Coming from the oversize transport business myself here in Germany, Matthias Kirschner (the guy that was riding on the back of the dolly steering it) is an institution when it comes to experience and knowledge. Had the pleasure to meet him a couple years ago when I started working in this industry, he gave some advice I still recall back to quite often today. A living legend!
When we talk about 30 kilometers distance we are not talking about 4 lane streets and super wide highways... Most roads in Germany are very narrow with sharp turns and small intersections. Not to mention that Germany can be very mountainous.
That's an impressive truck.. 500 tons = - 1x the largest Obelisk in the world (Lateran Obelisk in Rome) - OR 2x Statue of Liberty - OR 3x Blue whale On a single truck...?! damn, gotta respect German engineering.
Actually Gross Vehicle Weight is 80K# only. In Germany the limit is what only 40 ton, in Holland 50 Ton, Finland is the most relaxed, as soon as @AngelicaLarsson reached the Swedish/Finnish border with an escavator, or dumptruck on her tail, her Pilot gets to turnaround. 70 ton GVW and larger sizes before it becomes oversize.
@@perpetual4958 Sweden and Finland has similar weight restrictions on roads. Max GVW in Sweden is 74 tons (BK4) on a few select highways and main roads, but roughly 90% of the road netweork has a limit of 64 tons (BK1). BK4 has the same weight limits for axles and axle groups as BK1 has, though. To haul more you need a kind of permit by the county/ies or municipality/ies you are going to pass through, exit or enter that excepts you from those rules. If you're hauling oversize you may also need a permit if you need to take down signs or the like. To find the correct route to avoid low bridges or tunnles is your own or the transport planner's/dispatcher's responsibility.
All MAN Trucks are produced on demand with the specs of the customer. Special equipment gets added by companies specialized on the equipment ordered. The basic Truck takes 6-9 months until delivery, but the upgrades may take even more time.
Here in New Zealand, we build our houses from timber, and they are often transported over long distances from one location to another. The local public broadcaster(TVNZ) had a series showing the process of preparation, transport and renovation - including one that was put on a vehicle ferry to an offshore island, and another that was moved over 600 kms. They are not “Heavy” but very large and awkwardly sized, but can be tilted and raised with millimeter precision
More interesting are the SPMTs (Self-Propelled Modular Transporters). These can move heavy loads without tractors. The term SPMT was first used in the 1970s by Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik from Pfedelbach, which also developed the first self-propelled modular heavy-duty vehicle. Since then, SPMT has been the general term for self-propelled modular vehicles.
9:25 There was an accident a few years ago near my hometown where a very low-slung heavy transport got "beached" on a level crossing that wasn't included in the calculations properly, and it got hit by a train. Nobody died, but only because the driver jumped out of his truck right before the train hit the vehicle. On a milder note, last year a transport like the one in the video fell over (and destroyed the cargo) because it had to go around a slightly banked corner and someone mis-steered the trailer. There was a camera crew there, it's kinda funny to be honest. Like veeeeery slowly just keels over.
@@teamidris I know about Hixon (I got a little blog on rail accidents), the one I referred to was Alt-Duvenstedt in Germany, the truck carried a ram for a construction side. Train didn't derail and nobody died.
I always enjoy driving in Germany. One minute you're going a casual 100 mph on the autobahn, the next your staying behind a massive truck trying to figure out what that massive machine is he's hauling. Beautiful country, nice people, top tier engineers.
If you're interested. This part was going to the LyondellBasell plant in Münchsmünster.It was part of a gas scrubbing systems to purify process-based waste gases and/or pollutants subject to odor complaints and release them in accordance with environmental legislation. I used to do the production planning for this company and its predecessors' European sites , producing Cataloy, PP and PE -> plastic granulates. It's a company most people havent heard of, but everyone, yes everyone!!! on this planet comes in contact with their products daily, they'r massive!!! Btw, that ride is actually only 17 or 18km and takes normally 15 min. ... that is if you're not dragging a 50m long ding dong along 😂. ... sorry somehow it had to rhyme 🤣. Take Care 🤘❤️
MAN builds motors for ships, the really large ones. The machine has a load of ballast to have full traction, probably something like 30 to 40 tonnes, cast iron plates or something like that. The secrets to all of these transports lies in very good preparation and to go slowly at all times. I does not matter if it takes two hours longer, it is more important that the stuff gets no damage and arrives safely.
The MAN factory in Augsburg is nowhere near the Autobahn, so getting those big diesel ship engines to the Autobahn is quite a logistical challenge given Augsburg is a very old city with narrow streets and trams powered by current collectors that had to be shut off or temporarily removed. I didn't mind if that happened, getting a glimpse on those huge engines (iirc, those can be up to ~100,000 HP? ).
@@Kilian600 Not MTU , The Largest is MAN Wärtsilä and this is only The Finish bought the Swiss company Sulzer , Wärtsila don't even know how to build them they don't have the facilities in Finland.
BTW: 500 Ton kilogram is 1,100,000 US LBS. The most common US semi truck is allowed to tow 80,000 LBS. These wide and heavy loads are usually shipped as close to the final destination by other means like a ship or train and then driven for the final miles, in this case less than 20 miles, by truck.
