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What is it? You don’t see this every day. We see a lot of Kenworths, Peterbilts, Freightliners, Macs, Volvos, and many others, but this one? It’s a HET (Heavy Equipment Transport System) made by Oshkosh powered by a Detroit Diesel 8V92 .. can haul like 70 tons. … 70 tons (140,000 pounds)!
According to the man who runs one:
“My truck and trailer scale out at 58,480 pounds empty. When I have the three axle jeep and two axle stinger pinned on I’m 78,000 pounds empty. I can legal about 230,000 pounds gross depending on which state I’m in. My T800 with 550 cummins pulls it no problem.”
A little about the custom job:
“We dressed it up a little…put square headlights because they are more readily available….and my boss designed the cheese grater grille…which i think looks stupid as hell…but whatever, not my monkey not my circus.”
Apparently, the level of power supplied by these trucks is required:
“Its not overkill when you need to go into the wind turbine pad which is a “site road” which is gravel sprkinled on a farmers field…and with grossing 200 tonnes…you need the snort to drag the trailer…there are 96 tires on that thing. We also have a pair of kw t800s and a western star 4794x with 2 spd rear ends. We use those for the on highway stuff
Even though some might wonder about the amount of work required to do the brakes and bearings and other things on these, according to someone who uses them:
“Made in Germany…we have 4 lines from 1996 with less than 25% of the linings worn off…..its all proportional braking….there are another 36 duals that you cant see on that trailer”
