SCHEUERLE has launched a new vehicle designed for the transportation of palletless

With the worldwide unique Non-Cassette Carrier, SCHEUERLE has launched a new vehicle designed for the transportation of palletless 24 x 4.5 metre long packed metal sheets.

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The SCHEUERLE Non-Cassette Carrier being put through its paces with a test load. Each of the lifting forks used has a lifting capacity of 30 tonnes. Positioned in the ergonomically designed driver´s cab, the operator manoeuvres the SCHEUERLE Non-Cassette Carrier, supported by a camera and radar system

24 steered axles, 48 tyres, and around 25 metres long: the SCHEUERLE Non-Cassette Carrier has a very impressive appearance. But not only this, even more impressive is the versatility of the vehicle in use: the SCHEUERLE Non-Cassette Carrier not only moves stacks of steel plate during in-company operations without requiring any pallets, but can also be used in combination with a transport ship as part of a roll-on roll-off concept. Two of the four transporters initially ordered have already been delivered to the customer.

SCHEUERLE customer, Kübler, transported the SCHEUERLE Non-Cassette Carrier to the port of Mannheim with the help of a SCHEUERLE InterCombi and a SCHEUERLE FlatCombi

The design of the Non-Cassette Carrier is based on a robust ladder-type frame which is combined with the proven, hydraulically-supported SCHEUERLE pendulum axles and fourteen integrated lifting forks. In order to be able to also accommodate the required payload of 250 tonnes, if this does not extend over the entire length of the vehicle, each individual fork has been designed to handle 30 tons of load. The vehicle is powered by the proven MAN six-cylinder with 338 kW  which has long been successfully used in the Power Packs from SCHEUERLE to drive the InterCombi SP. When designing the pendulum axles, the engineers relied very much on the 30 years of experience with the SPMT pendulum axle technology that has proven itself worldwide in the toughest of conditions for the transport of the world's heaviest loads. A camera and radar system facilitates the handling of the Non-Cassette Carrier and allows the driver to precisely position the vehicle thus resulting in safe and efficient working conditions. In addition to the lifting fork operations, the vehicle can also be loaded from above. The first two transporters were taken by SCHEUERLE customer, Kübler, from the production site in Pfedelbach near Heilbronn to the port facility in Mannheim - during two consecutive night journeys - and subsequently shipped from there.

With a width of around 8 metres and a more than 30 m total length of the combination, precision work was required during the transport; here, the qualities of the extremely manoeuvrable Inter/FlatCombis with hydraulic axle suspension came to the fore