CCT-N 20 foot transport vehicle (old technology)
An excellent vehicle that suits NATO as you can create a simple terminal anywhere along the train line. The car here equipped with Ants transfer equipment to handle 20 foot units. If you do not have the requirement for speed, and do not have the requirement for both distribution truck, railcar and transfer unit to be in place simultaneously, this can be a solution for military needs.
The CCT truck with the previous version of the body. It could handle 20-foot containers or swap bodies. It was tested in extensive tests internally at Volvo Trucks' production facilities in Gothenburg.
It was driven in 6 months of daily traffic with components to the production facilities. It was then loaned out in othertransport relations.
The picture shows one of the stations internally at Volvo. The frame that is on is on a swap body chassis that was moved into the production, with goods and everything.
The frame is built to fit on a railway wagon and can be placed in the container pins that are on the jvg wagon
The picture on the left shows tests that were carried out to be able to perform a reload on a sloping and poor surface. The truck adjusts its position and a transfer can take place even under these conditions.
This makes it easy for the military to create reloading points almost anywhere along the train line.
The requirement is that the truck must be able to come up alongside the railway wagon. This means that there are many possibilities to create a simple terminal along the train line.
A very important thing that we learned from our prototype and many tests was that: Where there were requirements for speed, regular traffic and low terminal costs, the following was required: The handling equipment should be on a separate vehicle and be attached to the terminal and not to the distribution vehicle. With the transfer mechanism on the distribution vehicle, a mutual dependence is created and requires that both the railway wagon and the transfer vehicle be on site at the same time. Otherwise, costly additional costs arise. That is why we have created the new ant that is completely autonomous and only operates at the terminal!
The sketch above shows 2 Ants at work. Here the flexible design is shown, where two ants (blue in the picture) handle 20-foot units. There are also possibilities for two 20-foot Ants to cooperate and unload, or load, a 40-foot container. Then there are developed Ants that directly handle 40-foot containers.
The working transfer mechanism can be moved so that it only takes a 20-foot unit. There are many possibilities to meet all requirements for handling different load units, and with different weights. The condition is that the load units follow the ISO standard for the attachment points.
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