GIANT DUMP TRUCK

14th April 2017 By: Martin Creamer - Creamer Media Editor

GIANT DUMP TRUCK

The employee in this picture is dwarfed as she walks past the unfinished chassis of this giant mining dump truck at the Autoworks Belaz OJSC heavy-vehicle plant, in Zhodino, Belarus. Belaz is a major world manufacturer of mining dump trucks of heavy-duty and super-size load capacity, as well as other heavy mining and construction vehicles. This Belaz-7571 series mining dump truck is an ultra-class haul truck that can carry a 450 metric tonne load. Maximum speed is 64 km/h and economy maximum speed, when fully loaded and on a 10% gradient, is 40 km/h.