That company is from my region, just across river Rhine from my place. From first hand experience I can tell you that this machine is impressive in the street. I had it behind me on the Autobahn on my way to Bonn a few weeks ago. A seriously stonking bugger!
Is it still Dutch? The owner sold up and bought a loss-leading Football Club;-). It is known for using the all wheel steered and driven (hydraulics) platforms and the heavy duty cranes.
I drive at work. A prefab concrete factory. With an electric Linde forklift truck 3 t. We use these more, to pull trailers. Up to 25 tons. It's not my day job. But when it gets tough and big. Then I am always the...... Greetings from Spakenburg, the Netherlands.
Under the tarpaulin on the back of the tractor is a massive weight, concrete or scrap steel plates, to enable the wheels to have better traction on the road. These kind of transport were a common sight in my neighbourhood in the 70s and 80s, when a couple of new chemical plants were built, I always went out to follow these, it always was an imposing sight. Usually these would run during the night hours to have minimal disruption on other traffic.
I had the opportunity to ride in a racing MAN truck 1200 HP. I've never been more scared for my life. 9 tons of asphalt hating machine, forget Hellcats, Corvettes and the likes, this thing did 0-60 better than some cars and cornered like a demon.
Fernfahrer - Long-distance lorry driver. For me is such truck normal, because in our city we have the harbour, and here comes many such trucks with different vehicles. Sometimes it is large machines from Siemens, or agricultural machinery from various German and European manufacturers that are shipped all over the world, mobile cranes or even large crawler feet for the huge crawler cranes from Liebherr.
6:55 Worth noting: Most "patrol cars" like the one you see there in Germany are "run of the mill" production cars. They get leased in fleets, and manufacturers offer "police packages" with stuff like drawers in the trunk, the wiring for radio and lights, and that sort of thing. The police districts have them fitted with the equipment, have the wrap/lettering added, and then they enter service. After 2-3 years the "police stuff" is removed and the cars go back to the manufacturer/are sold off. Specialized police cars like the US has are RARE here, and mostly limited to specialized tasks like special forces or VIP protection. As a side effect, forking through some normal cars' onboard computers will get you things like a warning for when the MP5-locker in the trunk is unlocked. Of course only police cars have that locker, but the programming is in each car of the type.
Well usually they get special suspension upgrades, on a large part of the fleet. And some Dutch cops got upset they glued the paddles on the new Mercedes ordered. That had undercarriage upgrades.
@@perpetual4958 I've never come across a German patrol car with special suspension that you couldn't spec as a random customer. Only notable difference is that police-Volkswagens didn't have to do the software update to get rid of the dieselgate-stuff.
M A N are the best trucks there’s a reason why there used by the military and special movement companies. The V8 that goes in boats are just on a another level and the MAN B&W 12S90ME-C Mark 9.2 type diesel engine set the world record in October of 2014 for the largest engine ever built.
@@alanmay7929 lmfao Scania is being owned by VW just like MAN Have you ever seen the size of an engine from a cargo ship? Volvo doesnt make those. lmfao
The " Strongest " they are talk of there is Not Horsepower . They are talking about the Chassis Rating . And yeah , 500 tonne SINGLE rating is truly Outrageous .
Did you use to ride with @IwonaBlecharczyk, that ran those blades for a few years? Slightly shorter ones though, Total vehicle length was 74.8 meters if I remember correctly. Plenty of all night video's on her channel.
Large hauls are always on our roads. You see them all the times... some pretty weird looking, like some kind of reactor out of an old timey SciFi show. :))
if you look at a MAN truck, you can still see the Büssing in it, the Lion in at the hood is still a insignia from Büssing, the Lion of Braunschweig... funny fact, the Duke of Braunschweig founded München/Munich, the only reason they have the Lion, too!
I don't know why, but when I look at the machine, the word that always comes to mind first is "dense"; it looks like an English Bulldog.. it looks as if a redwood could fall on this thing and the tree would be split in half aft that.. 😁
Crazy, the Baumann company, who owns this truck, resides just down my street and I had absolutely no idea about that gem they have. So thank you for posting this video and “Alaaf” from Bornheim, Germany. sure I will stop by there tomorrow.
I think it's really funny how you celebrate our trucks ^^ For me, as a German, the truck in the video is unusual, but otherwise quite normal ^^ I think the American trucks are really awesome when it comes to space
As far as I know, MAN didn't build this truck directly itself, but the truck came off the assembly line as a normal truck and was converted by a special company to what it is ^^
Sometimes more interesting than the Truck is the load. Many times with these Oversized loads I wonder what that actually is. And in Germany: How do they plan the routes. In such dense areas you have to plan such a load quite carefully to avoid any issues. "Imagine someone messes up or doesn't take it seriously." - In that case - I have to laugh - someone would probably loose his job. There is literally no space for errors, whatsoever. Maybe someone can post a vodeo on how these trips are planned to avoid issues. That would be interesting too.
