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The waterpump on this can pump 6,500 liters per minute and has 10 bar pressure. The truck also has a foam generator which can produce 6,000 liters per minute.

This kind of water capacity makes the truck significantly more useful in places with little or no water access. It’s also being offered as a work truck on coal mines and in oil and gas fields.

It has a V8 turbocharged 16 liter engine for 571 horsepower. It has an Allison 4700 P transmission (auto). The cab can hold 5 crew. This big fire truck has a weight of 68 tons. Still, it can go 65 km/h (40 mph).

It runs on a 6X6 Paul Heavy Mover chassis recently introduced.

Here’s What Happens when 2 Big Truck Companies Team Up

The MAN company, by request of the Fulda company, made the concept truck you see here. Which, for many years has attracted the attention of visitors at different shows and events. And yes, you probably noted that this is another giant truck made by MAN, that company on the UK’s Isle of Man.

As a result of the cooperation between the two trucking companies, this quite efficient transport unit was received, which passed TUF and has certification and registration in traffic police in Europe.

The truck tractor, made of experimental and mass-production MAN components, has significantly efficient aerodynamics, it is reported, due to the fact that the cabin has a sloped windshield, rounded front panels and a fully closed chassis.

The huge cabin is divided into three parts: a comfortable working area, spacious living compartment (internal volume in 2.5 times bigger than many of today’s trucks) and the impressive size engine place, where an economical 12.8-liter engine and automatic transmission are placed.

Both sides of the cabin have a large sliding door with electronic lock with electronic handles, working together with central locking. The floor inside the cabin is absolutely flat, and the height from floor to ceiling reaches 2 meters (6.56 feet). Low-lying passive spoiler, part of the continuum shell under the bottom, prevents turbulence under the truck. Huge mirrors are electric drive and heated. Together, headlights with fog lights are installed in vertical racks on the sides of a large air intake cooling system. The base of the truck is standard for 3-axle trucks, but its overall length nearly 2 meters due to a large front nose, where the radiator and almost all of the 460-hp engine is installed. The 3-axle trailer has a modern design with an independent suspension and sliding frame. Inside, there is an office or showroom. The tractor and trailer are painted in a radical black color.

So, this large luxury RV (for public recreation on this one!) tractor-trailer at a show when someone sees it: they usually don’t forget it. Interesting work by MAN and Fulda trucking on this unique truck.

What Is the Greatest Place Trucking has brought You?

One of the biggest perks (I think probably undoubtedly, do you guys all agree?) is that you see a great deal of the country and land. Long haulers know how the land from one end to the other. They know how it changes, how the hills start and where the mounains jut up, and the rivers have carved into them. Long haulers know the country from end to end, and they know what the different places are like and somewhat what the people in the various places are like. It must be a tough job too, especially for truck maintenance, it’s a good thing they can use something like Proteck Oil to keep things together on those long hauls.

So what is the greatest place trucking has brought you? If you have a photo or two, definitely feel free to share it. This could be a good collection of truckers across the countries showing the spots they’ve been.
Long hauling as empoyment isn’t for everyone, that is for sure. But for some people, they really like it. They can’t get enough driving, it is said. They like being up in a big truck making their way there and back. And maybe they prefer not backing into loading docks many times during the week, maneuvering tight spaces, city traffic and trying not to crash on the highway. However, crashes do happen. Even if you are the most careful driver out there, just one simple mistake from another driver can an accident resulting in an injury (or worse death). So if you’ve experienced an accident with a truck then it might be a good idea to get a lawyer involved (such as this Rock Hill truck accident lawyer) to help you with your lawsuit.

“It is a lifestyle,” Brett R. Aquila is a 15-year veteran of America’s highways, logging over 1.5 million safe miles, wrote of long haul truck driving as a job, on A Trucking Life.

“Traveling the country, living in the truck, and never knowing where the next load might take you becomes your life. Yes, you get to go home every few weeks, but you’ll find that you are no longer part of the everyday lives of your family and friends, so you will be treated more like an acquaintance than a loved one.”

How About this RV Chariot?

