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by Nick Drew  |  Thu 27 Nov 2014

Liebherr monster trucks in Canada (Blog Re-visited)

Patrick Snider a regular reader of the Digger Man Blog sent in some fantastic photos some years ago of the Liebherr T282B dumptrucks that he works with in Alberta Canada.

Patrick was working as a mechanic with these trucks for over a year and then moved on to become the components rebuild technician. At the time there were six of these giant trucks working on a site 30 miles to the west of Edmonton where they are employed to move overburden for a coal mine. There were also an amazing 30 trucks at work hauling tar sands at Syncrude's Athabasca oil sands site which is north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The Liebherr T 282B was launched in 2004, and it became the largest earth-hauling truck in the world. This impressive photo shows the T282B at its debut during the Bauma Trade Fair 2004 machinery show in Munich, Germany. The T 282B has an empty weight of 203 tonnes, and a maximum capacity of 365 tonnes. The maximum operating weight is 592 tonnes. It is 14.5 meters long and 7.4 meters tall over the canopy, with a wheelbase of 6.6 meters. The top level model is driven by a 10.5 tonne, 90 litre diesel engine, developed by Detroit Diesel and MTU (Germany), producing 3650 horsepower (2700 kW). This engine powers two Siemens electric traction motors in the rear axle. The top speed of the truck is 40 mph (65 km/h). The truck costs about US$ 3.5 million. Somewhat surprisingly CD-player and air conditioning systems are optional, unusual in the world of professional hauling. Liebherr now has many examples of this truck working in coal, copper, iron and gold mines in the USA, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, South Africa and Australia. The trucks are assembled in a 10 acre (4 ha) factory in Newport News, Virginia, USA, that can handle four 282s at a time. Since this blog post was first written the Liebherr 282B has been upgraded to C series status. We thank Patrick for supplying the photos.      

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