saw a heavy transport once that had to reverse 6 km. one of the bridges they had planned to cross was rated for the weight but they had not measured the railing height correct so it could not cross. bet it was not fun reversing a thing you cant see around.
the roads and bridges are measured in advance for the heavy loads. Road closures often take months of planning and approval. A problem is often the load capacity of bridges. Heavy transport often has to take long detours to avoid a single dilapidated bridge or to avoid a single tight bend. A problem in my area is the over 50-year-old Autobahn, which has been occupied with construction sites for decades to come. This cannot be used and the heavy transport has to take the other roads. In my area, heavy transport takes place regularly, always at night or on weekends when traffic is light
This whole combination had been built by Toni Maurer and he used the MAN as basic components. Look at the Mercedes Benz Actros and the Merceds Arocs heavy howling machines. Beautie beasts. ;-) Sorry i must add this. Worked 44 years for MB. But MAN has wonderfull Trucks, Ship engines and is building parts for Ariane Space ships. MAN built the first ever diesel engine.
The roundabout was a problem because it was a left turn. Very few places in the US where you can do an unproblematic 90 degree left turn with a 164 foot piece of equipment.
Here in Switzerland there are dedicated routes for heavy traffic between industrial centers. Near where I live, there's a roundabout that's basically only half a roundabout, somewhere else there's one that has two half moons and the middle is a clear cut, normally blocked with flower pots. Obstructive ornaments on roundabouts can be dismantled easily, just like all road signs along those special routes.
In case you wonder what the truck is transporting: that is a tower to REFINE OIL ... which is done by "fraktionierte destillation". - heat up oil - everything evaporates and starts going up the tower - this cools down the gaseous oil according to their evaporation temperature ... which is low for short carbohydrate chains and high for longer chains You obviously need to make sure NO OXYGEN ENTERS THIS TOWER ... which is why the welding needs to be extremely precise.
Some trivia... MAN comes from Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg. Meaning machine making factory of Augsburg and Nuremberg. (Yes. That one with the courts...) The company was founded in 1758. (Yes. Seventeen-Fiftyeight.) It now belongs to Traton SE. Traton SE is a subsidiary of Volkswagen. (Yes. That Volkswagen which also owns Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini, etc.)
If you think these are big you should take a look at the trucks used in the mining industry. Some of these could fit several of these in there dump bed.
I was 1 time hitting a Transport a bit smaller but about 100 tones and coming from work at 10 pm at night seeing in my rear the German blue lights thinking it is a medical Transport (emergency vehicle or fire department) im going right in a bus stop and then noticed the first police car that is clearing and warning the traffic going the over direction. The showing me with hazard lights to follow and the line later for me to take the Ausfahrt (exit). I'm giving a thanks with my hazards and got them with the same back. In Germany a thank you with hazard lights is really normal or u flush light we call it Lichthupe (translates into Light Horn)for the one in front or to show a trucker u let him in your line. In the us i know that isn't really normal and can confusing the driver.
There is two Scandinavian speciall trucks videos in a series on RUclips that is actually.quite good where the show 5 specialty trucks in each video. Have a ginormous swedish lumber truck that moves 250 tons
The way i understand the model name of the truck, 640 may be the horse powers of the engine. Not the most powerful in that sense, but obviously not where the finesse is.
Be aware that the 30-50 km distance is most likely the last leg of transoprt (the pressure vessel could have been also transported by barge down river beforehand), or the producer of the PV was conveniently located nearby because there could be several chemical plants in a certain radius so they built their plant in a strategic location to supply as many plants as possible with as little dificulty as possible. (The roads in the area could have been designed for ease of transport of super large objects if the chemical plants existed for more than 70 years in the area. Where I live we had a slightly smaller (than the depicted PV) chemical reactor that was transported over 150km down river, loaded on a ship and transported to Nigeria.
500 ww2 Willys MB jeeps = 503 kg so its a LOT of weight the distance of 30 km(18,6 miles) in germany is long as germany has generaly a denser population so the likelyhood to transport stuff like this over Highways is low (try to drive that cilinder throug a village)
That is not the stongest truck in germany. MAN belongs to VW. They tell a lot crap. Volvo has the FH 16 with 750 Hp. Everyone can buy it. And Volvo has a Crawler Gearbox and a 8x6 Chassis, that can do the same and more, but they don't have to talk about it. This here is just stupid talking.
in the future they might be hybrids with pure electric drive trains and a diesel range extender. for these type of transport, you don't need a fast truck that goes a long range without a break. and you don't need 600hp all the time. for low speed you can use in-wheel electric hub motors. 100hp per wheel is very easy to do. and you save weight because you don't need any differential gear, or an 8-step gear or something like that. the range extender could be a very simple but efficient 2 liter 2 cylinder boxer style engine connected to an electric generator with 100hp. because of the symmetric nature there is no movement of the engine outside. and if the exhaust system is tuned to a specific constant rpm, you can make it dead silent.
I am surprised that you haven’t discovered yet Jean Claude Van Damme‘s „Epic Split“ on a (or two) Volvo. It’s hilarious. Or is it because of copyright?
