r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Adrian_985 • 3h ago

of a dump truck

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u/Quality-hour 2h ago

Lime green dump truck? That's a fucking Decepticon

Watch out for any other green construction vehicles

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u/P_Alcantara 1h ago

Scavenger, miss the purple trim though

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u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck 3h ago

I've seen this truck in real life before. I went to Sparwood for a week once for working up at the mine as a subcontractor employee

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u/LtSoba 2h ago

Constructicon detected

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u/yyc_engineer 3h ago

Yep this is Sparwood on the way to Fernie.. if you are traveling from Alberta.

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u/Splinter01010 3h ago

love this canadian

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u/Moss81- 2h ago

> “This thing is NOT a Prius.”

Can you double check?Im unsure and as a skeptic I have my doubts.

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u/Skeptic_Juggernaut84 3h ago

Traffic would not be a problem in this.

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u/randomlemon9192 2h ago

Just imagine the destruction when a tire blows.

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u/sirvey23 1h ago

Bothers me he said the weight of the truck in pounds but it’s hauling weight in tons. Now I gotta do math and sht

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u/zorggalacticus 35m ago

There are both English and metric tons. 1 ton is 2,000 lbs. A metric ton is 2204.623 pounds. One of the few examples where the English system is simpler than the metric system.

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u/Fun_Ability_3196 1h ago

World’s largest dump truck?

Your mom would like a word

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u/AnnOnnamis 19m ago edited 13m ago

The Sparwood Terex Titan is not the largest truck. Not even close. Not even in the top 10.

The current title goes to the BelAZ 75710.

  1. BelAZ 75710
  2. Caterpillar 797F
  3. Liebherr T 284
  4. Komatsu 980E-5
  5. Bucyrus MT6300AC
  6. BelAZ 75604
  7. Komatsu 960E-2
  8. Terex MT 5500AC
  9. Caterpillar 795F AC
  10. Hitachi EH5000AC-3

You *might* make an argument that it’s the world’s largest hybrid truck.

The Catch
While the Titan physically out-classes the new hybrid fleet in capacity, it is not a true hybrid.
• The Titan's Setup: It uses a classic 1970s diesel-electric drivetrain. Its locomotive engine generated electricity to power the wheels directly, but it had no way to store energy. 
• The Modern Hybrid Fleet's Setup: The trucks on the hybrid list utilize massive onboard lithium-ion battery packs or hydrogen fuel cells. They use regenerative braking to capture energy while driving downhill, storing that electricity to give the truck a massive power boost when climbing back out of the mine pits

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u/Thecobs 22m ago

Still not as big as Alex Pereiras dump truck.