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Breakdown truck and an Excavator

Ericdravancrow · 2016-09-09 17:36:08

I was in traffic today, a breakdown lorry was turning the corner with a medium sized tracked Excavator on it, I honestly thought the lorry was going to flip over as it turned. Would the breakdown lorry be rated to carry a machine like this, I'd say it was easily a 16ton Excavator?

09-09-2016 5:36pm

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Ericdravancrow

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I was in traffic today, a breakdown lorry was turning the corner with a medium sized tracked Excavator on it, I honestly thought the lorry was going to flip over as it turned.
Would the breakdown lorry be rated to carry a machine like this, I'd say it was easily a 16ton Excavator?

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#2 09-09-2016 7:54pm

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A medium sized excavator would not be 16 ton. But judging by your description it appears he was definitely over weight limit.

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#3 09-09-2016 8:24pm

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The break down truck might be plated to 18 tons but that would mean the excavator would need to be about 7-8 tons max.

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#4 10-09-2016 8:16am

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If anything it was top heavy, as the lorry was dangerously tilting as it turned..it should be on a low loader trailer.

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