The fahrer/driver part you spelled right but fern is spelled allmost like fair with an N added to the end . Fern means long distance or far away but basicly the whole word is just translated to trucker. In english one word can stand for a couple of meanings in german we have a lot of words for the same meaning. Yeah we are weird people.
I believe we are a bit lucky in Germany as we can move many of those heavy weights over rivers and channels. This ensured the last mile(s) is not so long. Maybe some of our German Heavy load guys can tell us what was the longes travel on road for you? I have seen some documetary about these transports and i believe it was never over 150 km ( 95 miles) or or mostly even less.
Most powerful in terms of maximum load. 500 tons solo + 750 tons with two machines and 1002 tons with four, is the most extreme registered in Germany right now. They say this in the video for you. Did you guys skip it?
@@salvador_mano4x4 The heaviest registered in Germany doen't mean the heaviest all over the world. Just in Germany only. And this information is correct. So surely there might be more powerful machines outside of Germany in existence. Yes, there might be a more powerful one even in France (or made by a French company for Africa).
Just fyi, for decades the Ariane-rocket-startplattform got pulled by a MAN-truck capable to pull up to 1200tons, meanwhile it got replaced by a Titan-truck, also a german manufacturer, which pulls up to 1900 tons with its 540hp. But tbh those machines can't be exactly compared to the one in your video as they are purpose build for this one job.
Competition for this MAN TGX are the (coincidently also) MAN trucks ESA is using to transport the Ariane 5 including the launch pad from the assembly hall to the launch site. The launch pad weighs 750 tons and an Ariane 5 weighs 780. The specialy manufactured MAN trucks can pull/push up to 1850 tons. Seeing that looks comical. One tiny truck pulling that huge ass launch pad with the rocket. Edit: spelling
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I like how Euro Trucks don't look "scary" but are real beast on the road.
That's the sleeper spirit somehow. We are good at this 😂
Yeah the mastered the "Wolf in sheep's clothing" doctrine a few years ago.
Yeah they are sheep in wolf clothing. The US ones seem to be more show and ponies.
@@silentios7336 I could it not say better.
@@asokawhite is EU regulations that made it look that way. was not a designers/engineers choice.
Coming from the oversize transport business myself here in Germany, Matthias Kirschner (the guy that was riding on the back of the dolly steering it) is an institution when it comes to experience and knowledge. Had the pleasure to meet him a couple years ago when I started working in this industry, he gave some advice I still recall back to quite often today. A living legend!
For the US viewers: Please bear in mind that the US (short) ton is only 907 kgs, compared to 1000 kgs = 1 metric ton.
or better, 200tons are about 440925 lb :D
When we talk about 30 kilometers distance we are not talking about 4 lane streets and super wide highways... Most roads in Germany are very narrow with sharp turns and small intersections. Not to mention that Germany can be very mountainous.
Yep, I’ve directed traffic so we could go round a traffic island the wrong way. Not like now with high viz, just me in overalls :D
That's an impressive truck.. 500 tons =
- 1x the largest Obelisk in the world (Lateran Obelisk in Rome)
- OR 2x Statue of Liberty
- OR 3x Blue whale
On a single truck...?! damn, gotta respect German engineering.
with the obelisk, you still have room for 87 tons to spare...
its not the Europe Tons (the truck can 1002 Tons (Mercedes have that to)
Or a snack for Ricarda Lang as wide.
BTW: 500 Ton kilogram is 1,100,000 US LBS. The most common US semi truck is allowed to tow 80,000 LBS.
Actually Gross Vehicle Weight is 80K# only. In Germany the limit is what only 40 ton, in Holland 50 Ton, Finland is the most relaxed, as soon as @AngelicaLarsson reached the Swedish/Finnish border with an escavator, or dumptruck on her tail, her Pilot gets to turnaround. 70 ton GVW and larger sizes before it becomes oversize.
@@perpetual4958 Sweden and Finland has similar weight restrictions on roads. Max GVW in Sweden is 74 tons (BK4) on a few select highways and main roads, but roughly 90% of the road netweork has a limit of 64 tons (BK1). BK4 has the same weight limits for axles and axle groups as BK1 has, though. To haul more you need a kind of permit by the county/ies or municipality/ies you are going to pass through, exit or enter that excepts you from those rules. If you're hauling oversize you may also need a permit if you need to take down signs or the like. To find the correct route to avoid low bridges or tunnles is your own or the transport planner's/dispatcher's responsibility.
All MAN Trucks are produced on demand with the specs of the customer. Special equipment gets added by companies specialized on the equipment ordered. The basic Truck takes 6-9 months until delivery, but the upgrades may take even more time.
Here in New Zealand, we build our houses from timber, and they are often transported over long distances from one location to another. The local public broadcaster(TVNZ) had a series showing the process of preparation, transport and renovation - including one that was put on a vehicle ferry to an offshore island, and another that was moved over 600 kms.
They are not “Heavy” but very large and awkwardly sized, but can be tilted and raised with millimeter precision
You NZers have a great trucking scene and it's criminally under recognised.
