Trailer manufacturer Nooteboom offers a whole range of extendable flatbed semi-trailers, called OVB Teletrailers. The Van de Lagemaat hauling company showcased their 2020 Scania R500 6×2/4 tractor with a 2009 Nooteboom OVB-48-03(V), extended all the way to its maximum length of 36 meters (118’1”). Rumor has is that the driver has some Nordic walking poles at his disposal.
Here’s the rear flatbed unit, the flatbed at the front stayed with the Scania. Cornering such a super stretch limo would be sheer impossible without that counter-steering tridem (look at the position of the tractor’s four steering wheels).
The semi-trailer’s registered payload capacity is 35,220 kg/77,647 lbs, regardless its highly variable overall length (photo courtesy of Van de Lagemaat Everdingen).
The 500 hp Scania is a standard size, short wheelbase Euro cabover tractor. Convenient, when parallel parking.
Love it! Not only can you carry long loads, you can put a compartment at the rearmost section aa slowly move your mother-in-law a good distance away from you when traveling! And, brilliant engineering. Thanks for the presentation.
The range of purpose built trailers you have shown us over the years is remarkable.
That heavy haulage show, last October, was a treat. One of the best trucking events I ever visited.
Walking by and examining a 64 m (210′) long Nooteboom Super Wing Carrier is still on the bucket list, preferably with a wing aboard…
Trombone trailer we call em for really long loads the rear triaxle has a driver to steer them
Hydraulically forced turntable steering on Nooteboom’s extendable semi-trailers.
A good ol’ mechanical steering sytem (with rods or cables, guided by the tractor’s fifth wheel coupling) isn’t possible on these, for obvious reasons.
Teletrailer huh! Now I know the name for the tractor-trailers I saw a few years ago transporting multiple giant precast concrete bridge spans. Some of the tractors also appeared to use a unique split trailer setup. Those trailers had no center span connecting the front and rear but rather the wheel bogies (not sure if that’s the correct term) attached directly to the front and rear of the concrete span and used it for its support structure. Below is a picture of what I’m talking about. Sorry it’s not the best example as I don’t know the correct term.
Doh!
I forgot the attachment
That’s pretty much the equivalent of the Nooteboom four-axle OVB Teletrailer with its freight below (BTW, ‘teletrailer’ is just the name that Nooteboom gives to their whole series of extendable flatbed semi-trailers).
When those semi-trailers are fully retracted, you end up with a heavy-duty, yet normal looking and short flatbed semi-trailer.
Such a grand collection of very long dollies, like in your picture, is never used here in heavy haulage. That must have something to do with axle weight limits and ‘bridge formulas’. In short: in the US you’ll need much more axles, spread over a much longer distance, to carry the same weight.
Thanks Johannes.