The Heavy Haulage Appreciation Thread

Original Poster

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Monday 22nd July 2013

Rushjob said:

A couple more shots of Leicester Heavy Haulage's X1LHH mentioned earlier in the thread.
These were taken after I escorted it back in to the yard from Immingham docks

I showed Paul these pics on Facebook last night. Some bit of kit that trailer, he uploaded a few shots of it loaded with an enormous prefab of some kind, looked immense! nuts

Saw a nice gaggle of H.C Wilson units out moving 4 enormous brewery vessels up the A1 earlier today. Some sight! biggrin

Got a winning shot of their newest wagon, European Dream (R620 Top), also. What a cracker! cool

kdri155

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Wednesday 24th July 2013

Took a quick photo of these three heavies from my back window,

Impressive machines when you don't see them too often

Rushjob

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Wednesday 24th July 2013

This was today's little job, just over 25m long and all up weight of just over 117 tonnes!

So if you came up behind a load & escort doing 21mph up the hills over the M62 towards Oldham this morning, I apologise.

Super Slo Mo

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Wednesday 24th July 2013

The old Volvo FL6's I used to get lumbered with would only just manage 22 mph up there when laden, and that was at a mere 18 tonnes too, so 21 is fairly impressive.

Rushjob

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Friday 26th July 2013

This one was a little bit of a challenge yesterday, having to thread our way with the load down country lanes in the Peak District, all 145 tonnes or so of it.

Luckily, pretty much everyone we met coming the other way was considerate and competent so it went like clockwork.

Edited by Rushjob on Friday 26th July 15:46

Hooli

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Sunday 28th July 2013

Is that to the cement works on the A6? just near Buxton. Looks like the bend with the entrance & car park to me.

Rushjob

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Sunday 28th July 2013

No, it's Longcliffe.

dudleybloke

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Thursday 15th August 2013

this was travelling down the bham new road (a4123) towards m5j2 at 17:10 this evening.

Original Poster

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Friday 16th August 2013

Interesting to see Allelys moving turbine parts, they move quite a few big train carriages about these days!...

Saw this being taken up the A1 on Monday afternoon. CAT 826H (IIRC) landfill compactor/bulldozer beast! -

s p a c e m a n

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Tuesday 27th August 2013

Original Poster

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Wednesday 11th September 2013

s p a c e m a n said:

That's a rig I would love to see. Seen several photos of JST FH units moving similar loads to that with the body of the machine positioned similarly on the trailer. Looks neat IMO!

Yet another wind farm is going up in my region and the smart fleet of Give Svaergods (Bill Livingstone Trans) can be seen moving the various parts along the A1 quite regularly at the moment cool

bob_g

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Thursday 19th September 2013

Just thought this may be of interest to some - the new Mercedes Arocs SLT on German TV:

http://www.trp1.de/aktuell/24_Achsen__340_Tonnen-1...

Original Poster

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Friday 20th September 2013

Nice!

Looks good that. Some load too!

Mercedes Trucks had a 6x4 heavy haulage spec Arocs tractor unit on display at Truckfest earlier in the year. Did look impressive I must say. Could easily see it suited to STGO work or pulling a big bulk ejector tipper or similar cool

Nickyboy

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Saturday 16th November 2013

Allelys moved a 600ton transformer out of Didcot Power Station last night. Thought i'd missed it but caught it as i drove home. Be rude not to stop and watch.

And a short vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqWoVeYtQXQ Watch at 4:55 the first pusher tractor gets lifted off the ground by the camber

The prime movers were a MAN V8 680bhp, MAN V10 660bhp, 2x DAF XF 510bhp

Edited by Nickyboy on Saturday 16th November 09:15

Edited by Nickyboy on Saturday 16th November 09:17

Super Slo Mo

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Saturday 16th November 2013

Ah, so that's what was causing the havoc on the M4 this morning. smile

Nickyboy

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Saturday 16th November 2013

Yep, 13 miles of traffic behind it by all accounts

badboyburt

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Sunday 17th November 2013

heard it struck a traffic like near wormley, locals thought the world had ended lol

Nickyboy

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Sunday 17th November 2013

Was nowhere near there, prob a local lol

badboyburt

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Sunday 17th November 2013

ill try and get the picture, it was def an Allelys convoy and the same load.

airbrakes

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