Better than Australia's primitive scene.
German lesson of the day: Fernfahrer literally means Far Driver, resp. Long Distance Trucker. ;)
More interesting are the SPMTs (Self-Propelled Modular Transporters). These can move heavy loads without tractors. The term SPMT was first used in the 1970s by Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik from Pfedelbach, which also developed the first self-propelled modular heavy-duty vehicle. Since then, SPMT has been the general term for self-propelled modular vehicles.
My father is driving an MAN TGX 470 and with 41 tons he drove a little steep hill with 70km/h up the hill
9:25
There was an accident a few years ago near my hometown where a very low-slung heavy transport got "beached" on a level crossing that wasn't included in the calculations properly, and it got hit by a train.
Nobody died, but only because the driver jumped out of his truck right before the train hit the vehicle.
On a milder note, last year a transport like the one in the video fell over (and destroyed the cargo) because it had to go around a slightly banked corner and someone mis-steered the trailer. There was a camera crew there, it's kinda funny to be honest. Like veeeeery slowly just keels over.
Hixon was the one by us. A train hit a transformer. Absolute disaster.
@@teamidris I know about Hixon (I got a little blog on rail accidents), the one I referred to was Alt-Duvenstedt in Germany, the truck carried a ram for a construction side. Train didn't derail and nobody died.
I always enjoy driving in Germany. One minute you're going a casual 100 mph on the autobahn, the next your staying behind a massive truck trying to figure out what that massive machine is he's hauling. Beautiful country, nice people, top tier engineers.
Thx greets from Germany lake of Constance
well, with 100 mp u are about double as fast, as an truck in germany :D
If you're interested. This part was going to the LyondellBasell plant in Münchsmünster.It was part of a gas scrubbing systems to purify process-based waste gases and/or pollutants subject to odor complaints and release them in accordance with environmental legislation. I used to do the production planning for this company and its predecessors' European sites , producing Cataloy, PP and PE -> plastic granulates. It's a company most people havent heard of, but everyone, yes everyone!!! on this planet comes in contact with their products daily, they'r massive!!!
Btw, that ride is actually only 17 or 18km and takes normally 15 min. ... that is if you're not dragging a 50m long ding dong along 😂. ... sorry somehow it had to rhyme 🤣. Take Care 🤘❤️
I am sure there were some compulsory detours to allow it through.
Su on the numberplate..stands for Siegburg near Cologne ❤...my hometown...😊
MAN builds motors for ships, the really large ones. The machine has a load of ballast to have full traction, probably something like 30 to 40 tonnes, cast iron plates or something like that. The secrets to all of these transports lies in very good preparation and to go slowly at all times. I does not matter if it takes two hours longer, it is more important that the stuff gets no damage and arrives safely.
The largest motors for ships comes from Wärtsilä, Finland or MTU Friedrichshafen, Germany.
The MAN factory in Augsburg is nowhere near the Autobahn, so getting those big diesel ship engines to the Autobahn is quite a logistical challenge given Augsburg is a very old city with narrow streets and trams powered by current collectors that had to be shut off or temporarily removed. I didn't mind if that happened, getting a glimpse on those huge engines (iirc, those can be up to ~100,000 HP? ).
@@Kilian600 Not MTU , The Largest is MAN Wärtsilä and this is only The Finish bought the Swiss company Sulzer , Wärtsila don't even know how to build them they don't have the facilities in Finland.
BTW: 500 Ton kilogram is 1,100,000 US LBS. The most common US semi truck is allowed to tow 80,000 LBS.
These wide and heavy loads are usually shipped as close to the final destination by other means like a ship or train and then driven for the final miles, in this case less than 20 miles, by truck.
I saw that transport live , it started in my hometown Abensberg !!!
That company is from my region, just across river Rhine from my place. From first hand experience I can tell you that this machine is impressive in the street. I had it behind me on the Autobahn on my way to Bonn a few weeks ago. A seriously stonking bugger!
Logistics is such an interesting and wide field. Always new problems to be solved.
There is a Dutch company that goes even more extreme in transport. The name is mammoet, they can lift and transport everything.
Is it still Dutch? The owner sold up and bought a loss-leading Football Club;-). It is known for using the all wheel steered and driven (hydraulics) platforms and the heavy duty cranes.
I drive at work. A prefab concrete factory. With an electric Linde forklift truck 3 t. We use these more, to pull trailers. Up to 25 tons. It's not my day job. But when it gets tough and big. Then I am always the...... Greetings from Spakenburg, the Netherlands.
Under the tarpaulin on the back of the tractor is a massive weight, concrete or scrap steel plates, to enable the wheels to have better traction on the road.
These kind of transport were a common sight in my neighbourhood in the 70s and 80s, when a couple of new chemical plants were built, I always went out to follow these, it always was an imposing sight.
Usually these would run during the night hours to have minimal disruption on other traffic.
I had the opportunity to ride in a racing MAN truck 1200 HP. I've never been more scared for my life. 9 tons of asphalt hating machine, forget Hellcats, Corvettes and the likes, this thing did 0-60 better than some cars and cornered like a demon.
