Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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34 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2015 EQUIPMENT Anderson Trucking Service's state-of-the-art TK360 trailer, built by Trail King, is designed for loads ranging from 200,000 to 360,000 pounds. When fully expanded to more than 210 feet in length, it will span two lanes of a roadway and allow the St. Cloud, Minn.-based specialized hauling fleet to meet bridge and engineer- ing standards for a greatly increased permitted vehicle capacity. The TK360 trailer has multiple deck lengths and axles designed to expand from 14 feet wide out to 20. The trailer will be equipped with a perimeter deck designed to reduce loaded height and extend up to 72 feet long. Brent Anderson, ATS chief operating officer, said the unit was ordered in February after many months of fact-finding and engineering and "will take the ATS Heavy Haul capacity to the next level. Hauling loads up to 360,000 pounds means that we will be permit- ting this equipment for up to 700,000 pounds." All dual-lane loads will require upfront planning and engineering atypical of normal oversize/over- weight transport. Hauls are expected to require a team of at least six people, including a supervisor, escorts and two drivers – one pulling truck in front and one push truck behind. Trail King Industries, TrailKing.com Holcombe Energy Resource, one of Pennsylvania's largest oil and gas service providers, was founded a short six years ago by Matthew Austin with only $8,000. Established to provide transportation services to the oil and gas in- dustry around north- eastern Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale formation, Holcombe has run Freightlin- ers exclusively in part due to what Austin describes as a high level of customer service from Daim- ler Truck Financial, the financing arm of Freightliner's parent company. They helped finance Holcombe's current 10 Freightliner 112SD tri-axle water trucks that, in the energy and oil business, often face mountain- ous and other harsh conditions – no problem, since they are equipped with a 1,900-square-inch radiator to cool engines rated up to 600 hp and 2,050 lb.-ft. of torque for loads up to 160,000 pounds. "My experience with Freightliner Trucks and the Daimler Truck Financial people is the reason we will always stick with this brand," Austin said. Freightliner Trucks, FreightlinerTrucks.com Custom oversize-haul trailer built for ATS Simple financing jumpstarts 10-truck vocational fleet Holcombe Energy Resource's Freightliner 112SD tri-axle water trucks are equipped with the Cummins ISX15 and feature a wheel cut up to 50 degrees that helps negotiate tight spaces. Steer axles are rated from 12,000 to 22,000 pounds and the drives from 23,000 to 70,000. Rollie Anderson, ATS chief executive o cer, said the introduction of the eet's "new agship," its Trail King TK360 trailer, coincided with his company's 60-year anniversary.