Heavy Haulage: Illustrated History Books & Guides

Camions XXL : convois exceptionnels, remorques, escortes, dépanneuses

From the first decades of road transport to the present day, discover the technical evolution of trucks through unpublished photos. In a world where image is everything, this book, enriched with technical sheets, presents photos of all kinds of convoys to satisfy truck enthusiasts.
Enriched with technical sheets, this book invites you to discover all kinds of convoys: agricultural, fairground, escorts, construction, motorhomes, trailers, tow trucks, etc.

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Author:	Marc Guillemin
Details:	160 pages, 11.4 x 9 in (29 x 24 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	352 b&w and color photos
Language:	French
Publisher:	ETAI (F, 2018)
ISBN:	9791028302498

Convois exceptionnels, les monstres de la route (2e édition)

Flashing lights with pilot cars and motorcyclist escort, the road belongs to the Convois Exceptionnels. This book tells the daily life of yesterday and today of French land transport outside the norm, produced by a fan of big trucks, solid trailers and heavy cranes who is also a regional historian, writer and press correspondent.
Preliminary studies, authorizations and traffic conditions, equipment necessary for the transport of indivisible masses are explained and described in these pages illustrated with more than three hundred photographs and drawings.

Readers will find the convoys of yesteryear that contributed to the Trente Glorieuses, the tractors, pullers, pushers, of the 21st century whose power continues to grow in order to transport planes, boats, locomotives, gigantic public works machines, steam generators weighing three or four hundred tons intended for nuclear power plants, but also the wheeled cranes with enormous booms designed to assemble wind turbines over a hundred meters high and load particularly heavy "packages".
Several chapters present the large special transport companies, the manufacturers of trucks and trailers. The tow trucks have not been forgotten in the saga of these transports where men and materials are exceptional.

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Author:	Marc Guillemin
Details:	160 pages, 9 x 10.6 in (24 x 27 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	329 b&w and color photos
Language:	French
Publisher:	ETAI (F, 2009)
ISBN:	9782726888445

Das Schwertransporte-Buch

Wherever they appear, they attract attention - the huge heavy transports with their tractors from Titan, Faun, MAN, MB, Kenworth or Oshkosh. The book shows and explains impressive heavy transports and their tractors with technical data, dimension drawings and a wealth of illustrations.

From the content:
- Transport and assembly of a generator with Mercedes-Benz tractors
- Transport of wind turbines
- Transport of sulphuric acid containers
- Transport of a 185-year-old Uhlemann house with MAN tractors
- a Liebherr excavator and a high-pressure preheater
- FAUN machines and transport of a turbine runner
- Transport of a desulfurization reactor
- Transport of a press part and a transformer with Titan tractors
- Kenworth 953 and CC 500 and Oshkosh heavy-duty vehicles.

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Author:	Michael Schauer
Details:	136 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	136 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2001)
ISBN:	9783861332633

Drahtseilschwertransporte im Hochgebirge (Band 2)

Great driving skills and "nerves of steel" are the prerequisites for transporting wire ropes into the high mountains. The roads are rarely asphalted, the last few meters often consist only of loose gravel. Any driving error can be life-threatening.
Michael Müller was there again when it came to exciting new heavy wire rope transports in the high mountains: Piztal Glacier, Zermatt, Ischgl, Stubai Glacier and others.

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Author:	Michael Müller
Details:	168 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	440 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2021)
ISBN:	9783861339861

Ein Haus geht auf Reisen: Die Verschiebung des MFO-Gebäudes in Oerlikon

In May 2012, the whole world looked to Zurich-Oerlikon to watch the most spectacular building relocation ever seen on the continent. The book provides exciting information about this unique technical masterpiece and previously unknown facts about the history of this building.

Oerlikon's last industrial monument was actually already destined for demolition. But the residents of the district managed to persuade the owner and the city to preserve the building in a thrilling negotiation.
But what was the purpose of the MFO administration building in the first place? What stories were told in it? Does moving the building make sense from a monument preservation perspective?
A search for clues to the 6200 tonne building.

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Author:	Verein Oerlikon, Rudolf Huber
Details:	72 pages, hardback
Illustrations:	extensively illustrated
Language:	German
Publisher:	Orell Füssli Verlage (CH, 2014)
ISBN:	9783280055489

MAN - Vierachsige TGA in schwerem Einsatz

When four-axle MAN TGAs with 660 hp set off on long journeys, technology enthusiasts' hearts beat faster. The authors were on the trail of the heavy machines and report in words and pictures about their use and technology.
A list of all delivered tractor units of the H 95 series rounds off the book. An indispensable compendium for heavy-duty enthusiasts and model makers.

