The World’s Largest Dump Truck
By Sean O'Hara
This is the world’s largest dump truck. There’s nothing on wheels that moves more earth than the 930E-2 by Komatsu. If you ever wanted to drive through a shopping mall while hauling a small office building, this is your rig.
The 930E-2 is 26′ wide by 46′ long and over 21′ feet high. (So much for the KFC drivethru.) It’s made for work in some of the largest mines in the world, and has the girth and power to rightly be named the king of the earth movers with a 319 ton payload capacity and a 16 cylinder, 2,550 horsepower engine.
Oh yeah, and if that’s not cool enough, consider this: You can drive it by remote control from up to 1/8 mile away.
This sort of redefines the concept of “big rig,” does’t it?
930E-3 [Komatsu]
January 4th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
HOLY S***BALLS!
I gotta get me one of those,just for the intimidation factor alone. SUV’s? BAH!
January 4th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
a few years ago wife, son, and I stopped in Sparwood BC to wander around the Terex Titan on display. It was advertised as the largest in the world, 350 ton paylod.
hey I don’t mean to get into a snarky “who’s biggest’ thread, just wanted to say when you are standing beside one of those monsters, they do look pretty cool.
see the titan here in Sparwood’s charmingly hokey website:
http://www.sparwood.bc.ca/titaninf.htm
January 5th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Yes - the Titan’s specs are only slightly lower than those of the Komatsu.
There was only ever one Titan, though, and the Komatsu is a production vehicle.
Wikipedia thinks the Liebherr T 282B is considerably larger, though.
January 5th, 2007 at 6:41 am
What about the Cat 397B? When we ran these trucks, one of the most amazing things was the fuel capacity/demand- easily over 1200 gallon capacity for a mining truck and that usually only makes is through one shift. Clearly a tool that you want to have making money full-time and not idling around.
January 5th, 2007 at 6:46 am
The ability to drive it by remote is pretty damn cool. I’ve seen little trench soil compactors with remotes, which look like they’d beat the crap out of plastic R/C cars if they could catch them. I’d imagine top speed on the Komatsu is a bit higher!
Show up at the R/C race park with one of these…
February 7th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Actually, when we use the term ‘largest’, referring to overall size-not capacity, the Titan still has them all beat-by a pretty large margin.
(dimensions rounded)
Terex Titan
L-65′
W-26′
H-23′
Capacity-350T
Cat 797B
L-48′
W-30′
H-22′
Capacity-380T
Liebherr T282B
L-47′
W-28′
H-24′
Capacity-400T
So the Liebherr has the capacity trophy, but all, including the Titan, greatly outclass the Komatsu. While some of these manufacturers ‘claim’ to have the largest truck, they are leaving out such details as largest PRODUCTION truck, or largest capacity, etc. At least Liebherr says theirs is the largest single axle truck, which of course saves them from being compared to the dual axle Titan, which is, in fact, bigger.
March 25th, 2007 at 12:02 am
my bung is itchy, but theys sum huge truks
May 13th, 2007 at 7:28 am
oh my god!!! if i had just 1 wish it would be to drive the biggest dump truck there is. they make me wet just looking at them!!!!
May 13th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I would love to have one of these and meet a gd Hummer on a unlit two lane highway late at night,lets see who intimadates who.Drive the sob Hummer into the pig s**t.
October 11th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
In the world of big mining trucks there is really only one stat matters and that happens to be the tonnage it can haul. Mine operators don’t really care if one truck is wider, taller or longer than the next. That’s because, all other things being equal, the more rock you move, the more money you can make.
Liebherr currently holds the record for trucks that are actually in use. The 282b has a capacity of 400 Tons or 360 metric tons. That being said, Terex revealed a truck, the MT 6300AC, this spring that marginally outclasses the Liebherr 282b. It has a capacity of 362 metric tons.
January 10th, 2008 at 4:52 am
this is bullshit,currently liebher make the largest dump truck in the world,with a payload of 360 tons
February 4th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
these truck are so cool i would love to have one just to drive arund….
April 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
They are fun to drive around! I work for a large haul truck manufacturer as an engineer. I get to drive our test trucks every now and then.
The amount of published load capacity is usually always based on a 10% overload factor - meaning the trucks can actually handle loads of 10% more than the claimed number. I’ve seen data from our load weighing system that have shown loads of around 450 short tons!
However, the limiting factor that determines the amount a truck can haul isn’t the drive system or dump body, but rather the amount of weight the tires can handle. Lighter trucks mean more available payload capacity. Currently, there are only two major suppliers for OEM haul truck tires - Michelin & Bridgestone. Until they make a bigger/more robust tire - don’t expect to see bigger 2-axle trucks.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I meant 1-axle…hehehe… Although, the new TI274 has 2.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I love the quote on the Wikipedia page for the Liebherr:
The truck costs about US$ 3.5 million. CD-player and air conditioning systems are optional
Yeah, because when you’re spending 3.5 million on a vehicle, you really care about another $750. How much of a pathological beancounter would you have to be to decline those options? Better question: why aren’t they standard?
cl
April 10th, 2008 at 1:45 am
A:Considering how many mines that are in extreme north, A/C definitely wouldn’t be necessary. B: With all of the hazards in and around mines and communication being of utmost importance when maneuvering a piece of equipment this large I can see where companies don’t want distracted operators.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:15 am
I don’t see auto manufacturers offering A/C even as a delete option, much less a tick-the-box-and-pay-extra option, on cars sold in Alaska, and we’re talking about something that’s two to four orders of magnitude MORE expensive here, which means the A/C is an even smaller percentage of the overall cost on the mining trucks.
Don’t discount the idea that the cabs might be hot even in northern climes, however; that enormous diesel engine has to dump its fairly significant heat load somewhere, and I’d be willing to wager the cab doesn’t need a heater option
I agree with you about the distractions, which still raises the question of why a CD player is even offered.
cl
June 14th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
This is one monster of a truck. See the man standing near it. 21 feet high means about the height of 4 persons.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:57 am
ya..truely!!! its a monster truck..
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:53 am
THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT IS THAT EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE QUOTING THE MFGR’S. SPECS. The Terex Titan was consistently loaded to 550 us tons. lets get some realtime info
November 11th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Really a gigantic truck. Komatsu have 930 E also.