Fernfahrer - Long-distance lorry driver.
For me is such truck normal, because in our city we have the harbour, and here comes many such trucks with different vehicles. Sometimes it is large machines from Siemens, or agricultural machinery from various German and European manufacturers that are shipped all over the world, mobile cranes or even large crawler feet for the huge crawler cranes from Liebherr.
6:55
Worth noting: Most "patrol cars" like the one you see there in Germany are "run of the mill" production cars. They get leased in fleets, and manufacturers offer "police packages" with stuff like drawers in the trunk, the wiring for radio and lights, and that sort of thing. The police districts have them fitted with the equipment, have the wrap/lettering added, and then they enter service. After 2-3 years the "police stuff" is removed and the cars go back to the manufacturer/are sold off. Specialized police cars like the US has are RARE here, and mostly limited to specialized tasks like special forces or VIP protection.
As a side effect, forking through some normal cars' onboard computers will get you things like a warning for when the MP5-locker in the trunk is unlocked. Of course only police cars have that locker, but the programming is in each car of the type.
Well usually they get special suspension upgrades, on a large part of the fleet. And some Dutch cops got upset they glued the paddles on the new Mercedes ordered. That had undercarriage upgrades.
@@perpetual4958 I've never come across a German patrol car with special suspension that you couldn't spec as a random customer. Only notable difference is that police-Volkswagens didn't have to do the software update to get rid of the dieselgate-stuff.
M A N are the best trucks there’s a reason why there used by the military and special movement companies. The V8 that goes in boats are just on a another level and the MAN B&W 12S90ME-C Mark 9.2 type diesel engine set the world record in October of 2014 for the largest engine ever built.
Lol!!!! So is Scania, Volvo..... Which actually have more powerful engines from factory for also very specific applications too.
@@alanmay7929 lmfao Scania is being owned by VW just like MAN
Have you ever seen the size of an engine from a cargo ship? Volvo doesnt make those. lmfao
If Iron Man was a truck, this is it! 💪😂🍻
Hope there's gonna be some content from Goodwood next week ;) i think they are my favourite of yours. And the variety this year should be crazy.
Imagine doing Traktor pulling with this beast 😂😂😂
I think it would pull the wait wagon right out of the stadium 😂😂😂
This thing has to be in a truck museum, if a new and better one comes out.
The " Strongest " they are talk of there is Not Horsepower . They are talking about the Chassis Rating .
And yeah , 500 tonne SINGLE rating is truly Outrageous .
I'm at a construction site now for windmills and the blades delivered is 83.5 meters / 274 feet and weighs 30 tons / 60 000 pounds...
Did you use to ride with @IwonaBlecharczyk, that ran those blades for a few years? Slightly shorter ones though, Total vehicle length was 74.8 meters if I remember correctly. Plenty of all night video's on her channel.
Large hauls are always on our roads. You see them all the times... some pretty weird looking, like some kind of reactor out of an old timey SciFi show. :))
this one time i drove behind a oversize transport , they were relocating a two-story residential building, that was epic to see. 🤩
if you look at a MAN truck, you can still see the Büssing in it,
the Lion in at the hood is still a insignia from Büssing, the Lion of Braunschweig...
funny fact, the Duke of Braunschweig founded München/Munich, the only reason they have the Lion, too!
I don't know why, but when I look at the machine, the word that always comes to mind first is "dense"; it looks like an English Bulldog.. it looks as if a redwood could fall on this thing and the tree would be split in half aft that.. 😁
10:30 its still the fron of the trailer, the truck just turned arround
Crazy, the Baumann company, who owns this truck, resides just down my street and I had absolutely no idea about that gem they have. So thank you for posting this video and “Alaaf” from Bornheim, Germany. sure I will stop by there tomorrow.
I think it's really funny how you celebrate our trucks ^^ For me, as a German, the truck in the video is unusual, but otherwise quite normal ^^ I think the American trucks are really awesome when it comes to space
I really enjoy your Videos. Greetings from Germany.
As far as I know, MAN didn't build this truck directly itself, but the truck came off the assembly line as a normal truck and was converted by a special company to what it is ^^
That sounds reasonable. Unimog is maybe the only one that builds completely to order? It seems they barely have a base unit.
Sometimes more interesting than the Truck is the load. Many times with these Oversized loads I wonder what that actually is. And in Germany: How do they plan the routes. In such dense areas you have to plan such a load quite carefully to avoid any issues.
"Imagine someone messes up or doesn't take it seriously." - In that case - I have to laugh - someone would probably loose his job. There is literally no space for errors, whatsoever. Maybe someone can post a vodeo on how these trips are planned to avoid issues. That would be interesting too.
saw a heavy transport once that had to reverse 6 km.
one of the bridges they had planned to cross was rated for the weight but they had not measured the railing height correct so it could not cross. bet it was not fun reversing a thing you cant see around.
the roads and bridges are measured in advance for the heavy loads. Road closures often take months of planning and approval. A problem is often the load capacity of bridges. Heavy transport often has to take long detours to avoid a single dilapidated bridge or to avoid a single tight bend.
