Tag: heavy haul: Page 5

Construction Equipment

Weight of crane shoves hauler into a jackknife that sends crane over a hillside

We’ve all been involved in tense situations. But few of us have ever been in this tense of situation. In the video below, we see a hauler bringing in a Link-Belt crane to a jobsite. Problem is there’s a pretty steep dirt slope between the hauler and said jobsite. As the driver starts carefully descending the […]

August 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Transformer and heavy hauler Optimus Prime invades Mid-American Trucking Show

[imagebrowser id=47] Our friends at sister site Overdrive are covering the big Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky this week and grabbed a bunch of photos of the Western Star 4900X. This is the truck that is starring as Optimus Prime in this summer’s next installment of the Transformers movie series. The custom truck was unveiled last […]

March 27, 2014

Construction Equipment

Fontaine’s Magnitude 60 Class trailers now features two-axle bogie, EQ2 spreader

The Magnitude 60 Class trailer from Fontaine Heavy-Haul, which handles 60 tons in 12 feet, now features a two-axle bogie and the company’s all-new EQ2 hydraulic spreader. Designed to be versatile and operator-friendly, the EQ2 tandem hydraulic spreader has a C-link mounting system that enables the spreader to convert from a 14-foot 7-inch to a […]

September 6, 2013

Roadbuilding

Kenworth launches T880 vocational truck

Kenworth launched its T880(TM) vocational truck at the annual Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville. The T880 will be available for production this summer. The T880 is for applications such as mixer and refuse, as well as dump and heavy haul applications over 100,000 pounds. It is part of Kenworth’s current vocational line-up, which includes the […]

March 22, 2013