Mercedes-Benz Trucks Presents New Heavy-Duty Tractors
OREANDA-NEWS. Mercedes-Benz Trucks has saved the best for last: With the presentation of the "king" class of its heavy-duty trucks, Mercedes-Benz brought its Euro VI offensive to a close. The company is now displaying the heavy-duty Mercedes-Benz Actros SLT and Mercedes-Benz Arocs SLT trucks for the first time.
These customized trucks can move up to 250 tons; this enables them to transport wind turbines, for example. The amount of work involved in customizing a truck is enormous, as the vehicle has to be fitted with stronger frames, additional axles, highly efficient cooling systems, a special clutch to help get the truck moving, and a high-performance braking system. And these are only the most important conversion tasks.
A stationary presentation is being held at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Worth. Mercedes-Benz Trucks is displaying an Actros SLT with comfortable air suspension for road use as well as an Arocs SLT with a robust parabolic spring for tough assignments in extreme terrain.
Production of the trucks began in December 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Molsheim, France, which serves as the base of Custom Tailored Trucks, or CTT for short. The plant fulfills even the most unusual wishes of truck customers from all over the world.
Nothing was left to chance during the development of the new Mercedes-Benz SLT. The experts extensively tested every detail, because vehicles in this market segment have to be extremely reliable. The trucks have a total towing weight of 250 tons, and the semi-trailers are often more than 50 meters long. In addition, these vehicles may generally only be driven at night. Despite all of this work and complexity, the number of such extreme-duty transports is steadily increasing. Since 1995, they have tripled in Bavaria, which is the only German state to record the number of these shipments.
Stefan Buchner, Head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks, is convinced that the new SLT will do a great job even in extreme situations. "Such oversized loads are almost unsurpassed in their complexity," he says. "We're putting the most powerful and robust Mercedes-Benz trucks of all time on the road to perform the shipping industry's toughest jobs. The SLT is tailored to these requirements, down to the last detail."
The three or four-axle tractors feature Euro VI technology and are powered by the new OM 473 six-cylinder inline engine with 15.6 liters of displacement and 460 kW/625 hp of output. The maximum torque is 3,000 Nm. The 16-speed PowerShift transmission, which is found in no other heavy-duty tractor, enables finely coordinated shifting. The retarder and the engine brake have a combined braking power of 720 kW (979 hp). And that doesn't even include the power of the normal service brake.
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