From the contents:
- Development of the heavy-duty tractor TGA 41.660 8x4/4 type H 95
- Vehicle production TGA 41.660
- Vehicle body 41.660 H 95
- Transformer transport
- The H 95 tractors in sequence
- 30 000 MAN from ÖAF
- H 950016
- Various transports
- Test vehicles
- The TGX 41.680
- Four-axle vehicle with special bodies
- Swiss special vehicle.

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Author:	Michael Müller, Rainer Bohn
Details:	144 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	370 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2008)
ISBN:	9783861334729

Mercedes-Benz Schwerlast-Zugmaschinen

The Mercedes-Benz Group is the world market leader with its commercial vehicle division. Heavy-duty tractors are a key area for the company's image.

The authors show and describe the many types of vehicles, which are almost always built specifically to customer requirements. Exciting transport reports will also delight the reader.

From the contents:
- Creation of a heavy-duty tractor
- Model 3250A(S) and 3850A(S)
- Type 2636AS with double turbo
- Four-axle tractors type 33365
- Model 4050AS 8x6 and 4850A 8x8
- NG 2644S tractor
- Universal tractor 3544S
- Model 4044S
- Three-axle SK 2648S and SK 2650/3050 and 2644
- Four-axle SK 3548S
- SK 3550S 8x4 and 3550AS 8x6
- SK three-axle and SK four-axle - last generation
- Generation Actros
- Paul Nutzfahrzeuge
- various transport reports.

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Author:	Stefan Jung, Wolfgang Hauch
Details:	176 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	470 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2006)
ISBN:	9783861334095

Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (3)

Whenever the heavy-duty tractors, often with four or even five axles, set off with their enormous loads over the last three decades, the author was there. In his third volume, the author once again shows and explains the best pictures of the most exciting transports in his tried and tested manner.

From the contents:
- Friderici with 320t transformer
- Wirzius column transport
- Mammoet
- Van de Vlist with 220t in Saarland
- 150t lifting lever bridge from Vlist
- Juhl with Greiner boiler bridge
- Franke Schwerlast company
- Baum picture collection from Cologne
- Application examples from August Alborn Dortmund
- Voss boiler bridge history
- Schütz and his Titan tractors
- and much more...

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Author:	Thorge Clever
Details:	144 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	290 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2011)
ISBN:	9783861335917

Autokran & Schwertransport: Berichte aus früheren Jahrzehnten

Nowadays, heavy goods weighing several hundred or even thousands of tons can be moved with apparent ease by mobile cranes and heavy transporters. Around fifty years ago, much smaller loads posed a real challenge. At that time, the heavy athletes, who today seem small, made a name for themselves with their creative pioneering achievements.

In this book, Wolfgang Weinbach presents completed truck crane and heavy load stories with previously unpublished photos from the era of roll film photography:
- Large module transports at Krupp in Wilhelmshaven
- Truck crane 120 GMT
- IMONTA trade fair premiere 1974
- NPP steam generator loading 1973
- DEMAG TC 1000 S
- Krupp lattice boom cranes.

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Author:	Wolfgang Weinbach
Details:	160 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	480 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2016)
ISBN:	9783861338314

Die Schwerlastspezialisten: Scheuerle, Nicolas und Kamag

The TII Group is the world's leading provider of heavy-duty and special vehicles. The sister companies Scheuerle, Nicolas and Kamag offer breathtaking technology: NASA rocket transports, slag transports with loads at 1000 degrees, oil rig transports with over 14 000 tons, the largest heavy-duty tractor unit in the world and much more.
The authors trace the company's history and show and explain the development from the first platform truck to today's high-tech device.

From the contents:

Scheuerle:
- Low-loader trailers
- Hydraulic axle lines
- EuroCombi
- FlatCombi
- InterCombi
- Boiler and side girder bridges
- SPMT model
- Axles for the Grove crane
- Special vehicles
- Slag transporters
- Wagon turners
- Straddle carriers
- Beaver
- Sectional lifting transporters
- Transport reports.

Kamag:
- Module transporter series 2400
- Slag transporters
- Slab transporters
- Shipyard transporters
- Vehicles for aerospace
- Special designs.

Nicolas:
- Tractomas heavy-duty tractors
- MDEB tram locomotive and wagon transporters
- Special vehicles series SC
- Heavy tank bridges
- Airbus transport systems assembly
- Transport reports.

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Author:	Stefan Jung, Michael Müller
Details:	180 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	645 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2010)
ISBN:	9783861335573

Große Ladekranfahrzeuge (Band 3)

They are in use on every construction site, by transport logistics companies, fire departments, municipalities and aid organizations such as the THW: the large loading crane vehicles. Wherever they are set up, they attract the interest of passers-by.
The market for large loading crane vehicles in Germany is growing enormously. However, no two vehicles are the same; each one is unique. Michael Müller and Fabian Meysing have once again tracked down hundreds of highly interesting loading crane vehicles. The most unusual ones are shown here and expertly explained.

