Machines used in civil engineering and road construction such as pavers, milling machines, rollers, wheel loaders, excavators etc. often have to be loaded and transported on trailers. Loading and securing – including construction site barriers – should be done quickly. Downtime on the road costs you a lot of money, especially as pavers, for example, cannot be loaded onto just any trailer. It is therefore worth paying attention to the quality of the trailer.

Pavers in particular have such low ground clearance that they can only be driven onto low-loaders with a drive-on angle of approx. 10° without any problems. We have the solution!

For milling machines, it makes sense to secure the loading conveyor quickly; for rollers, on the other hand, access is made easier if a rubber coating is fitted to the ramps. We have the solution!

Construction site barriers and construction machinery must be stowed and secured in a back-friendly manner. We have the solution!

In our more than 60 years of company history, we have received many requests from customers for the optimum trailer for road construction applications. We have compiled some of the successful implementations of customized vehicles in this brochure:

Brochure 2024: Everything for Road construction (german)!

With our many years of experience, we will be happy to advise you on how the trailer should be equipped and designed to transport your machines. Tell us about your machines and your requirements – and we will be happy to offer you a customized low-loader or tipper.

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Some machines are so difficult to load due to their length, wheelbase or ground clearance that only tiltable low-loaders with a level driveway and minimum drive-on angle are suitable for transportation. This is the case with this machine – a Ruthmann Steiger:

We have developed a type 1020/10500 low-loader especially for such machines, which is very easy and quick to operate! The loading platform is tilted electro-hydraulically and the ramps are lowered. The result is a straight loading surface with a drive-on angle of just 8.6°.

 

Tilting the cargo bed is done in seconds: there is a radio remote control or a cable remote control. The power supply to the towing vehicle is established via a 2-pin NATO socket. The laterally sliding ramps have been made narrower for the riser so that the basket fits between the ramps.

Everything is made to measure and fit exactly for this machine!

 

The countdown is on! In just under 70 days from July 2024, all newly registered vehicles must be equipped with a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS). This is regulated in UN ECE-R141. The main requirement in the regulation: if a tyre pressure loss of 20% or a malfunction occurs, the driver must receive a warning in the cab within 10 minutes.

What is this supposed to achieve?

More safety on our roads! The RDK/TPMS warns the driver of problems in real time and thus helps to prevent accidents.
Greater efficiency! The correct tyre pressure makes the tyre more efficient and durable, reducing downtime and maintenance costs.
Sustainability! The right tyre pressure optimises fuel consumption and therefore reduces costs.

Our important message to you: we are well prepared for this and have had our vehicles tested and approved with the new equipment!
In our price list valid since March 2024, we have included the necessary equipment for tyre pressure monitoring.

This necessary equipment will be

Each wheel must be fitted with a sensor.
A control unit is required as an electronic interface to the brake system for the sensor messages
Communication between the control unit and the towing vehicle requires an electronic braking system (EBS)

We have tested and approved TPMS systems from various manufacturers for our low-loaders and tippers. We start with the following equipment and offer the following solution for our vehicles for the implementation of UNECE R-141:

1. as we need maximum flexibility with regard to tyre sizes or manufacturers in order to be able to meet the various customer requirements, we will start with a system with screw-on valves from BPW. This means that the valve sensors can simply be unscrewed and reused in the event of defective tyres. If the batteries in the sensors fail, it is easier to replace them without removing the tyre cover. Replacement wheels do not have to be fitted with sensors, but can simply be retrofitted.

 

However, the vehicle owner still needs to know that each sensor must be electronically assigned to a wheel! Otherwise he will constantly receive error messages.

Re 2: The BPW control system we have installed offers entry into telematics and thus a great additional benefit through digital data retrieval: detailed information on tyre pressure and temperature, retrieval and monitoring of EBS data, alarm settings, introduction of a digital maintenance calendar, retrieval of the vehicle position, etc. are possible

Re 3: The electronic interface also requires an EBS brake system – in other words, older ABS brake systems are a thing of the past. The required tyre pressure control cannot be implemented via this. All air-braked low-loaders and tippers will have to be equipped with EBS brake systems in the future!

The use of EBS brake systems in combination with parabolic spring units is rather exotic on the market and can lead to technical problems. However, as we have been using EBS brake systems in our trailers over 10 tonnes since 2013 and have already gained a lot of experience in this area, this changeover will not be a major challenge for us!

