Tag: heavy hauling

Construction Equipment

Manitou launches MHT 12330, its largest telehandler with 73,000-lb. lift capacity

Manitou has unveiled its largest telehandler – one of the largest on the market – with its new MHT 12330, which has a lift capacity of 72,750 pounds. That puts the telehandler at third-highest capacity in Equipment Word’s recently released 2019-2020 Spec Guide. Manitou designed the telehandler for moving industrial equipment in areas where cranes can’t go. […]

December 6, 2019

Class 7-8

SmartDrive 360 puts eyes in the back of truck drivers’ heads

Capturing video is a great tool for truckers who want to protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits, and for trucking companies that want to coach their drivers to improve safe driving skills. SmartDrive Systems has expanded on this idea, offering a video-based safety program that enables fleets to deploy up to four cameras on each truck […]

August 14, 2017

Class 7-8

Talbert’s 55-ton 55SA trailer retracts to eliminate need for permit

The 55SA-TELE extendable trailer from Talbert Manufacturing can haul everything from bridge beams to pressure vessels and then be retracted to eliminate the need for permits on return trips. The 55-ton trailer comes with a 90-inch swing radius that can be extended to 114 inches with a gooseneck extension. The trailer can be set up […]

May 30, 2017

Class 7-8

Electric hauler Nikola One’s huge range, high-tech comforts draw 7,000+ pre-orders

Still five months from the truck’s official debut, Nikola Motor Company founder and CEO Trevor Milton recently announced more than 7,000 reservations—each accompanied with a refundable $1,500 deposit—have been received for the company’s Nikola One electric Class 8 truck. “Our technology is 10-15 years ahead of any other OEM in fuel efficiencies, MPG and emissions,” Milton […]

June 16, 2016

Safety

Trailered backhoe overturns during haul, kills driver in California

A combination of unsafe driving and unpermitted heavy equipment hauling led to the death of a man near Sacramento, California, last month. According to The Sacramento Bee, Terry Cordell, of Newcastle, was driving along Highway 49 in a Ford F-350 hauling a trailered backhoe and traveling at an unsafe speed Feb. 18. The California Highway […]

March 23, 2016

Roadbuilding

Excavator collides with California overpass, debris causes wreck and lane closures (PHOTOS)

An excavator being transported by a truck trailer struck an overpass on a California highway last week, causing a traffic accident and lane closures. According to a report by Fox 5 TV, the truck was hauling the excavator along Route 163 in Kearny Mesa when it passed under the the Clairemont Mesa Boulevard overpass. Without […]

August 7, 2015

Construction Equipment

How to survive an earthquake while driving a big rig

When your peaceful drive gets interrupted by severe vibrations or worse, you could be driving through an earthquake. Especially, if you are in one of these top 10 most earthquake prone states. Truckers who’ve driven in one say at first it feels like something’s wrong with your truck. Once it’s over—well, it might not be really over. […]

May 15, 2015

Construction Equipment

PHOTOS: Directional drill dives from trailer, dangles over Dallas freeway

[imagebrowser id=132] Dallas-area law enforcement got some unwanted experience with uprighting an overturned directional drill Monday afternoon after one fell from a flatbed trailer and then dangled from the side of the side of an overpass. According to a report from the Dallas Morning-News, the drill overturned while being hauled over a ramp that links the […]

September 16, 2014

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

Massive steel beam falls off trailer, snatches semi truck onto its side

No. 6 Video in 2014 « NO. 7 NO. 5 »   It’s a very fortunate thing that the closest third party to this accident was the guy who filmed the whole thing and that he was behind the trailer rather than next to it. There’s no indication where this took place, but a semi […]

July 18, 2014