Each of the heavy-duty industrial transporters from SCHEUERLE is 18 meters long, 7.5 meters wide and 1.5 meters high and have been designed to move ship sections weighing up to 500 t for CSBC in Taiwan. Both vehicles are equipped with eight axle lines respectively with two quadruple-tyred pendulum axles in each case which means loads are transported on a total of 64 wheels. The hydrostatic drive guarantees jerk-free setting off and continuously variable acceleration. The precise steering response of the pendulum axle technology developed by SCHEUERLE allows millimeter-exact positioning of the ship sections. In addition, the functional axle compensation automatically provides a uniform distribution of load on all wheels when traveling on uneven surfaces. The steering angle of +/- 165' and the selectable steering programs, such as regular, transverse, diagonal and circle, provide the vehicles with excellent manoeuvrability. The 104 t colossus is steered via a high-tech driver's cab equipped with monitors.
In a spectacular night transportation undertaking, the 2 transporters were transferred from the SCHEUERLE plant in Pfedelbach, Germany to the heavy-load port in Heilbronn. However, this was not carried out using low-bed trailers as is usually the case. The transporters were driven by SCHEUERLE specialists in the cabs 30 km along the motorway and main roads to their destination. After a 4.5-hour trip, the they reached the designated heavy-load quay at the Heilbronn port facility where the vehicles were lifted onto a special pontoon designed to handle extremely heavy loads ' for the journey along the Neckar river, then along the Rhine and Schelde up to Rotterdam. After being re-loaded onto a seagoing vessel, the almost one-month voyage to the final destination of Kaohsiung in Taiwan began via the North Sea and the Suez Canal in Egypt.