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Works bought a fleet of MAN TGM 15.290 4x4's to turn into fire vehicles/gang trucks and then a pair of TGM 33.440 6x6's to use as Bulk Water Carriers. The 6x6'are loving unstoppable- we've got them set up with tip trays too and with 16t in the tray the thing dragged itself through nearly 3' deep mud and water without issue. Im also convinced that the ZF 12 speed Manualmatic gearboxes in them are powered by voodoo- RARELY do you need to intervene because its stuffed up a gear.
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Aug 23, 2013 15:12
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Javid posted:gently caress knows what a road train weighs. On average, 176,369-264,554 lb. Quads are up too 298,726 lb and if its a quad with a Tri-drive prime mover and tri-axle dollys, they top out at 374,785 lb.
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Aug 29, 2013 16:21
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Rudager posted:Biggest factor is we run b-double combination's for any inter-city work, and even alot of intra-city work too, and it's a hell of a lot easier to just pull back curtains on both trailers than to split it all up, slide the body on the A trailer back and forwards and put it all back together again. I think its also how much freight gets unloaded at places without a dock too- think about the number of outback towns that are serviced purely by truck and all they have is the 200m of sealed road through town (to keep the dust down) and the forklift thats kept out the back of the pub. Its a nightmare to unload a truck purely out of the rear if you cant drive the fork into it- you'd have to pallet truck everything to the back and fork it out from there. Side load you just swing back the sides, park the truck in the middle of the street and have at it.
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Sep 26, 2014 13:39
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Is there a reason they dont run the big 6x6 or 8x8 euro trucks up in that slop? A big 6x6 MAN or Iveco or Kamaz on lumpy super singles would have to be easier than dragging 6x4's on road tyres out with a bulldozer day in day out.
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Oct 27, 2014 12:29
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We've got MAN TGM15.280's and a few TGS33.440's at work, both with the ZF 12 speed self shifting manuals in them and they are absolutely aweseome to drive- Really smooth off the line and at very low revs, easy as hell to drive offroad too and if you want you can drop them into full manual mode and control it all with the stick on the side of the wheel. Only time ive ever felt let down by them is occassionally they will skip shift a bit too abitiously- you'll go up a gear too far and lug the engine a fair bit, but they have a mode where you push the go pedal down further than the first stop and it will kick it down a gear and make it hurl towards the redline before changing if you hold it flat.
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May 10, 2015 14:01
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At least the snow should put the bushfire out right?
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May 21, 2016 13:30
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The amount of water being pulled into the exhaust and blown out the stack through the drain hole is impressive!
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Jun 7, 2016 03:02
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