10/5! (heavy haulage edition)

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 05/10/2015 at 18:00 • Filed to: DAF, XF 105

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Here’s a DAF XF 105 in honour of this special day. The picture is taken in....no, work it out. RHD, two trailers and lots of wheels.

DAF are owned by Paccar, an American company who also own Peterbilt and Kenilworth. Both of the latter use DAF designed engines, but as potential buyers wouldn’t like to know that they were using foreign, potentially communist Yoorpean designs they’re branded as Paccar.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Cé hé sin 05/10/2015 at 18:02

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Upside down land.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Cé hé sin 05/10/2015 at 18:07

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I love Kenilworth.

Cé hé sin > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/10/2015 at 18:09

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....is the right answer. It’s a B-Double road train, the reversing of which must be interesting, although not as interesting as a triple or quad.

Cé hé sin > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/10/2015 at 18:10

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Not looking its best now though.

505 - morphine not found > Cé hé sin 05/10/2015 at 18:56

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Wasn’t that Kenworth, what you meant? No castle, lots of haulage?

BATC42 > Cé hé sin 05/10/2015 at 21:37

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Oh man those are so weird. They only have those in New Zealand (well they’re similar). Is there a specific reason? I guess it handles turns better, and the weight per axle is also lower than europeans trailers so you can pack more stuff in it.

Cé hé sin > 505 - morphine not found 05/11/2015 at 04:42

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Them as well. I live in a place free of both!

Cé hé sin > BATC42 05/11/2015 at 04:52

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Just rules. I’m surprised they’re allowed in NZ but they use road trains (up to four trailers) in Australia because they have long distances and straight roads. The longer and heavier the better if you’re a haulier but other road users are persuaded that they’re the root of all evil. See here

In Scandinavia they use these, which are a bit different to the one above:

BATC42 > Cé hé sin 05/11/2015 at 05:03

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That’s what they look like in NZ:

Cé hé sin > BATC42 05/11/2015 at 05:08

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That looks a bit shorter than the Aussie one. Only two axles on the rear trailer and the body on the front trailer seems shorter too