Renze
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In Holland, a new trend is slowly getting liftoff: In search for more efficient means of transporting dirt, while maintaining the max legal width of which dumpers can be transported on a lowboy without special permits and guidance vehicles, a contractor in cooperation with the Volvo importer and a manufacturer of agricultural dumptrailers, have built a 5th wheel dumper on a Volvo A30 ADT with a payload of 60 ton, roughly double that of the standard A30. Volvo sells 5th wheel tractor variants of their ADT's for pipeline construction etcetera, but the idea to hook on a big dumptrailer is entirely Dutch.
Volvo A30F with BECO MAXXIM 600 trailer (payload 60T) (2) - YouTube
Because the trailer wheels are tall, they negotiate obstacles very good (angle of approach) and because they are standard section with, versus 65% section width on the ADT they allways ride in the track where the mud is already cleared by the ADT's wheels, so the trailer pulls light and the terraingoing ability is very good despite it being only 10x6
Not only this A30 combination (within legal transport width limits) is in use, but also a large cement quarry has bought an A40 based combination (which DOES need a transport permit and guidance vehicle when transported on the road) with a payload of 80 ton, to replace a rigid mine truck, because the articulated ADT combination is so much cheaper to buy because it uses a mass produced A40 base unit, and can drive on existing quarry roads.
Here a video of the new combination being tested at Kijlstra, a concrete prefab factory close to the Beco dumptrailer works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qZzeJEpFo
Volvo A30F with BECO MAXXIM 600 trailer (payload 60T) (2) - YouTube
Because the trailer wheels are tall, they negotiate obstacles very good (angle of approach) and because they are standard section with, versus 65% section width on the ADT they allways ride in the track where the mud is already cleared by the ADT's wheels, so the trailer pulls light and the terraingoing ability is very good despite it being only 10x6
Not only this A30 combination (within legal transport width limits) is in use, but also a large cement quarry has bought an A40 based combination (which DOES need a transport permit and guidance vehicle when transported on the road) with a payload of 80 ton, to replace a rigid mine truck, because the articulated ADT combination is so much cheaper to buy because it uses a mass produced A40 base unit, and can drive on existing quarry roads.
Here a video of the new combination being tested at Kijlstra, a concrete prefab factory close to the Beco dumptrailer works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qZzeJEpFo
