INVESTING IN FUTURE CHALLENGES

During the last couple of years, the BMS Group hasincluded the haulage company Torben Rafn A/S with 25 tractor units, extendabletrailers, semi-trailers, lowbed trailers, and modular axles. Furthermore, thecompany has a considerable amount of gear for modular axles, such as low beds,tower adaptors, boiler deck, spacers, turntables and bogie equipment.

Most recently Torben Rafn has acquired a low loaderbuilt specially for the transport of construction machinery, crawler cranes,and the like. It is also very suitable when moving transformers and other heavyindustrial goods. The low loader has three axles in front of the
cargo and five axles behind while being pulled by a five-axle tractor unit.

One of the primary tasks of the new low loader was tomove a 93-tons excavator. This machine, which was to be transported about 200 kilometres throughDenmark, gave certain challenges at a height of 5.25 metres, a width of 4.2metres and a length of 30 metres. Along the way, the transport with a combinedweight of 147 tons had to pass a relatively narrow bridge, and a number ofroundabouts had to be taken into account as well.

To lower the excavator parts of it were disassembledand transported separately – and for safety reasons, two pilot cars followedthe low loader throughout the entire journey.