BPW TrailerTimes: The world of trailer technology

Quality from BPW: How vehicle manufacturers and fleet operators benefit

Commercial vehicle fleets can only remain competitive with reliable, durable and economical vehicles. Within the BPW Group, comprehensive quality management across the entire development and production process and beyond ensures the high quality of BPW products such as running gear systems and trailer body components.

Brexit slowdown:

Why the United Kingdom is imposing stricter requirements on trailers and how BPW is providing optimal support to transport companies

Heavy duty, feather-light

Lightweight construction, successfully deployed in South Africa: the BPW LightTube trailing arm in practical use How can an ultra-light trailer air suspension boost the success of a South African agricultural logistics company? BPW’s lightweight components prove their worth even in the harshest operating conditions – positioning them as the new industry standard worldwide

BPW TrailerTimes

Expert knowledge and innovations from the world of trailer technology

BPW TrailerTimes is the multimedia content platform from BPW Bergische Achsen KG that provides exciting insights into the world of truck trailers, truck semitrailers, trailer technologies, transport and logistics. BPW TrailerTimes offers background knowledge, explanations, expert interviews, videos and infographics on truck trends and developments, new truck trailers and semi-trailer technologies and current topics from the transport industry. The focus is primarily on economical, sustainable, forward-looking and individual transportation and transport solutions.

Transport like no other: from the shipyard hall to the dock on the megayacht

The precise manoeuvring of the heaviest and oversized loads in the smallest of spaces is a task for self-propelled module transporters. Italian heavy-lift logistics company Marraffa demonstrates the strengths of the concept and the benefits of high-quality trailers when transporting an oversized ship’s hull from the shipyard to the harbour basin.

The ePower generator axle in the ultimate endurance test

Special axles – millimetres make all the difference

Low-loader trailers are specialist vehicles equipped with running gear featuring multiple special axles, enabling them to handle heavy loads and achieve impressive feats. Christian Hoene, Product Manager for Customised Solutions at BPW, understands how to make the most of customer projects with customised running gear solutions from BPW.

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Sustainable and economical: Refurbishment prepares trailers for a second service life

Heavy transport through the desert

Vehicle and service management solutions offer immediate relief

Cape Cool: ePower generator axle in use – How South Africa drives the Sustainable Cold Chain Revolution

Big Picture

On 96 wheels to the destination

12 BPW axles and 96 wheels of a self-propelled heavy-duty module were directed by the employee of Hofmann Kran-Vermietung GmbH & Co. KG used his control panel for this transport: When these 63.50-meter rotor blades were driven to a wind turbine in the Saarlouis district, he ran behind the transporter to skillfully maneuver it past obstacles such as lampposts, power lines and closely packed houses. The transport took around three hours to cover the seven-kilometer distance, with four Hofmann employees accompanying it. The company has been operating as a truck-mounted crane rental company since 1962 and is regarded as a strong partner, particularly by manufacturers of wind turbines and companies in the reinforced concrete construction or large-scale industry sectors, whose technical equipment can cope with even the heaviest loads, high unit weights and large dimensions. (Photo: Hofmann)

Timber transport of superlatives

This semi-trailer combination can carry more than 144 tonnes of logs over selected routes in the Kaingaroa Forest, the largest forest on the North Island of New Zealand. The “Kenworth C509 6×4 Day Cab” pulls three semi-trailers with a total of twelve BPW axles and can thus carry up to 50 percent more timber than a double combination. At 53 metres long, it is also the largest combination on the road in the region – and also the longest vehicle ever tested by the national magazine “NZ Truck & Driver”.(Photo: Rotorua Forest Haulage)