Royal Transport masters the on-site transport of a 420 t pumping station thanks to the combined use of two generations of the NICOLAS MHD series

Since 1987, Royal Transport from Norway has been a very reliable address for all types of special transports. Recently, the company was assigned the task of moving a 420 t pumping station in the town of Bergen. For this, they used two self propelled platform trailers - one second-generation (G2) MHD SPE and a first-generation (G1) MHD SP from NICOLAS.

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For this particular assignment, Royal Transport rented an MHD G1 SP in order to combine the vehicle with the company´s own MHD G2 SPE. "The idea was to combine an electronically with a mechanically-steered vehicle in a loose coupling mode. This is unusual, but functioned perfectly with vehicles from NICOLAS following a careful planning process. Thereby, the two PowerPacks used were configured to run in a master/slave mode. Once again, this is a good example of the technical innovative strength that lies behind our vehicles - they offer solutions instead of problems" according to Sébastien PORTEU, Managing Director of the French special vehicle manufacturer NICOLAS which - along with SCHEUERLE, KAMAG and TII Energy - belongs to the TII Group, the world´s leading producer of heavy-load industrial vehicles.

The 420 t concentrated load did not present a large technical challenge for the vehicle combination. The bogie units of the NICOLAS MHD G2 - available with either mechanical or electronic multi-directional steering - have been specially designed to carry extremely concentrated loads. For road transport assignments, the MHD G2 can be used as a trailer or semi-trailer combination as well as being coupled side-by-side as a 3 or 4-file combination. Thanks to the steering concept from NICOLAS, the MHD G2 has the lowest driving height on the market when loaded.