Mucho axles, brute power, hefty. Heayy and special haulage combinations must be the most fascinating on-road big rigs, all over the world.
What we have here is a 2013 Scania R620 V8 10×4 tractor, towing a 2008 Nooteboom Euro-96-04(P) low-loader. Resting on the bed is a Caterpillar 336E-L tracked excavator. The Cat is specialized in serious demolition jobs, given its outfit. I’d say the whole ensemble, implements included, weighs around 85 metric tons (187,000 lbs).
In the states, that’s called a “low-boy” trailer, and there’s (Imperial!) tons of fascinating engineering that goes into designing them
It depends. The Nooteboom towed by the Scania is called a “dieplader” here, which means its wheels are behind (or ahead of) the bed, whereas the Nooteboom below is a “semi-dieplader”, with all wheels underneath the bed.
A semi-dieplader’s bed is not as low (diep/deep), hence the different names.
Big gear right there.
Great photo! It isn’t often, the bright yellow and black Caterpillar colour scheme gets upstaged, on a work site. But the dark chrome yellow and red on the tractor and trailer, is high visibility, and attractively quite graphic. Makes the Cat colours look subdued.
Thanks, it was a bit of a precision job to get the whole rig framed from the road where I walked. There was a trailer on the left and a container on the right, as you can see. The Scania/Nooteboom-couple was sitting right in the middle!