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Daimler Truck How do you transport a giant, 240-ton mining truck?
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Daimler Truck AG (holding company legal name Daimler Truck Holding AG) is the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, with over 35 main locations worldwide and approximately 100,000 employees. Daimler Truck AG is headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. The Daimler Truck and Daimler Buses divisions include the eight vehicle brands BharatBenz, Freightliner, FUSO, Mercedes-Benz, RIZON, Setra, Thomas Built Buses and Western Star. Daimler Truck is the global market leader in the medium and heavy-duty truck segment with a gross vehicle weight of over 6 tons.
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It always goes back to BMW on this forum somehow, someway. 
Even in the Mercedes section.
Even in the Mercedes section.
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The X5 M50d can probably pull an Airbus A380. The old V10 TDI Touareg pulls the 747 without a problem
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And the M-Class towed a 60 tonnes A319 Airbus in Stuttgart in 2005, when TSA was introduced. In case anyone missed the press release... 
Mercedes-Benz Trailer Stability Assist combats the dreaded fishtailing: Trailer towing made safe
Stuttgart, Jul 07, 2005 Summertime is the traditional school holiday period. In a number of Germany's federal states, the long summer holidays have already begun, with the other states soon to follow. Traffic on the country's major highways is increasing sharply - and with it, so is the number of trailers.
Many of the passenger cars en route to holiday destinations will have a caravan, a boat trailer or a load-carrying trailer in tow. It is important to remember, however, that passenger cars handle very differently with a trailer attached. Pulling away is an unusually sluggish affair, cornering abilities alter and merely taking the time to load the towing vehicle and trailer properly can have a major impact on handling stability.
Most Mercedes-Benz models can be used to tow a trailer without any problems. This is because the engineers take all aspects of trailer towing into account as early as the vehicle design stage. The broad Mercedes-Benz model portfolio includes vehicles with trailer loads for any application, even up to a gross trailer weight of 3.5 tonnes for anyone wishing to take a particularly heavy caravan or a large boat with them on holiday. Customers ordering a factory-fitted trailer coupling will also benefit from a whole package of technical measures which are extremely complex or even impossible to retrofit.
Most of the models in the Mercedes-Benz range are available with a handy, removable trailer coupling and many offer the option of an ultra-convenient, swivelling trailer coupling too. Both the coupling itself and the overall vehicle set-up are subject to extremely tough operating requirements. The M-Class provides a prime example of just how comfortably a Mercedes-Benz handles these requirements: only recently, at Stuttgart Airport, this state-of-the-art four-wheel drive vehicle proved itself capable of pulling an Airbus A319 aeroplane weighing around 60 tonnes with ease.
The factory-fitted package of measures will in future include the new Mercedes-Benz Trailer Stability Assist (TSA). This is an extra function incorporated into the ESP® Electronic Stability Program that is designed to offer drivers even greater safety when towing a trailer. TSA is capable of detecting the dreaded fishtailing motion swiftly and nipping it in the bud effectively. To do this, it uses the ESP® program's own sensory system and initiates precision brake applications at the front left and right wheels individually and alternately to stabilise the car/trailer outfit. TSA will make its debut in the W 221-series Mercedes-Benz S Class, after which it will be made available for further model series successively. It is due to be added to the specification of the M-Class from late August 2005.
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2005/07/07/137043.html
Mercedes-Benz Trailer Stability Assist combats the dreaded fishtailing: Trailer towing made safe
Stuttgart, Jul 07, 2005 Summertime is the traditional school holiday period. In a number of Germany's federal states, the long summer holidays have already begun, with the other states soon to follow. Traffic on the country's major highways is increasing sharply - and with it, so is the number of trailers.
Many of the passenger cars en route to holiday destinations will have a caravan, a boat trailer or a load-carrying trailer in tow. It is important to remember, however, that passenger cars handle very differently with a trailer attached. Pulling away is an unusually sluggish affair, cornering abilities alter and merely taking the time to load the towing vehicle and trailer properly can have a major impact on handling stability.
Most Mercedes-Benz models can be used to tow a trailer without any problems. This is because the engineers take all aspects of trailer towing into account as early as the vehicle design stage. The broad Mercedes-Benz model portfolio includes vehicles with trailer loads for any application, even up to a gross trailer weight of 3.5 tonnes for anyone wishing to take a particularly heavy caravan or a large boat with them on holiday. Customers ordering a factory-fitted trailer coupling will also benefit from a whole package of technical measures which are extremely complex or even impossible to retrofit.
Most of the models in the Mercedes-Benz range are available with a handy, removable trailer coupling and many offer the option of an ultra-convenient, swivelling trailer coupling too. Both the coupling itself and the overall vehicle set-up are subject to extremely tough operating requirements. The M-Class provides a prime example of just how comfortably a Mercedes-Benz handles these requirements: only recently, at Stuttgart Airport, this state-of-the-art four-wheel drive vehicle proved itself capable of pulling an Airbus A319 aeroplane weighing around 60 tonnes with ease.
The factory-fitted package of measures will in future include the new Mercedes-Benz Trailer Stability Assist (TSA). This is an extra function incorporated into the ESP® Electronic Stability Program that is designed to offer drivers even greater safety when towing a trailer. TSA is capable of detecting the dreaded fishtailing motion swiftly and nipping it in the bud effectively. To do this, it uses the ESP® program's own sensory system and initiates precision brake applications at the front left and right wheels individually and alternately to stabilise the car/trailer outfit. TSA will make its debut in the W 221-series Mercedes-Benz S Class, after which it will be made available for further model series successively. It is due to be added to the specification of the M-Class from late August 2005.
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2005/07/07/137043.html
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No doubt this comment will spark a mass debate.
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We are not talking of moving a heavy object for few meters at a speed of 10-30kph...but we are mentioning about some serious heavy pullers which can move 250 tonnes upto speed of 80kph or may be more tonnes by reducing the speed a little for 100s & 1000s of km that too on different gradients.
All new Actros SLT...even though its not heading the power war of European trucks, but SLT's unique turbo clutch can easily pull heavier stuffs than its competition with ease.
Actros SLT 8x8
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The X5 M50d can probably pull an Airbus A380. The old V10 TDI Touareg pulls the 747 without a problem
Power is not everything.
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Exactly!
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