Recently in Heavy Haulage Category

Now here's something you don't see everyday...a heavy haulage movement hauled by a Chinese heavy hauler. And for a pie who can tell me what the truck is. meanwhile Biglorryblog is most grateful to Jeff Lee at Tiandi Heavy Industries, the special types trailer maker, who has supplied the shots....now click through here for more (and as usual they are in 'Expando-Vision) 

Abnormal? I'm just glad it's gone by! Yes Dennis Child and his merry men from ROTRAN Multi-axle, the South Africa heavy haulage specialsists have been out having fun on the road again - in this case hauling a 325-ton transformer outside of Melmoth! And I've asked Dennis about the Magnum cab on the Tractomas so with a bit of luck he may be able to shed some light on the subject. Now click through here for more and all the pictures from Dennis are in 'Expando-Vision' click on them to see them BIGGER! However, you may need a wide-screen PC.

From Biglorryblog's resident heavy hitter hauler in South Africa...yes this comes from Dennis Child. "Yesterday 325-ton transformer departing Richards Bay." And it looks like it's got five Tractmoas 8x8s doing all the hard work--and click through here for one more...

Now that's what I call a TEST load! Thinking about it, we could have done with just a couple of those concrete blocks some time ago when Commercial Motor was commissioning its' new 40 and 44-tonne roadtest trailers from SDC and Hill Hire. Two of these would have done the job beautifully! But why is Biglorryblog showing you a trailer covered in concrete blocks? Well it's al to do with heavy haulage in China so click through here to see for yourself!  

It's all been kicking off in Richards Bay in South Africa! The port has seen the arrival of a whole herd of heavy hitters and naturally Biglorryblog's faithful reporter, the man with the camera Dennis Child, has been there to record the event...although he's got a bit of a vested interest in it too---but more of that in a minute...These two (I'd say Fauns) are destined for ALE LASTRA and appear to have gained a smart coat of paint----looks like they've kept their UK number plates though. Sorry Dennis I was probably asleep when you told me about them before (!) but am I right in assuming they've arrived from the UK to start work in SA---or were they there already? Now click through here for more!

Hello... What's this bloke doing? My Nova Scotian snowplough correspondent Mac Mackay proves definitively that he takes pictures from all over the place... He tells me: "Forida has a big demand for precast concrete beams for bridges and highway overpasses. Movement over highways seems to be organized by the truckers with a few guide cars... These good ole boys were moving out a series of beams in April 1998 in Tampa, Florida (sorry it was too hot for my anorak)..." And click through to see the whole thing...

Calling all Unipower fans..this should get the juices flowing. Steve Grainger says: " here are a couple of photos of the Econofreight Unipower/Scammell S24 6x6 'Hercules' This is the same vehicle which transported 'The Angel of the North' to its position overlooking the A1.The escorting police car is a Northumbria Police Ford Mondeo V6......

Hello.....what's this coming through the front door of the show-room? Could it be VANGUARD's new 8x8, "Fresh from Germany" Merecedes-Benz TITAN-converted Actros 600hp 4860 heavy hitting having it's very first trot out? And I have Dennis Child at ROTRAN in South Africa to thank for these shots...it sure is a beauty and click through here for more shots of it...

Peter Dekesel has fired this over to me on the usual biglorryblog@googlemail.com address and says: "Combine transport from Italy to the UK.with a combine from Massey Ferguson on the back.".

I see the photo competition entries on the website of the super specialist heavy haulage manufacturer Scheuerle http://www.scheuerle.com/ are slowly building up and there's some nice ones on it too including this one--and for a pie what's that on the back (and the front too)? And for a real werid waggon click through here.....

Dave has now joined the fun and to say: "Hi, I was riding my motorcycle by the electric company when I saw this truck carrying a huge transformer. Never seen one longer. Dave."

And what a strange-looking trailer - click through here for a close-up.

How about this for a real heavy hitter? In the words of the great Benny Hill "I Like 'em BIG!" (And for a pie what film does that come from?). I am grateful to Hobble Along Gary Richards who says: "Hi Brian, now you are all rested up, I just had to send you this collection of Lampson heavy haulers at work - to share some real big jiggers with the BLB fans of all things HUGE! And for monster movers old and new click through here NOW!

 Hope the bridge takes it skipper! Although saying that it obviously can---otherwise Dennis and his merry men from ROTRAN wouldn't be driving across it with a 325-ton transformer and 6000hp of go-power courtesy of five 8x8 Tractomas monster pullers and a 10x10 Tractomas pusher up the back! ()oh yeas, don't forget the ginormous beam trailer too). And anyway this happened yesterday so I guess we'd have heard if it didn't make it across!

Yes it's South African heavy-hitter time again on Biglorryblog and you can see that it probably wouldn't be a good idea to try and go in the opposite direction to Dennis's convoy on this particular corner! Now click through for more...

At first glance this Iveco might look like one of those Dutch-built Strators, but in actual fact what we have here is the real thing - a genuine Australian-built RHD, 550hp PowerStar.
This isn't the first time that this truck has appeared on BLB, because back in June we showed you it sitting outside Irish dealer Jennings Truck Centre.
Since then it has been purchased by Derbyshire-based Scotts Heavy Haulage (who know a thing or two about running decent kit), and is now working hard for a living.
Bryan Scott explains that he fell in love with the PowerStar when he saw one in New Zealand. He then spent a year striking a deal with Jennings, which had imported it with just 7000km on the clock.
Bryan is delighted with the truck, reckons it's better than any Scania T-Cab or Volvo VN, and say the driver thinks it's the 'Dog's b******s'.