Goldhofer has completed one of its biggest ever orders for heavy load transporters, delivering to US-based Lampson International a hydrostatically driven heavy-duty combination system with a capacity of up to 2,000t.
Delivery of the new Goldhofer trailers brings Lampson’s total transportation capacity to 5,000t.
The delivered trailer combination is based on a standard modular system with an axle load of 45t. The order, which Goldhofer says is worth about $2.6m, included the following components:
•24 axle lines of the type PST/H
•three engine modules (Power Packs) with an output of 430 hp each
•24 axle lines of the heavy duty range THP/H .
The trailers were delivered seven months after the order was placed.
Standard modular range THP/H Goldhofer trailers can carry 45t per axle line. Being ‘split trailers’ they can be divided longitudinally, enabling trailer combinations in 1.5 times widths, i.e. 5.7m.
Goldhofer CEO Stefan Fuchs claims that self-propelled heavy-duty modules have technological advantages that are gaining attention: ‘The self-propelled transporter with six axle lines and a power pack of 435hp, for example, develops a tractive force of 80t. On normal terrain, this unit replaces up to four heavy-duty tractors with a total weight of 40t each. That is how the combination gross weight can be reduced by 220t.’
Fuchs added that the compact gross combination length as well as better manoeuvrability are other important plus points, as sometimes the transport route must be abandoned because of a few centimetres. Fuchs claims: ‘The driving speed of a heavy load transporter is also no argument against the use of self-propelled vehicles. Actually, the average speed of heavy load transporters is between about 5km/h and 10km/h. A Goldhofer self-propelled transporter can drive at up to 15km/h and enables smooth driving through the hydrostatic drive.’