A problem in my area is the over 50-year-old Autobahn, which has been occupied with construction sites for decades to come. This cannot be used and the heavy transport has to take the other roads.
In my area, heavy transport takes place regularly, always at night or on weekends when traffic is light
500 Tons Solo?!
German Engineering 🗿🗿🗿
This year a complete submarine from ww2 gone to a museum over the road 😮
This whole combination had been built by Toni Maurer and he used the MAN as basic components. Look at the Mercedes Benz Actros and the Merceds Arocs heavy howling machines. Beautie beasts. ;-) Sorry i must add this. Worked 44 years for MB. But MAN has wonderfull Trucks, Ship engines and is building parts for Ariane Space ships. MAN built the first ever diesel engine.
The other day they transfer a entire submarine to the technical museum at Speyer. By truck.
"Fernfahrer" (lit. "far-away driver", long-distance truck driver) = FAIRN-FAH-RHAIR (approx.)
The roundabout was a problem because it was a left turn. Very few places in the US where you can do an unproblematic 90 degree left turn with a 164 foot piece of equipment.
Here in Switzerland there are dedicated routes for heavy traffic between industrial centers. Near where I live, there's a roundabout that's basically only half a roundabout, somewhere else there's one that has two half moons and the middle is a clear cut, normally blocked with flower pots. Obstructive ornaments on roundabouts can be dismantled easily, just like all road signs along those special routes.
Here in Sweden we mostly see MAN busses, but then trucks is mostly just Volvo or Scania.
In case you wonder what the truck is transporting: that is a tower to REFINE OIL ... which is done by "fraktionierte destillation".
- heat up oil
- everything evaporates and starts going up the tower
- this cools down the gaseous oil according to their evaporation temperature ... which is low for short carbohydrate chains and high for longer chains
You obviously need to make sure NO OXYGEN ENTERS THIS TOWER ... which is why the welding needs to be extremely precise.
You should check out the 24,2 metres long tatra from LIBERTY Ostrava
Oh hey! Abensberg is only 30 minutes away by train from here! You can see the industry park that they delivered it to from the train. Impressive.
0:35 FERNFAHRER = Far-Driver
FERN=Far
FAHRER=Driver
FERNFAHRER = Trucker
Him on the back is steering the rear dolly
Some trivia...
MAN comes from Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg.
Meaning machine making factory of Augsburg and Nuremberg. (Yes. That one with the courts...)
The company was founded in 1758. (Yes. Seventeen-Fiftyeight.)
It now belongs to Traton SE. Traton SE is a subsidiary of Volkswagen. (Yes. That Volkswagen which also owns Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini, etc.)
The brand of police car changes according to witch area of Germany your in
If you think these are big you should take a look at the trucks used in the mining industry. Some of these could fit several of these in there dump bed.
Hi Mate .........long distance driver magazine ......a little help from a german in the uk 😊
Greetz from Germany 🎉
This Truck was built by my Friends Father (Toni Maurer)
Imagine a transport over some 20 miles taking the whole night and weeks of preparation.
I was 1 time hitting a Transport a bit smaller but about 100 tones and coming from work at 10 pm at night seeing in my rear the German blue lights thinking it is a medical Transport (emergency vehicle or fire department) im going right in a bus stop and then noticed the first police car that is clearing and warning the traffic going the over direction. The showing me with hazard lights to follow and the line later for me to take the Ausfahrt (exit). I'm giving a thanks with my hazards and got them with the same back.
In Germany a thank you with hazard lights is really normal or u flush light we call it Lichthupe (translates into Light Horn)for the one in front or to show a trucker u let him in your line. In the us i know that isn't really normal and can confusing the driver.
It's time to react too Sweden now Fire trucks Heavy rescue trucks. Scania 🇸🇪💪
There is two Scandinavian speciall trucks videos in a series on RUclips that is actually.quite good where the show 5 specialty trucks in each video.
Have a ginormous swedish lumber truck that moves 250 tons
Yes mby also norwegian truck rescue unit. Greetings from baltic states.😂❤
Assistanskåren, Falck rescue
The way i understand the model name of the truck, 640 may be the horse powers of the engine. Not the most powerful in that sense, but obviously not where the finesse is.
Fernfahrer = far (distance) driver = trucker.
awesome try volvo trucks vs 750 tonnes on youtube. I know now you want to get onto a heavy load on eurotruck simulator lol
The company i work for produces big compressors for the chemical industry. Every time such a 280 ton behemoth gets shipped it's quite a sight
Fernfahrer = Long- distance truck driver
Be aware that the 30-50 km distance is most likely the last leg of transoprt (the pressure vessel could have been also transported by barge down river beforehand), or the producer of the PV was conveniently located nearby because there could be several chemical plants in a certain radius so they built their plant in a strategic location to supply as many plants as possible with as little dificulty as possible. (The roads in the area could have been designed for ease of transport of super large objects if the chemical plants existed for more than 70 years in the area. Where I live we had a slightly smaller (than the depicted PV) chemical reactor that was transported over 150km down river, loaded on a ship and transported to Nigeria.
