The cars are secured to the deck of the transporter using a webbing strap over the wheel or suspension components (being careful not to crimp hoses). Loaders or the driver will drive the vehicles onto the carrier and then secure them. Unlike flatbed transporters which are used to carry disabled or non-running vehicles, car transporters don’t have winches. The top deck has been lowered using hydraulics and is ready for loading The top deck is lowered for loading and then raised so that other vehicles can fit underneath (the top deck is loaded first and unloaded last). The ramps on larger carriers are hydraulic. A smaller two-deck transporter tows a flat-deck transport trailer in Moscow, courtesy of Artem SvetlovĪt the rear, there are ramps for loading and offloading cars. Smaller carriers could be part two decks or simply a flat deck transporter. This UK car transporter is a semitrailer pulled by a prime mover, courtesy of Richard Says The larger ones fit seven or eight across two decks, although the actual number depends on how large the cars are that it is carrying, and whether carrying more would exceed the maximum vehicle dimensions. Skeletal design doesn’t provide any protection, but provides more flexibility to fit a larger number of vehicles on the trailer The most common car carriers are a skeletal tube steel design. Depending on the country, care has to be taken not to exceed the maximum height Note how the front ute is stored over the cab. American car carrier transporting eight utes, courtesy of Paul Sullivan. While they are usually a semitrailer pulled by a prime mover, there are shorter rigid trucks with car transporter trailer. A car carrier or car transporter is designed specifically to carry light vehicles (cars, utes and light trucks).
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