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Author:	Michael Müller, Fabian Meysing
Details:	168 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	440 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2017)
ISBN:	9783861338284

Große Ladekranfahrzeuge (Band 4)

They are at home on every construction site, transport containers, move vehicles weighing several tons and are used by fire departments, municipalities and aid organizations: the large loading crane vehicles.
Michael Müller and Fabian Meysing were once again out and about with their cameras. They have found new, highly interesting and often unique crane vehicles.
Here they are presented, the heavy tractors with up to six axles from MAN, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Iveco or Scania with their enormous cranes from Palfinger, Atlas, Fassi, HMF, Cormach Hiab, MKG or Effer.

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Author:	Michael Müller, Fabian Meysing
Details:	168 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	440 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2017)
ISBN:	9783861338406

Schwerlast-Zugmaschinen unterwegs in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren

Die 1980er and 1990er Jahre waren eine Zeit der legendären Schwertransporttechnik and der schweren Lasten. Die jeweils als Unikat angefertigten Schwerlastzugmaschinen waren beeindruckend and die Transporte selbst eine Herausforderung für die Fahrer and die Speditionsunternehmen.

Thorge Clever nimmt die Leserinnen and Leser mit auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit. Er zeigt, wie die Schwertransporte in diesen Jahrzehnten durchgeführt wurden - mit beeindruckenden Fotografien der Zugmaschinen and der Transporttechnik, fernab der heutigen Massenware.

Aus dem Inhalt: AKV, Alborn, Baum, Bohnet, Bracht, Franke, Goll, Grundt, Karl, Krause, Kronschnabel, Kübler, Lastra, Mammoet, Sauter, Schindler, Schmidbauer, Scholpp, Schütz, Siefert, Toense, Tschudy, Universal, Wirzius, Zwagermann and andere.

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Author:	Thorge Clever
Details:	142 pages, 11.2 x 8.5 x 0.67 in (28.5 x 21.5 x 1.7 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	380 color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2023)
ISBN:	9783751610797

Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (2)

Wherever huge heavy transports are seen, crowds of people gather to watch the fascinating spectacle. The author, who also deals with heavy transports professionally, has been photographing these operations for more than 25 years.
In his second volume, he once again shows exciting transports from the eighties and nineties.

From the contents: Heavy Cargo, Kübler and Westfracht, carrying spouts from DWE, Max Goll, Fahrenholz, Fagioli, Delta Besenzoni, Siefert, Krause, Schindler, Scholpp, Schmidbauer, Pieper, Schütz, Brame.

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Author:	Thorge Clever
Details:	136 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	310 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2009)
ISBN:	9783861335399

Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (4)

For more than 30 years, Thorge Clever has been there with his camera whenever there is an exciting heavy transport operation. Over time, around 40 000 photographs have accumulated in his archive.

In his fourth volume, the author once again shows the best shots from spectacular operations, mainly from the 1980s and 1990s. Some of the heavy haulage companies that were popular at the time have since disappeared from the market.
Experience the fascinating spectacle of how high-horsepower tractors with their enormous loads are maneuvered through sharp bends and narrow towns.

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Author:	Thorge Clever
Details:	144 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	370 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2013)
ISBN:	9783861336914

Schwertransporte - Bildarchiv (5)

This fifth and final volume of the picture archive series shows the transports of individual forwarding companies from 1980 to 2000. It is not just the transports that are exciting, but also the technology of the time.
In those pioneering days, it was a sensation if a tractor had 400 hp or a mobile crane had a lifting capacity of 500 t. Such achievements only slowly found their way to the public at the time.

Thorge Clever shows and comments on heavy transports by the following companies: Alborn Dortmund, Baum Cologne, Breuer Hürth, Franke Bremen, Grundt Berlin, Krause Trostberg, Lastra NL, Mammoet NL, Mayer Zweibrücken, Paule Stuttgart, Sauter Frankfurt am Main, Schindler Homburg, Van Seumeren NL and Westfracht Essen.

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Author:	Thorge Clever
Details:	144 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	370 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2018)
ISBN:	9783861338864

Schwertransporte für die Energieindustrie

Everyone needs energy; without it, life according to today's standards is not possible. Despite all the alternative energy, the base load is still generated using the tried and tested method.
The units in the power plants are not only incredibly heavy, they are also huge. Transport is becoming more and more difficult: weak bridges, roundabouts, infrastructure. And it is becoming more and more exciting!

The transformers, generators and turbines are the "big chunks" of heavy transport. Michael Müller has been tracking these transports for 25 years. He presents the results here with a wealth of unique, mostly unpublished photographs.

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Author:	Michael Müller
Details:	280 pages, 11 x 8.25 in (28 x 21 cm), hardback
Illustrations:	660 b&w and color photos
Language:	German
Publisher:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2018)
ISBN:	9783861338857