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Volvo Trucks' Heavy Weight Challenge

Apr 13, 2016 VolvoTrucks, CrawlerGears, I-Shift, HeavyDuty, ConstructionVehicles


Last week we covered the story of the launch of I-Shift and Crawler Gears from Volvo Trucks, and now the truck maker has launched “Volvo Trucks vs 750 Tonnes” which should definitely inspire some Volvo Truck lust. 

The video features a Volvo FH16 with I-Shift transmission and crawler gears as it faces an extreme heavy haulage challenge. With the world’s strongest man, Magnus Samuelsson, and trucking journalist Brian Weatherley in the driver’s cab, the Volvo FH16 pulls 750 tonnes!

“I-Shift with crawler gears offers starting traction that is unlike anything else on the market for series-produced trucks. The new crawler ratios make it possible to haul really heavy loads, start off in difficult terrain, and drive at speeds as low as 0.5 km/h. Specially built trucks are normally used for exceptionally heavy loads, but here we’re using a Volvo FH16 with a driveline that has come straight from the factory,” says Peter Hardin, Product Manager FM and FMX at Volvo Trucks.


And just to make sure you can understand just how much 750 tonnes really is, they could also have pulled:
    •    57 Volvo FH16 trucks
    •    350 Volvo XC90 cars
    •    150 fully grown adult elephants
    •    4 Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets or
    •    Just over 4.5 wind turbines



Watch the video for yourself at at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UUz1zTZFfU




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