The tanker is designed to be towed by a 5-ton, 6x6 truck tractor or similar vehicle equipped with a fifth wheel. The M970 can be loaded through the bottom or through the top fill openings. A ladder is provided at the front of the semitrailer for access to the top manhole, and a 4-cylinder diesel engine and pump assembly provides self load ...
Tiiger four-axle HMT module at Transporter Industry International headquarters in Haryana, India. A hydraulic modular trailer (HMT) is a special platform trailer unit which feature swing axles, hydraulic suspension, independently steerable axles, two or more axle rows, compatible to join two or more units longitudinally and laterally and uses power pack unit (PPU) to steer and adjust height. [1]
The first modular self-propelled trailers were built in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, heavy haulage company Mammoet [ 6 ] refined the concept into the form seen today. [ 7 ] They set the width of the modules at 2.44 m, so the modules would fit on an ISO container flatrack .
A Hayes-Anderson truck from 1933. The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer, [1] and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island, [1] as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd. [2] The company sold American-built trucks and truck parts for the first two years, then built their own trucks, because the trucks weren’t strong ...
Peterbilt 386 sleeper-cab–style commercial 6×4 tractor unit. A tractor unit, also known as a truck unit, lorry unit, power unit, prime mover, ten-wheeler, semi-tractor, semi-truck, semi-lorry, tractor cab, truck cab, lorry cab, big rig tractor, big rig truck or big rig lorry or simply a tractor, truck, lorry, semi, big rig or rig, is a characteristically heavy-duty towing engine that ...
One advantage of ballast tractors is that they are capable of double heading, where two tractor units are coupled to pull a hydraulic modular trailer. Tank recovery unit T3 including Dart truck tractor T13 and trailer T28. Other attempts have been made around 1942 with heavy-trucks, as known for the Dart T13 tank tractor.
Hayes WHDX 70-170 6×6 tractor. A ballast tractor is a specially weighted tractor unit of a heavy hauler combination. It is designed to utilize a drawbar to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large trailer loads which are loaded in a hydraulic modular trailer.
M819 Wrecker tractor truck. The M819 Medium wrecker tractor truck, with an extra long wheelbase, was a wrecker with a fifth wheel mounted behind the boom. This let the truck load and tow semi trailers. Meant for aircraft recovery, they had a smaller body and less equipment than the M816. All had a front winch, the fifth wheel replaced the rear ...