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VOLVO's news * Sweden - How much weight can a FH16-750 pull ?
* Sweden - Volvo Trucks and the Worlds Stongest Man team up for an extreme heavy haulage challenge
(Video from Volvo Group - Apr 12, 2016: How much can a single, series-produced truck haul? A Volvo FH16 featuring I-Shift with crawler gears faces one of the toughest challenges in the history of Volvo Trucks. With the world’s strongest man, Magnus Samuelsson, and trucking journalist Brian Weatherley in the driver’s cab, a Volvo FH16 attempts to pull 750 tonnes)
-- With the world’s strongest man behind the wheel of the world’s strongest series-produced truck, it is up to the new I-Shift with crawler gears to prove what it can do... Today, the answer it's revealed on a Volvo Trucks' YouTube channel, watch the ‘teaser' video above... On March 15th Volvo Trucks launched the new I-Shift with crawler gears. The new crawler ratios make it possible to start and drive with a gross combination weight of up to 325 tonnes - which is unique for a series-produced truck.. But just how much weight can the transmission really handle? Volvo Trucks' forthcoming test of ultimate strength will reveal the answer... In this challenge, which takes place at the Port of Gothenburg, the truck has to pull an extremely heavy container train...
Stockholm, Sweden - Irish Trucker (Ireland) - 12 April 2016
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