Trucking Magazine – July 2019

CLASSIC TRUCK CANADIAN SUPER-HEAVIES

HIGH

& MIGHTY

78 TRUCKING Summer 2019 http://www.truckingmag.co.uk

W

hich are the all-time

toughest, hardest

worked heavies?

Logging trucks have to

be prime contenders

• and none more so than those built by
  two Canadian diehards, Hayes and
  Pacific. We are of course talking about
  rigs capable of moving loads of 250-plus

tons in bolster semi-trailer plus drawbar

trailer configuration. And not at walking

pace on tarmac like indivisible load

ballasted prime-movers – which by the

nature of the job are likely to be worked

relatively intermittently.

Then again, such was the quality of

their engineering that Hayes and Pacific

are each credited with some awesome

Canada is not well known for truck manufacturing, but local

conditions led to super-heavies of unsurpassed toughness

By Ed Burrows

PHOTOGRAPHY ARBEGUI SA, DENNIS CHILD, COAST POWERTRAIN/PACIFIC TRUCK MANUFACTURING, BOB DINGSDALE,

PATRICK RUSSELL/ALL AMERICAN TOY COMPANY, NIELS JANSEN, PAUL KEENLEYSIDE, SCOTT MCKENZIE, HANK SUDERMAN/

HANKSTRUCKPICTURES.COM, MARK R WAYMAN

H17, the Hayes HDX driven by

Stephen Drybrough for most of

his career, featured on a 1996

Canadian postage stamp

prime movers (1250 bhp de-rated to

900 bhp, anybody?).

Fifth-wheel logging tractors do their

stuff off-highway, all day, every day, up

and down graded-dirt mountain haul

roads. Strip-mine dumpers might be

contenders for the ‘toughest trucks’

title, though their working environment

has less need for operational fl exibility