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Used Heavy Haulage Tractor Units
As a specialist truck sales site, you would expect to find plenty of STGO heavy haulage tractor Units for sale at Truckpages.
These tractor units can represent a huge investment for the first owners and typically do not cover too many kilometres. Consequently the heavy haulage rigs can remain on a fleet for many years.
It is therefore unusual to find a late example of a ‘Special Types’ tractor unit for sale in the UK market – if you can find one then snap it up! (assuming you have the work and the necessary licences to operate it.)
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What is the STGO?
These are the regulations that heavy haulage operators should abide by. Standing for ‘road vehicles (authorisation of Special Types) (General) Order 2003′, it covers the exceptions that are allowed to both the Road vehicles (construction & use) regulations 1986 (C&U Regs) and the Road vehicles (authorised weight) regulations 1998 (AW Regs).
There are three categories under the STGO regulations – check the one you are considering to see if it complies.
CAT 1 if for a maximum of 50 tonnes GCW (minimum 6 axles) – This can be reduced to 46 tonnes GCW if only five axles. These trucks appear to be allowed to travel at 60mph on the motorways (where there is usually a 56mph limit?)
CAT 2 permits loads of up to 80 tonnes GCW with no more than 12.5 tonnes on one axle and a minimum of 6 axles. Speed is restricted to 40mph on a motorway.
CAT 3 is the heaviest category which can reach up to 150 tonnes GCW. Again, minimum of 6 axles are required however, does not require a special movements order – this is for operations over 150 tonnes GCW
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Auction Results – Brian Doogue Haulage UK Sale @ Euro Auctions
At the recent December auction Brian Doogue Haulage Ltd disposed of its entire UK fleet of trucks and cranes to Euro Auctions at the Leeds sale between 1st and 3rd December 2021 The decision to dispose of the fleet was made following the closure of the M1 Smart Motorway project, which Brian Doogue had been contracting to. During this time Brian Doogue had amassed a large fleet of highly specialised vehicles able to carry out varied works aligned to this project. With the Highways Agency effectively postponing further Smart Motorway schemes, the decision was made to dispose of the UK…
More Tridem News on a Volvo FH16 750 Tractor Unit
It seems that the tridem configuration is not only finding favour amongst companies looking for improved manoeuvrability for tight deliveries, but also in heavy haulage operation with the top of the range Volvo set up for loads of over 100 tonnes GTW. The Volvo has a reinforced bogie for gross combination weights of 100 tonnes plus The latest example is Paul Chapman & Sons who have added a new Volvo FH16 750 Globetrotter XL to its fleet – one of the first new model FH16 8x4 Tridem tractor units to hit the road in the UK. The Derbyshire-based crushing and…
New Heavy Haulage Scania for Plant Fleet
Purchased to pull a specialist Nooteboom trailer loaded with a bright pink excavator, Waitings Limited’s new Scania 650S S Series heavy haulage tractor unit is plated for operation at 150 tonnes. A civil engineering and specialist plant hire business, Waitings Limited’s Scania is a double-drive STGO Category 3 heavy haulage prime mover and will join the company’s Cliburn, near Penrith, Cumbria-based fleet. Waitings operate a large fleet of earthmoving equipment including excavators up to 70-tonnes in weight. One of the excavators regularly transported by the truck is a specially commissioned, custom candy pink-painted JCB JS220 excavator, a proportion of the…
Mercedes Actros SLT Trio in Mammoth Move
We are all accustomed to seeing the large power generating turbines dotted around the UK – a sight that is set to become more familiar over the coming years. A rarer sight is seeing one of the turbine blades heading down the motorway, let alone a convoy of three of them. Heavy haulage specialist Plant Speed deployed its trio of 250-tonne Mercedes-Benz SLT tractor units to transport what are believed to be the longest wind turbine blades ever moved by road in this country. Heavy haulage specialist Plant Speed used its newest truck – a 250-tonne Actros 4463 SLT to…