In Scotland they flattened middle size roundabouts because they drive a lots of windmill parts.
Becasue u asked there was a Transport of the Unterseeboot „U 17“ in Germany 50m long 500t of Weigth
the point is not roundabouts, the same would be caused by any 2 roads crossing, up-ramp or exit-ramp of highways (even worst possibly).
this thing is unique, its all custom mde
man and scania are parts of volkswagen group.
These guys have my respect, they do a great job........nearly all the time, but sometimes....sh*t happens.
500 ww2 Willys MB jeeps = 503 kg so its a LOT of weight
the distance of 30 km(18,6 miles) in germany is long as germany has generaly a denser population so the likelyhood to transport stuff like this over Highways is low (try to drive that cilinder throug a village)
That is not the stongest truck in germany. MAN belongs to VW. They tell a lot crap. Volvo has the FH 16 with 750 Hp. Everyone can buy it. And Volvo has a Crawler Gearbox and a 8x6 Chassis, that can do the same and more, but they don't have to talk about it. This here is just stupid talking.
Fernfahrer is the german word for Longhauler
in the future they might be hybrids with pure electric drive trains and a diesel range extender. for these type of transport, you don't need a fast truck that goes a long range without a break. and you don't need 600hp all the time. for low speed you can use in-wheel electric hub motors. 100hp per wheel is very easy to do. and you save weight because you don't need any differential gear, or an 8-step gear or something like that. the range extender could be a very simple but efficient 2 liter 2 cylinder boxer style engine connected to an electric generator with 100hp. because of the symmetric nature there is no movement of the engine outside. and if the exhaust system is tuned to a specific constant rpm, you can make it dead silent.
MAN great Trucks so Benz are too
Giving Scania a run for it's money. Btw Ian, you should check out the Special Transport DLC in ETS2.
30 km. Probably is the shortest way about 5 km. They probably have to drive a longer way.
I am a German Truck Driver 😊 from Lake of Constance
@05:20.. i m not even a semi guy but this looks SOOO heavy.. just HEAAAAVY! :D look under your car or truck or semi, this looks like toy :D
Yeah most of those parts look like cast steel. And remember, extra weight is good, it actually helps with traction.
if you thought these were impressive you have to see the trojan 8870, those units are absolute monsters if you think these are beasts.
I am surprised that you haven’t discovered yet Jean Claude Van Damme‘s „Epic Split“ on a (or two) Volvo. It’s hilarious. Or is it because of copyright?
Fernfahrer = Truckdriver!
The fahrer/driver part you spelled right but fern is spelled allmost like fair with an N added to the end . Fern means long distance or far away but basicly the whole word is just translated to trucker. In english one word can stand for a couple of meanings in german we have a lot of words for the same meaning. Yeah we are weird people.
awsome vid
I believe we are a bit lucky in Germany as we can move many of those heavy weights over rivers and channels.
This ensured the last mile(s) is not so long.
Maybe some of our German Heavy load guys can tell us what was the longes travel on road for you?
I have seen some documetary about these transports and i believe it was never over 150 km ( 95 miles) or or mostly even less.
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Wat for Truck pull rockets at Cape caneveral
MAN is super truck but watch Trojan heavy haul truck….now that’s a beast
Try schwertransport in Risum-lindholm
Look up the HX81 "Elefant" for another impressive German truck. is made to transport Tanks etc.
The most powerful wasn't the french berliet t100 6x6 made for África?
Good truck by the way 0:03
There is many diffrent way to define powerfull.. ut if we talking about hp och pulling power the frensh truck is not it
Most powerful truck is easily the Volvo & Scania, this is *germany's* most powerful AFAIK
Most powerful in terms of maximum load. 500 tons solo + 750 tons with two machines and 1002 tons with four, is the most extreme registered in Germany right now. They say this in the video for you. Did you guys skip it?
@@dnocturn84 many things are said in Many videos, if we got to believe It all without questions.....
@@salvador_mano4x4 The heaviest registered in Germany doen't mean the heaviest all over the world. Just in Germany only. And this information is correct. So surely there might be more powerful machines outside of Germany in existence. Yes, there might be a more powerful one even in France (or made by a French company for Africa).
Just fyi, for decades the Ariane-rocket-startplattform got pulled by a MAN-truck capable to pull up to 1200tons, meanwhile it got replaced by a Titan-truck, also a german manufacturer, which pulls up to 1900 tons with its 540hp. But tbh those machines can't be exactly compared to the one in your video as they are purpose build for this one job.
I would think a roundabout is better than a normal crossing because you don't have so sharp corners
Competition for this MAN TGX are the (coincidently also) MAN trucks ESA is using to transport the Ariane 5 including the launch pad from the assembly hall to the launch site.
The launch pad weighs 750 tons and an Ariane 5 weighs 780.
The specialy manufactured MAN trucks can pull/push up to 1850 tons.
Seeing that looks comical. One tiny truck pulling that huge ass launch pad with the rocket.
Edit: spelling