From a company that bought Kenworth semi chassis and built SUVs on them.

Shown is the Dominator model, which includes the eight rear wheels for handling those trips to Sam’s Club.

FEATURES (inspired by The Bicycle Forest for some of these):

• Fits under MOST bridge underpasses.
• May fit under overpasses
• Rated in GpM (Gallons per mile)
• Familiarity with weigh station attendants
• Lots of praise from truckers and RVers
• Lots of criticism from truckers and RVers
• Lots of criticism from environmentalists
• Lots of qualified approval by environmentalists who picture travelling with their families in one of these
• Lots of tire changing experience when Firestone’s blow out
• Lots of weight to help with cornering
• Improved math from calculating stopping distances
• Capacity for half a small town
• Can tow small town behind
• Yours for under $200,000 ($100,000 for truck chassis + $100,000 standard SUV markup) (NOTE guys, this is an older quote. I don’t know what a quote in 2015 would be, but you can use this one as a basic information base).

Chariot RV makes “Dominators.” They don’t all look like this one. The company builds RV units onto various tractors. Many of them look like square motorhome atop (on back of) the tractor).

According to the RV builders, the truss system helps balance the weight of the motorcoach and increases stability and strength. The floor, they say, a unique lamination process provides better insulation and increases the vehicle strength and safety. Chariot RV produces, they say, the only laminated floor in a motorcoach.

The more common RV motorcoachs have these standard features:

• Kenworth Chassis
• Overall Length: 45′
• 34′ Living Quarters

What Is Right?

“Immigrants and refugees,” even reading the words can bring tightness in some people’s stomach. There are so many argumentative opinions on what should be done. How do you decide what is right for anyone’s life? Maybe that is the question we should be asking.

I turn on the TV in the morning all I hear is about what is going on with the immigrants or refugees. You would think there is nothing else going on in the world. And it also seems the news rotates, covering different countries in how they are responding to being overrun by immigrants and refugees. The headlines of both immigrants and refugees have involved Italy, France, England, Greece, Germany, and Hungry. The immigrants and refugees for years have work through the town Calais, North of France to get to the English Channel. Italy now is saying it will have anti-immigrant sentiment because an elderly couple was murdered by an 18 year-old migrant man from the Ivory Coast. And one cannot forego without remembering the 71 migrants that died in the lorry in Austria apprehending the driver in Hungry. This is not counting the number of people who have drowned before they even landed. Don’t forget the human traffickers who are offering “package deals” to the immigrants and refugees: illegally entering and working off the monies owned to the traffickers for assisting them. Of course there are those traffickers who insist on being paid upfront in view of the facts lots of them are dying on the journey. Yesterday, a three year’s old boy washed up dead on the beach in Turkey. What makes’ someone leave their country knowing the journey will be in turmoil to the point survival, which may not be in reach?

There is a difference between refugees and immigrants. Migrants leave their countries for nonaggression reasons whereas refuges leave because of a fear of being persecuted. Those seeking asylum usually are the refugees because of fear they will be prosecuted for their beliefs; political, social and religious. The immigrants want to leave their country due to economic reasons; lack of employment, affordable housing and health-care benefits.

Approximately five years ago in the country of Syria, President Bashar al-Assad was opposed by the people protesting at children being arrested and tortured because they had written graffiti against the government. Although the protest was peaceful while requesting the government to set the children free the army killed four people. During the funeral of the four victims, again the army killed another person. The people were disheartened by the incident for they just wanted more freedom. They demanded the president to resign. The president refused and offered to change things, the people doubted his words. This all started in March of 2011 and has worsened with groups of militias; Free Syrian Army, Islamist-ISIS, and others. Many refugees have fled to other countries needing asylum. When you come from a country, which restrains you from freedom of thought…any journey even the ones in turmoil are worth every step. Staying where you are living…wondering if today is your last day to breathe is not a way to live…and have expressed they are dead already… at least there is a chance when fleeing to another country.

