container transport
A UPS swap body drawbar combo runnig on a German AUtobahn. The Amerian owned parcel service company is running a large number of similar combos. These bigger units take care of transport between the UPS owned hubs throughout Germany.
Edantra, a Belgian operator, is pulling a three axled container chassis. The rig is loaded with a 20" swap body tank container. The Belgian built van Hool tank container is owned by the Swiss giant Bertschi. The latter runs a large fleet of containers.
The 45" high cube container is a growing success. This container can compete with an average 13,60-meter semi-trailer. The downside is its weight, luckily container chassis are getting lighter. This unit is owned by shipping company A2B-online.
A big cabbed Renault T-series owned by Dutch container operator Niek Dijkstra. The company headquarters is located in Heerenveen in the northern part of Holland. Niek Dijkstra is running a mixed fleet of Volvo, DAF, Renault and Scania rigids and tractors.
Besides heavy and general transport Bolk Almelo is also heavily involved in container transport. This picture is showing one of its Volvo FHs loaded with a 40" MSC box container. The rig could be heading for the company terminal in Hengelo, its running in that direction on the Dutch A1.
Dutch container operator Starmans is running DAF dominated fleet. For comparison, it's using also Volvo and Mercedes trucks. Container transport is the core business of the Kerkrade based haulage company. Its fleet is counting about 90 trucks.
