Fascination with heavy haulage: our top 5

Best of heavy haulage

Heavy!

Cordoned off roads, rotating beacons that transform dark areas into yellow seas, huge cargo items, lots of power – heavy transport is fascinating: Here are five of the coolest missions we’ve featured on Roadstars so far.

In another dimension.

In another dimension.

Heavy haulage for a solar park: How several giant tanks roll through Dubai. Some impressive footage from along the route.


Discovering slow pace.

Discovering slow pace.

Heavy haulage sounds like powerful engines and yellow warning lights. That's right. But nothing works without calmness, experience and, above all, team spirit – observations between Glückstadt and Kummerfeld.


On the road with a heavy load.

On the road with a heavy load.

The Airbus A380 is enormous both in the air and on the ground. Capelle’s drivers transport the giant plane through the southwest of France with Arocs and Actros.


Impossible? Not quite.

Impossible? Not quite.

1979: Because a town's main through-road is too narrow, a heavy-duty transport truck resorts to special methods in Tyrol.


Night train.

Night train.

It can pull quite a load: Pete Junttila’s truck was one of the first Arocs up to 250 tonnes – and one of the most powerful trucks on Europe’s roads.


Photos: Jan Potente, Christoph Börries, Svend Pedersen, Daimler Truck AG

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