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THE BIGGEST & HEAVIEST TRUCKS OF THE WORLD * USA & Japan: Assembling one & Driving another
* Illinois - This is how they assemble one of those massive dump trucks
(Video from Cat® Products - Published Oct 29, 2014: This video shows a Cat® 797 Mining Truck being partly assembled at a Caterpillar manufacturing facility in Decatur, Illinois, and then the final assembly at a customer jobsite...)
-- Everything about the Caterpillar 797 mining truck is huge. It's got 4,000 horsepower. The engine displacement is nearly 6,500 cubic inches. It weighs more than a million pounds and has a payload capacity of 400 tons. "Big" barely does it justice... What does it take to build such a monster? Caterpillar shows us in the Cat 797 assembly video. It starts at the plant in Decatur, ILL, but the pieces aren't assembled into a mammoth machine until they get out to the job site... A like this one can carry 400 tons in the back, or the equivalent of a little over 266 Honda Civics...
Decatur, ILL, USA - Popular Mechanics, by Andrew Moseman - 5 June 2015
* Japan - You can park this building-sized Dump Truck like it's your mom's Nissan
(Video from Nissan Newsroom Published on Dec 15, 2014: Nissan is licensing two Autonomous Drive technologies to Hitachi Construction Machinery, bringing the visibility of cars to super-sized mining vehicles. The Around View Monitor and Moving Object Detection technologies are building blocks of Nissan's AD vehicles, and drivers will use AVM and MOD)
-- Hitachi has just licensed Nissan's 360º camera technology (called Around View Monitor, or AVM) to be retrofitted into their massive mining trucks. The cameras supplement the six mirrors already in place to keep drivers from running over workers, small cars, or other things you wouldn't feel under 12' tires... The setup puts downward facing cameras all around the vehicle. The views are "stitched together" on a little screen it looks like you're looking down on the vehicle from a third-person view... Seems like this kind of technology would be invaluable in a vehicle as cumbersome as a 2,500 horsepower dump truck designed to carry more than 251 tons... "The most dangerous times [operating a mining truck] are starting, stopping, and parking," said Tomohiko Yasuda, General Manager of Hitachi's Mining & Heavy Equipment Division who looked pretty thrilled to have a better vantage point behind the wheel of his behemoth...
Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan- Truck Yeah!/Jalopnik, by Andrew P Collins - Dec 16, 2014
Labels: biggest trucks, heavy trucks
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