The solution…every country leader has the answer…NOT! The measuring of one countries land is not considered…i.e. Germany vs. England in land. England has 8 million immigrants. Jamming people into any country that already has 8 million immigrants will cause more conflict. This will cause the citizens to be more aggressive toward immigrants taking benefits the citizens have worked hard to have for themselves. And where will the money come from for the immigrants? Does someone have a Genie lamp and rub it three times…puff…there is the money? No country wants to take on more people to take care of, when they are struggling to care for the citizens who legally live in the country. Britain, among many other countries gives billions oversea to aid other countries. Does it actually get to the people who need it?

Here is a question…what would happen if we taught and assisted the refugees to get back their countries? What if the job we gave the refugees was to enlist in government military? What about the immigrants leaving their countries because there are not enough resources to live? Why? Who is taking all the resources? Are the leaders of the countries being greedy villains allowing the people to suffer?   Is there no land, which is enriched with soil to cultivate plants for food? I am sure there is garbage to make compost to enrich the soil. And supplying countries with materials does not work…why? Because they run out of the materials and then where are they…in the same place they were at the beginning… but teaching someone to take care of themselves is a “light bulb” moment…”self-efficient.” I would think Haiti has taught us this lesson to remember. Nothing is wrong with assisting someone to get on their feet, but eventually the well goes dry and/or people simply get tired and hid from the problem…knowledge last.

By Linda Allen

Enchanting, Radical, Controversial RV Body Design

The enchanting, radical and often controversial body of work by the legendary Swiss-Italian designer Luigi Colani, is an industrial designer and the one famous for a certain round windshielded silver RV commonly cited as “the most expensive” RV (we have it on Blogunity, too).

Mr Colini is a very old designer. He was born in 1928. He’s been in the public eye for some of his unconventional designs, including aerodynamic trucks. He’s known to designers and the public alike for these designs. Colini has also received design awards over his career, but he’s mostly a design outsider because he takes an unconventional approach, it is said.

It was in the early 70s that Colini developed his first streamlined truck design, which he said, “was a direct response to the world oil crisis yet nobody noticed my design. They didn’t get the message.” Colini again designed streamlined trucks later in the decade.

In the 80s, too, Colini’s designs reflected his interest in fuel economy. The trucks and aircraft, ships and cars Colini designed and studied were exhibited worldwide.

Colini set a record in 1981 for fuel economy for his 4-seater 2CV.

Road Train of Semi Trucks!

In Australia, they tow 3 or more trailers in “road trains.” Would you try this? Can you see the advantages?

They’re the longest trucks in the world. Some are 53 metres long, ( 174 feet ) hauling 115 metric tons (253,531 pounds), some, so-called “super Road-Trains,” have 7 trailers and haul 190 metric tonnes.

In North America we have a lot of rails — Europe, too. In Canada and America, our railroads were part of the history and life of our nations. In Australia, though, railways are few and far between. Most freight is transported by semis in these road-trains. Tractor-trailer-trailer-trailers are the best way to move long trains of freight in Australia, it is said, whether from the Outback to the city of Darwin or Perth, across the rugged and often barren wilds of the dusty orange and tan Aus desert.

You’ve seen trucks on the back of trains, but have you ever seen a train on the back of a truck?

This is the Record: Longest Road Train…

This is the longest road train on the books, folks. And the record holder are transport operators in Burke, Australia. This is how they do it in the “Land Down Under,” “Oz” “Auz”… “Australia.”

In Scotland trainspotting is popular. This makes you wonder about the popularity of semi spotting in Australia. How long do you have to wait at a road crossing?

Australian Road-Trains is what these are called. They are the longest trucks in the world. Most of them: They have 3 or more trailers on the back of the tractor and are 53 meters long (174 feet). They haul 115 metric tons (253, 531 pounds). Others, the stand-out ones: 7 trailers and haul 190 metric tons. These are long tractor-trailer rigs. More like tractor-trailer-trailer-trailers?! Are they driven by owner-operator -operator-operator-operators?

1…2….3…. not gonna make you count, but don’t ruin it for the other readers who want to try to guess! This record-holding truck was in front of 29 trailers. Guys, if you have more photos of these things, please share them on the Facebook post!