Wecon Revised through-loading device

With high flexibility and the inclination for easy and practicable constructions, Wecon (hall 27, booth F23, outside area S47) has been shaping the swap body market for decades. The company wins points with its through-loading device on the tandem-curtain-sider semitrailer „Prince“at the IAA. New is the lifting aid’s execution via gas pressure springs: Wecon developed a special storage for the gas pressure springs on the release mechanism. The result is the completely free through-loading width in the bulkhead area. Damage to the lifting support during the overrun on a width of 2,480 millimeters is now impossible. A further feature of the new through-loading device is the little required package space: through the optimized order of the release mechanism, 38 pallet spaces can be occupied with fixed- and swap body superstructures, resulting in one pallet more than usual for through-loading trailers.

Concept Wecon-Imperator

 Train-loaded trailers are often damaged or robbed. The previous alternative of transportation with swap body superstructures, however, sets clear limits for pre- and post-rail hauls in terms of transportable weights. The concept Wecon-Imperator reacts to this: with its closed system container chassis of 3,500 kilograms dead weight, its swap body superstructure with 4,200 kilograms, as well as its tractor unit with 7,200 kilograms, it clears the way for new, cost-effective transportation variants.

With 34 Euro-pallet spaces (13,620 millimeters inside) and 29.1 tons payload, the pre- and post-rail hauls are also possible for many other goods, like beverage hauls, within the permissible weight limits. Also important is the low capital expenditure: With a lifespan of up to 20 years, the lifespan-costs of swap bodies clearly have an advantage to semitrailers, which frequently exceed their average life cycle after ten to twelve years.