Truck tractor: brands, photos, prices. Which company is the tractor worth buying?

A truck tractor is a towing vehicle working with long-length semi-trailers. The machine is equipped with a fifth wheel coupling device with a gripping nest, into which the rod of the towed vehicle is inserted.

Power unit

The modern truck tractor has rather high technical characteristics. In the engine compartment of the car is a powerful diesel engine, which allows you to reach speeds of up to 120 km / h.

Advantages and disadvantages

The truck tractor has a number of advantages compared to conventional truck-towing vehicles:

• The semitrailer easily transforms into a trailer, since the saddle device for all cars is the same and allows you to use additional uniaxial trolleys in a road train. Connecting such an intermediate link provides an opportunity to significantly extend the base of the road train.
• On the unloading platform, trailers and semi-trailers can be rearranged from a truck tractor to a special shunting shifter if necessary.
• The interchangeability of tractor and semitrailers is almost 100%, you can change one platform in a matter of minutes with the load to another.
• The fifth wheel tractor can move in reverse and make any maneuvers along with the semitrailer.
• The ability to maneuver when moving forward is much higher than a standard truck with a trailer of the same length.
• The truck tractor has a high efficiency, which allows to significantly increase the efficiency of transportation and reduce their cost price.
• Profitable ratio of own weight to carrying capacity.
• Possibility to transport goods up to 24 meters long.

European and American standards

In the United States, tractors of a hood type are common, when the engine and transmission are located in front of the car, under the hood. European machines are arranged differently: the power plant is located under the cabin. In this case, the saloon loses in comfort, but the review for the driver is just wonderful. Tractors in Europe, as a rule, are biaxial, with a short base. American cars in the vast majority of a three-axle design. This choice is dictated by the desire to increase the carrying capacity. The European truck tractor is equipped with disc ventilated brakes, on American machines only drum mechanisms. The onboard electric network of American trailers operates at a voltage of 12 volts, European machines are standardized for a load of 24 volts.

Volvo, truck tractor

The Swedish automobile company Volvo Trucks Corporation is the second largest truck manufacturer in the world. All models of the concern are characterized by a high level of security and increased comfort. More than a third of its products the company sends to the US, with each vehicle having to accompany a set of services, spare parts and tools, as the unification of Swedish tractors and American trailers in terms of repair kits is zero.

"Volvo" (truck tractor of FH series) is a car for especially distant transportations, equipped with sleeping places, a refrigerator and a mini-kitchen. It is most popular. Cars of the FM series are lighter, designed for short and medium flights between nearby cities and regions. The third category of Swedish tractors, the FL series, is lightweight towing vehicles for transport in the city. Also, these machines work on the removal of garbage, domestic waste and other goods related to public services.

The cars of "Volvo" brand of almost all modifications successfully work in Russia. The machine is super-reliable, relatively inexpensive to maintain, has a wide range of applications.

Power plant on cars "Volvo" - a brand of Cummins. Previously installed Caterpillar and Disel Detroit. Transmission robotic or automatic - ZF-Meritor and Eaton-Fuller.

Tractor of Belarusian manufacture

The towing cars produced by the Minsk Automobile Plant are mainly intended for long-distance trips in an international format. Truck tractor MAZ - This is a modern machine with excellent characteristics, corresponding to the environmental standards of Euro-4. Tractors of Minsk manufacture are equipped with diesel engines YaMZ of various modifications with capacity from 310 liters. With., Allowing to develop speed up to 100 km / h.

The MAZ truck tractor is quite a comfortable car; the cabin is equipped with a sleeping place; the cabin is heated by heating the antifreeze; a special compact radiator with a fan transfers warm air through the deflectors to the lower part of the salon space, from where it spreads evenly throughout the cabin. In the hot time in the car works air conditioning.

The car is assembled according to the European standard, the engine is located under the cabin. However, the latest models of MAZ tractors are produced already in the hood version, as, for example, the MAZ-6440 model.

KamAZ, truck tractor

The Russian company "Truck Holding" produces universal car tows at the plant in Naberezhnye Chelny. Tractors of KamAZ brand are the main vehicles, adapted to work with different platforms. Among them - tipper semi-trailers, cisterns, timber trucks , concrete mixers, lifting cranes-manipulators.

KamAZ (truck tractor) is a reliable economical car with several variants of cabin arrangement. The car is characterized by good sound insulation, moves almost silently. Has a significant tractive force, the carrying capacity of the machine is 62.7 tons.

The operation of the car is accompanied by the support of the manufacturer in the first two years with the guarantee of repair and prevention. Maintenance is also the responsibility of the supplier. Among other things, the service extends to repair and maintenance of the engine under a separate program, regardless of the general scheme of the warranty period.

Cost

A truck tractor is a special-purpose vehicle, its operation is regulated by certain rules, and the efficiency is higher than that of conventional trucks. Therefore, the relatively high cost of the machine is justified by the guaranteed income when it is used.

A truck tractor, the price of which is formed taking into account the year of manufacture and technical condition, can cost from 320 000 to 1.8 million rubles. New truck tractors are evaluated on a different scale. Their cost is determined depending on the equipment. Knowledgeable experts in choosing a car prefer trucks to the brands "Volvo", "Scania" and "Iveco." These cars have proven themselves during their existence.