The road to success in the USA
Goldhofer equipment masters three challenging transport tasks. Buckingham Heavy Transport, a US company that focuses on oversized and heavylift transport operations, recently completed three projects with equipment from a key manufacturer of heavylift and special transport solutions.
Goldhofer, a long-established company headquartered in Memmingen (Germany), recently increased its presence and performance in the USA. With Goldhofer Inc, based in Florida, as its direct point of contact, and with its trading partners Iloca Services and Pinnacle Trailer Sales, customers will benefit from faster availability of transport solutions and services that include sales, maintenance and the overhaul of vehicles on site.
Buckingham Heavy Transport was established in 1969 and is headquartered in Pennsylvania; it specialises in project management and delivering oversized and heavy loads. On top of this it can also handle special transport tasks in the USA and across borders with Goldhofer products. Buckingham project manager Mike Brovont is pleased that “we’re equipped for a wide variety of ultra-heavy loads with Goldhofer’s heavylift modules.”
Three resounding examples
Buckingham Heavy Transport recently deployed a twelve-axle Goldhofer THP / DC combination, for example, to transport a transformer weighing almost 200 t for a power plant. This Goldhofer unit is characterised by its ability to widen under load and during slow travel.
This leads to reduced transport times and a longer service life with low maintenance. In addition, operations (widening, levelling, steering) are carried out via radio remote control and are therefore extremely user-friendly.
THP / DC modules also showed their strengths in the transport of two pressed parts weighing more than 100 t. The cargo was loaded by a Canadian company, transported by barge to the USA and passed through eight states before being delivered in Texas.
Overcoming a steep embankment
Thanks to a ten-axle THP / DC combination with a gooseneck and a basic width of 14 ft, Buckingham was able to obtain permits for the trip thanks to the high flexibility in vehicle width. The performance of Goldhofer’s PST / SL-E self-propelled tractors with an axle load of 45 t and a tractive force of 180 kN per driven axle line proved itself when transporting a 200 t slug catcher over 80 km.
The key challenge in this task was to load the cargo from a barge onto a PST combination and overcome a steep embankment from the river to the transhipment area.