Car carrier trailer

A car transporter in Europe is a truck can be transported in the car. In a narrower sense to tow, even if they can not transport cars as vehicles plateau, usually not considered car transporter, but only heavier commercial vehicles that can transport several cars at once.

Today, this is usually a tractor with trailer kurzgekuppeltem. Kurzgekuppelt means that the trailer hitch is mounted directly behind the rear axle of the towing vehicle. Therefore, such a tag has a significantly longer drawbar than an ordinary articulated trailer. However, a kurzgekuppelter followers have a shorter distance to the towing vehicle, which of course in a car transporter is advantageous must have a continuous driving ramp from the trailer to the towing vehicle. The trailer can be a single or a twin axle ( tandem axle ) and have single or twin tires ( double wheels ).

Use

Car transporters are conspicuous by various lifting platforms, hydraulic or by threaded screws to adjust the charge, so car of all kinds, according to the countries in which is transported to the force there height and length regulations. A car transporter is mainly designed for the transport of cars to transport tractors truck, or large agricultural equipment, there are special transporter types without second loading level and according to the size of the transport vehicle's oversized cargo gear ( chains and tensioning straps ).

The loading is typically accomplished as follows: First, the upper level of the truck is loaded, then the lower level. The loading is usually done by a so-called drive-through on ramps through or over the trailer to the towing vehicle. There are trucks with payload of one to ten cars. There are typically in heavy traffic eight to ten vehicles payload. Car transporters are always loaded in a double system, for example, with four cars in the upper loading area and four cars in the lower load range.

Special loading, for example, a 10- train with correspondingly smaller vehicles, or a negative stacking, that is, the there to be loaded cars on the upper loading stage of the towing vehicle, after fixation in the brackets, together with the lift down ( negative) tilted so that for a third vehicle which is moved up against the second car up on ramps, space is created. This assumes that the first loading bay is fixed with the corresponding vehicle in the lower speed range behind the cab of the tractor already for transport. This also applies to the first car on the upper deck. This must be loaded and secured logically before the negative to be stacked cars.

In area countries like USA, Canada or Australia Car Transporter are correspondingly larger.

Entire train

Typical car transporter

Closed

The Mercedes- Renntransporter

2001 was at the company MIKA GmbH in Mölln unique, the mimics also a single car transporters 1954. He had " The Blue Wonder " said carriage with style elements from Mercedes- SL sports car then racing car W 196 and 300 SLR on the loading area. After the withdrawal from motorsport 1955 up to 170 km / h was fast vehicle no longer needed and finally scrapped in 1967. At the birthday celebration for the 100th anniversary of Mercedes- Benz brand in 2001, the company introduced the replica.

As a replica from 2001