Hauling a bloomin' great beam through Holland with a 680hp MAN heavy hitter. Biglorryblog has the story!

| 1 Comment | No TrackBacks

Balken_20[1].jpg

That unrepentant website wanderer Martin' Keeper of the Flame' Phippard has fired this Teutonic Titan over to me and says: "Good Morning Brian, having heard that the Dutch outfit Westdijk BV have recently taken delivery of a new MAN TGX 680 8x4 heavy haulage tractor I thought I should pay their website a visit. And what a pleasure that was/is! Westdijk has a really superb picture gallery depicting all kinds of heavy hauls and showing off their DAF, MAN and Volvo tractor units along with their chunky Goldhofer modular trailers. So I thought I should share the bounty with BLB and its band of supporters. And with all due thanks and of course appropriate acknowledgment to Westdijk and to BLB I shall bid you 'adieu' Martin."

op_dolly_s_043[1].jpg

And if you've been wondering 'How on earth are they going to get a beam that long around a corner/' here's how...  with their very own neat rear streer dolly...now click through here for more...

op_dolly_s_065[1].jpg

Certainly an impressive rig...would this have come out of Munich or the OAF works in Vienna?

foto_s_westdijk,_IJsselbrug_003__800_x_600_[1].jpg

'680' must have the 16-litre V8 under the hood. Although it's the previous generation TGA cab by the looks of it...

foto_s_westdijk,_IJsselbrug_005__800_x_600_[1].jpg

Daf in the background too..

foto_s_westdijk,_IJsselbrug_009__800_x_600_[1].jpg

And here's a clear view of the modular trailer and dolly....great stuff Martin and thanks to Westdjik---a most impressive rig! 

 

No TrackBacks

TrackBack URL: http://www.roadtransport.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/62738

1 Comment

gyles Carpenter

sweet shots, many thanks for posting.

Leave a comment

What a user pic? Get a Gravatar!

Categories

Truck of the Year

truck-of-the-year-small.jpg

BigLorryBlog editor Brian Weatherley is the UK jury member for the International Truck of the Year award

OpenID accepted here Learn more about OpenID
Powered by Movable Type 4.25

Subscribe by E-mail

BLB Needs You!

Tags

About this Entry

This page contains a single entry by BigLorryBlog published on August 24, 2009 10:39 AM.

Top tractors and rigids from the Timaru Truck Show. Alex makes it big on Biglorryblog! was the previous entry in this blog.

Pete gets stuck into his tri-drive Atki model, says Biglorryblog... With a bit of help from the old 'Modeller's throat charmer'! is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.