Wednesday 28 September 2011

MEET THE WORLD BIGGEST TRUCKS

The  biggest truck in the world is neither a 
Volvo nor a Ford, not even a Mack truck with 
a double trailer. The real monsters are mining 
trucks that stand more than 21 feet tall and 
48 ft long.
 Courtesy: Caterpillar











These mining trucks produce about 4,000 horsepower to move all that mass and travel at a maximum speed of 67 kmph.

The images shown here are those of a 
Caterpillar 797F Mining Truck, which weighs 
more than one million pounds (453,592 
kilograms) and can carry and dump more 
than 300 tons of material in the back.








This gargantuan of a truck is hard to describe, but put it this way, the driver needs to climb from his cab into an open window on the second floor of an average building. Imagine standing on the terrace of your duplex house and driving the entire building?




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