Anyone with even a rudimentary interest in technology is bound to be interested in the special vehicles of the commercial vehicle industry. As a leading partner to special vehicle manufacturers, BPW wants to capture this interest, enthusiasm and variety within the industry and present it online on its own website, to appeal both to laypeople and professionals.
As a market leader for special axles and running gear systems, the family-owned company, BPW, based in Wiehl, North Rhine-Westphalia is getting the ball rolling on the most spectacular feats of engineering in the commercial vehicle sector: on hundreds of axles, they transport wind turbine blades, bridge components, pre-assembled modules of industrial plants and even passenger ships between locations. The market for special vehicles is growing and the boom in wind power, the renewal of roads, bridges and motorways and the movement towards pre-assembled components all ensure that vehicle industry order books will be well filled, even in times of crisis.
But how is it that today more and more ever larger and heavier goods – even things that were long considered untransportable – are being moved via the road? BPW explains it all on a new, independent website: spezialachsen.bpw.de/en. First launched at industry trade fair Bauma in October, BPW shared the wide range of special vehicles on the site, as well as the technical solutions that these vehicles can mobilise. For each type of vehicle from Low loader trailers and Module transporters or Plateau semi-trailers to solutions for Gardening and landscaping, BPW shows which axles and running gear technologies are possible today. At the same time, it shows how a customised chassis solution is developed, step by step, together with the vehicle manufacturer. Exciting real-life examples are continually added to illustrate the industry’s achievements: photo reports, for example on the Transport of a 70 year old horse chestnut tree of a 6-axle modular vehicle in the Netherlands or of two 124-meter passenger ships on 200 special axle lines with 1,600 wheels in Turkey, combining information with entertainment value.
Peter Lindner, Sales Director of Customised Solutions at BPW: “Special vehicle construction is the poster child of German engineering, and it’s worthy of more public attention. With the new website, spezialachsen.bpw.de, we want to convey the fascinating impact and power of our industry to our customers, partners, employees and the media. At the same time, we have been able to bring our trade fair presentation at Bauma in Munich online to be accessed throughout the year. We are also consistently updating our website with current reports on spectacular feats of transport; so it’s worth checking in every now and then.”
