High Rises

 The previous posts featured trucks with low rise or mid-rise sleeper heights, which stands to reason with the type of trailers and cargoes they were carrying. Today however by chance I came across a number of trucks with high rise sleepers.

Despite the awkward location and terrible light conditions, I couldn't pass up this F'liner COE with high rise sleeper and drom box. AAA Provincial Moving Ltd of Edmonton, AB is running this rig which also features molded fender skirts and some shiny storage lockers.

Another white painted Freightliner showed up in my viewfinder.

CRE Transport of Terrebonne, QC runs this conventional high rise unit with a step deck trailer, likely here to pick up a container.

Also with a step deck trailer, this Kenworth has a nice two tone black and grey paint job. The cab has a 14-007 fleet number, for operator Diversco of Moncton, NB. The company provides propane tanks among its various lines of business.

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Trucks from all over

 The Port of Halifax attracts truck traffic of all sorts. There are containers, heavy and oversize loads and some of the trucks come from far away. In the last few weeks I've seen quite a variety, most with step deck trailers.

APT Transport Inc of Winnipeg has been advertising for owner operators, and this mid-rise International appears to be an O/O rig. The curtain in the windshield is a traditional decoration for trucks in India.

RRA Trucking of Surrey, BC, also with a step deck trailer had this basic white Freightliner and mid-rise sleeper.

GTI Group from Lachine, QC has a fleet of Peterbilts with a distinctive paint scheme.  Another step deck, but this one is carrying a well shrouded oversize object.

Gunson Trucking appears to be a one truck company based in the southwestern Ontario farming community of Tara. It runs this beefy Western Star, in Halifax to pick up a new Fendt 828 Vario farm tractor from Germany.

Speaking of Western Stars, Total Transport + Rigging / Mills Heavy Hauling of Halifax runs this veteran 'Star with drop axle.

It was down in the port to pick up a new 45 tonne capacity reach / stacker built by the Chinese company XCMG.

XCMG stands for Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group.

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Big Harvester

  A new harvester from the Belgian company Dewulf will soon be on the road behind a Kenworth from Express Mondor of Lanoraie, QC.

The big four row top lifting harvester is equipped with a discharge conveyor (in the up position near the back of the hopper). Express Mondor is in the heart of Quebec farm country, so the harvester could be  destined for work on any number of crops such as carrots or beets.

The interesting trailer has reflectors on the mud guards over each axle.

The beefy looking set-back axle KW has a mid-rise Aerodyne sleeper and is working with a two axle Temisko dolly. 

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More Oversize

 More oversize loads continue to arrive in Halifax by ship. They are usually on the road within a very few hours, so I probably miss most of them. However this evening I did catch a couple:

Riggers were still at work completing the chains to secure this unit from Superior Boiler. It will be hauled away by this colorful F'Liner from ASET (Alberta Specialize Equipment Transport) from Carstairs, AB.

Meanwhile:

A low rise Volvo from IMT International Machine Transport from Abbotsford, BC loaded this big crate. IMT specializes in aerospace component transport as well as oversize and heavy. The crate displays Rolls Royce markings and a weight of 34,150 kg.

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Moodie's ups the ante

 Moodie's Crane Rentals is one of the three main crane operators in Nova Scotia, along with Irving Equipment Ltd and A.W.Leil  Cranes and Equipment Ltd (a Seafort Capital partner company). Moddie's has offices in Halifax (Burnside) and Pictou. What may be its largest crane recently posed for a photo op on the waterfront.

It is a Grove ( by Manitowoc) GMK 5250L,  which is a 5 axle, 250 tonne capacity unit with a 110 ft reach. It is also equipped with a three axle dolly to comply with Nova Scotia road weight regulations.

Grove brochures show the boom nested over the cab (where the roof is depressed) however that would place too much weight on the axles so the dolly is used to distribute the load.

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Kenworth hauls a pig

 We don't see livestock hauled by truck very much in my area, so perhaps this load will be a close as I come. 

T-Lane Nation is an Edmonton, AB based carrier with offices across the country from Saint John, NB, to Mission, BC. This beefy Kenworth is typical of the trucks they run.

The KW is hauling a big Aspen trailer with dollies front and rear and the payload is a container carrying a pipeline inspection tool called a "pig". These torpedo like units can be equipped with cameras or x-ray devices to investigate and record the condition of some types of pipelines. The container presumably contains the pig and all the control equipment required to operate it.

Quest Integrity is an inspection company based in Seattle and is noted for pigging technology. The schematic on the door of the container implies they work world wide. It features a cutaway drawing of a pipe complete with pig.

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New Sandviks

 The Swedish conglomerate Sandvik is one of the world's largest manufacturers of mining machinery. Among their many lines are numerous trucks and loaders for use in underground mining. They are usually identifiable by their low profile, to fit the restricted overheads of mining tunnels. A trio of units arrived by ship in Halifax recently and have now been loaded on rail cars for delivery to end users.

Two of the units are TH545i articulated dump trucks. These rigs have a 45 tonne payload capacity in their 22 cubic meter dump box, and are powered by a 6 cylinder Volvo of 603 bhp.

The third unit is a Toro underground loader with a 17 tonne capacity.

It is available with buckets ranging in size from 7 to 9.1 cubic meters. There was no indication that I could see as to which this was. It is also powered with a Volvo engine, this one generating 310 kW.

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