Volvo FH16-520 - Van Santen

This Volvo FH16 with 520 horsepower is owned by Van Santen from Haarlem. The tractor has been modified by Terberg Benschop. They mounted the torque converter and the extra cooling. The torque converter is a ZF unit, the WSK-440. Van Santen mainly owns Volvo trucks.

The volvo is coupled to a 5-axled Nooteboom lowloader. A 2-axled Interdolly also belongs to this trailer (not on the pictures). The load is a Caterpillar D300E-II articulated dumper. It weighs about 28 tonnes and is a relatively light load for this combination.

The axle-layout is still in the old style, namely the 2 + 2 arrangement. Nowadays the 1 + 3 layout is more widely used because of the better load distribution.

Behind this peace of sheetmetal houses one of the strongest oil-air coolers avaible for the truck branche. This cooler cools the gear box oil (mainly torque converter and built in retarder). The cooling capacity of this cooler is enough to keep the torque converter and retarder cool, even during heavy usage.

When they got a (un)loading platform at Geveke you should also use it, this driver must have thought. At least it saves him some time because he doesn’t have to uncouple the goose neck of his trailer !!

Here, on another day, the same truck came by again. This time it came to collect a Caterpillar 988F-II. The owner of that 988 wanted to have it painted in his company colours, so it had to be transported to the painter. Therefore Van Santen came with its 4-axled Volvo and a 5-axled Nooteboom lowloader. It had already coupled of its goose neck when I got there with the camera. Here you can see that the goose neck supports on a strut that pushes against the chassis.

The Cat is being diven backwards over the lowloader floor that lies on the ground.

Here the shovel has been fastened and the goose neck is mounted back on the lowloader. The shovel hangs with its tires besides the floor to reduce the total height.

And this is how the machine looks like after it has been resprayed!!

 
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