18 hours of travelling in one day just to drive a few trucks at Volvo's Gothenburg demo centre? You must be joking - except the trucks were the awesome ETT (One More Pile) Project timber truck, now rated at 100 tonnes GCW but running in trials with a mere 60 tonne payload, and the first real FH16 700s to appear in the flesh.
FH16 700 as it will probably be used (40t) .....
.... and as it was intended to be used (25.25m and 60t)
Now click through to see them in action
FH16 700 as it will probably be used (40t) .....
.... and as it was intended to be used (25.25m and 60t)
Now click through to see them in action
Read driving impressions in Commercial Motor on 19 March
According to the skogforsk website, this timber truck is rated at 90 tonnes. (thanks to google translate)
http://www.skogforsk.se/templates/sf_Normal____25316.aspx
There brochure does mention a other project, in which they run 74 tonnes trucks. A 8x6 truck loads the timber in the forest and an b-train takes the load to the factory.
http://www.skogforsk.se/upload/6079/ETT-broschyr.pdf
(it's in Swedish, but you can look at the pictures)
Some more pictures
http://www.skogforsk.se/templates/sf_Normal____25128.aspx
True, I'd also been led to believe it was 90t, but at Thursday's presentation, they revealed that it was actually 100t, although the trials will be at 90t.