All 8.9 tonne low-loaders and tippers now come with automatic parking and spring-loaded brakes as standard! The 8.9t vehicles can also be ordered loaded to 9.5t GG – only the tyres change. The customer automatically has 600kg more payload.

It is not possible to equip the 5-tonne vehicles with spring-loaded brakes, as the appropriate cylinders are not available. They are still supplied with crank brakes, but are also fitted with the EBS brake system.

 

Since the desire of many construction companies to transport heavy construction machinery with three-way tippers with large single tyres and thus to have a universally usable trailer is unbroken, our development department completely revised the design of the single-tyre tandem three-way tipper last year and developed a very low and thus safe and easy-to-load tipper:
our type 890/18000-2 with wide tyres 385/55 R 22.5 and a loading area length of 5.50m has a loading height of only 1.13m – although it has 10t ramp rails inserted under the loading area! This low loading height combined with long ramp rails ensures an extremely acceptable ramp angle of 17°!

Drive-up angle of 17°, ramps with 10t load capacity per pair, weight per ramp: 66kg

With the standard loading area length of 5.50m and 600mm high drop sides, it has a loading volume of 8m³. The loading volume is sufficient for 14.6t of limestone ballast, 12t of topsoil or 12.5t of gravel. Extendable aluminium loading rails with 10t load capacity are inserted under the tipper bridge with HARDOX floor – 12t ramps (72kg/ramp) are also possible with unchanged loading height! This means that even common 10-12t excavators or wheel loaders can be loaded easily. The load floor height is kept extremely low at 1.13m, but thanks to the wide tyres it has a high ground clearance for driving in gravel pits or uneven terrain, for example.

Swinging wing door: Ramps do not need to be put down before hanging!

A completely new feature is the possible design of the rear drop side as a swinging wing door. With this option, the annoying putting down of the ramps is no longer necessary! This tailgate can also be operated very conveniently via our new automatic tailgate opening. We have chosen a pneumatic solution: when tipping backwards, two pneumatic valves give the signal to a cylinder to open or close the hooks at the rear. The valves are supplied via the trailer’s compressed air system. No further connections are necessary!

Prospekt Dreiseitenkipper 890-18000-2

 

This is also how our tipper type 890/18000-2 can be used: equipped with an asphalt thermal container for road construction! The asphalt container was built by our long-standing partner ATC-Richter from Hessisch-Lichtenau and is easily removable if the tipper is to be used for transporting machinery or bulk materials.

A trailer really cannot be used more universally!

  

  

Cordula und Joachim Wenzel, Michael Raderkopp, Christian Quiring, Jonas Voßebürger und Frank Hüttmann

  

As we informed you last year, from July 2022 all newly registered vehicles will require a reinforced and tested underrun protection in accordance with ECE R58-03. Here you find our information on this topic: New underrun protection for tippers, low bed trailers with slide-in ramps and platform trailers

The design and acceptance of the new URP for low-loaders with fixed ramps presented us (and many other vehicle manufacturers as well) with a major challenge and was not easy to implement. We had set ourselves the premise of retaining our proven and popular ramp spring lifting mechanism with the springs underneath the loading area. This is extremely robust, low-maintenance, adjustable, low risk of injury and easy to use. And the protection of the vulnerable lighting system should be guaranteed as best as possible.

We have now completely succeeded in this: see the parade of Blomenröhr low loaders and tippers in a new look with tested underride protection in accordance with ECE R58-03!

Tandem low bed trailer model 688/18000 with reinforced underrun protection in accordance with ECE R58-03

Tandem two-way tipper model 895/11900 with reinforced underrun protection in accordance with ECE R58-03

Tandem low bed trailer model 695/11900 with inserted ramps – and new UFS

Tandem three-way tipper and low-loader model 884/11900 with new underrun protection and complete LED equipment as well as LED auxiliary rear lights

So that the lighting (whether with light bulbs or as full LED equipment) is very well protected, it will be installed in the URP in the future. The same applies to the number plate with lighting, which must still be clearly visible. The necessary lane keeping/position lights are attached to the side of the URP so that the wiring is well protected in the UFS. If dirt accumulates in the URP, it can be flushed out through the slots in the floor.

In the future, all UFS will receive a label with a test certificate and release number:

This means that we can continue to deliver all vehicles with COC/EG type approval!

Blomenröhr Fahrzeugbau GmbH, 15.7.2022

 

Since September 1rst, 2021, new legal requirements for rear underrun protections (RUP) have been in effect for trailers with EC type approval – and from July 2022 also for vehicles with individual TÜV approval.

