Are 3 Petes enough?

What happens when you have to pick up a trailer in a low spot and the landing legs aren't long enough to get the tractor underneath?

I couldn't stick around long enough to see how they figured this one out, but there had to be a solution right?

Scotian Distribution Service is a logisitics / intermodal provider.

Autocars are hard to find

Still going through Autocar withdrawal, so anything that is an Autocar is worth a shot.

The Xpeditor model was really a White, built with Autocar badge, but it has survived like an Autocar.

Still running today.

Dear Sir .... your crane has arrived.

1. Crane control cab has been boxed in for shipment.

2. Truck cab end being prepared, and tarp covering opening where telescoping sections will be fitted.

Well most of your crane has arived anyway.

This Liebherr LT 1500-81, 500 ton truck crane arrived in Halifax by ship yesterday and was promptly loaded onto a rail car. Since all rail lines head west from Halifax, it is safe to say it is going in that direction. However Mammoet (also a heavy lift ship operator) has a large crane business in Canada, both in eastern Canada and the west.

The crane, less counterweight tips the scale at 96 tonnes. This is reduced considerably by shipping the telescopic boom section separately. When rigged with the boom alone it extends to 84m but with the lattice jib it will go to 145m with a 108m outreach.

The truck is capable of highways speeds and has its own 500 kW (670 bhp) engine and drives a 16 x 8 x 12 wheel arrangement.

For more on Leibherr see their website:

http://www.liebherr.com/AT/en-GB/default_at.wfw/measure-metric

then go to LTF truck mounted telescopic cranes for specs on the LT 1500-81 and an array of other models.

As you can see Mammoet also has a web site: http://www.mammoet.com/ Look for their Canada East and Canada West sections.

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GK Services

GK Services runs this delivery van built on an International Workhorse strip chassis. No idea who the van builder is - they are too modest to display their name.

Sharp trucks

1. Mills Heavy Hauling had this sharp Western Star on the waterfront this morning to pick up a float trailer. This truck has appeared on Truckfax before, but from the passenger side.

2. G.K.Morse & Sons Trucking Ltd of Centreville, NS, has always operated good looking trucks. This Freightliner is no exception, especially when it has the very sharp aluminum B-train trailer.

These large steel rings, used in windmill manufacturing, are a regular cargo arriving through the port of Halifax, and are usually carried on single trailers.

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More Movers

1. Head to head movers.

2. Freightliner's extended cab (with Babcock body.)

3. International's version (with US Body Co van- a former US truck.)

How to cram several beefy movers into a truck cab? The short extended cab (as opposed to the longer four door crew cab) allows for half a dozen lumpers - packed in, sardine fashion - but doesn't take too much away from payload space.

These are definitely not intended for long distance transportation of people, but they do the job around town and for short moves.

Freightliner and Navistar International seem to have a pretty good lock on these factory extended cabs, as I could see this morning. And of course the cargo box builders can configure a van body around any size or shape of cab to squeeze the maximum cube onto the wheelbase.

AMJ Campbell is a very large Canadian moving outfit, and Premier Executive Suites / Premiere Van Lines was founded by one of Campbell's owners.

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More Mining Trams [updated]

1. Atlas Copco 5020 [added 2011-03-12]

It was also mining tram day at Fairview this morning. Two competing brands of underground mining trucks were lined up in the parking lot.

2. A pair of these Sandvik 30SX (30 metric tonne) trucks showed up on Atlantic Tiltload trailers. These did not look like new trucks, but they did appear to be in good shape. My guess is they are outbound vehicles, heading overseas.

3. A mighty Atlas Copco 5020 (50 tonne) articulated, all wheel drive tram. This is an inbound unit. No sign of its low profile dump box however, so perhaps it had already left. No tractor on this trailer, so destination is unknown.

I recently uploaded another Atlas Copco unit, see:

http://truckfax.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-28T10%3A55%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=7

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