That is why our tippers, low bed trailers with inserted ramps, chassis and also flatbed vehicles will soon have a new, elegant design at the rear! We designed our own RUP for our vehicles and had it checked and approved by the TÜV Nord. Here you can see what our vehicles (without fixed ramps) will look like in the future and what advantages the new RUP offers you:

So that the sensitive and expensive lighting (here LED lights) is still well protected, it will be installed in the RUP in the future. The same applies to the number plate with lighting, which will still be clearly visible. The necessary lane warning / position lights are attached to the side of the RUP so that the wiring is well protected in the RUP. If dirt collects in the RUP, it can be rinsed out through the slots in the floor!

You can read more information on the subject of why a new underrun protection must be attached to trailers and what is changing here according to R58-03 in our “Infothek” (available only in German):

Wieso gibt es einen neuen Unterfahrschutz bei Anhängern? Was ändert sich beim Unterfahrschutz gemäß R58-03?

 

Road marking machines with a very long wheelbase and low ground clearance can only be loaded on special low-loaders. Each machine is individually configured by the respective manufacturer for the needs of the customer – special attachments are the order of the day. Since frequent loading and moving of the machines is part of the daily work program, it must be possible to secure the machines quickly and easily.

At the request of road marking companies, we have already designed and built a number of low loaders in a wide variety of sizes: experience has shown that the machines require an approach angle of approx. 9 ° and a very flat kink point so that they do not get stuck when approaching. For smaller machines with a dead weight of 3000-6000kg, a drive-through low loader is usually sufficient, which is equipped with particularly long ramps and an extended ramp. The maximum width between the drop sides is 2.03 m here.

See in our brochure which of our vehicle types can be used for the transport of your machine and which equipment variants are available!
Prospekt Tieflader für Fahrbahnmarkierungs-Maschinen Innenbreite 2,m

Further information can also be found on our homepage under special vehicles:Link to our homepage “special vehicles”

or you can watch a video, how quickly and easily our low loader can be loaded with a road marking machine!    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyJUKorG6Iw

The low loader can be offered with or without a tarpaulin structure, with a closed tail lift or individual ramps, with warning lighting by means of speed cameras or rotating beacons and with a bolt or maneuvering coupling on the front wall to secure the machine.

For heavier road marking machines or those that require a drive-through width of more than 2.0 m, we have designed an innovative low-loader with a tiltable loading area with a continuous drive-on angle of 9 °. Using an electric hydraulic pump, the front loading area is raised in no time by two hydraulic cylinders, which enables a wide variety of marking machines to be loaded very conveniently and quickly. The loading of machines up to a dead weight of 7300kg / 7800kg (without / with tarpaulin structure) is possible on this low loader.

Here, too, there are some special equipment variants. For example, it is possible to easily raise the ramps using an electrohydraulic pump, attach the pin coupling to various positions on the bulkhead or use the low-loader without a tarpaulin roof frame:

You find our matching brochure here: ankippbarer Tieflader Typ 1020/10500

We only use components from well-known manufacturers for all of our low-loaders! This significantly extends the service life of the low-loader and ensures a fast and reliable supply of spare parts. The robust frame construction and the excellent paintwork are also decisive for a long service life. The steel components are all welded and not riveted or bolted. We are happy to take your wishes and requirements for special equipment into account – if you have a need, simply contact us for a non-binding offer.

After the cancelation of the Galabau 2020 in Nürnberg, we would happily like to see customers and interested parties from the construction industry soon again at a trade fair or exhibition. We already registered for the Demopark in Eisenach last year, which was originally supposed to take place at the end of June 2021. For good and well-known reasons, the Demopark has now been postponed to the end of September 2021 (September 26-28, 2021). We hope so and keep our fingers crossed that it can really take place!

At this open-air exhibition, which takes place on the wide grounds of Kindel Airport near Eisenach, not only machines that are polished to a high gloss are shown, but they are also demonstrated in action.

Here are a few impressions of the Demopark 2017:

In September 2021 there is another fair in Belgium scheduled where we have shown our products for years and for which we plan already ahead:

MATEXPO 21
8-12. September – Kortrijk Xpo

Bauma 2022 is just around the corner as the next exciting major trade fair!Here, too, we have already registered, are planning new products and equipment and hope that visitors from near and far will be able to visit the fair again.

33rd Edition of the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment
April 4–10, 2022 | Messe München

We hope to meet you there!