TCR team including President, Jim Taylor, Jr., along with Michael Patterson, Kaleb Gillman and Benny Cox spent a week in Germany late July 2013 to learn operational knowledge on the

About the Purchase
Taylor Crane & Rigging, will soon take delivery of a large fleet of heavy transport equipment. Jim Taylor Jr, decided to get into the multi wheel transport business and considered various manufacturers. Kamag K25 trailers are the newest design for this type of trailer. With axles every 5 ft. and a capacity of 45.6 tons per axle, the K25 is the highest capacity trailer on the market. Taylor purchased 32 axles with a total capacity of over 1,500 tons.

The trailers are pulled by high horsepower tractors. Taylor purchased a 600 hp tractor for traveling on public roads. Two types of self-propelled arrangements were also purchased. A separate power unit with a 500 hp diesel will be used when off roads. This power unit can be used when all the modules are used as one combined trailer.

Another power unit can be used as a self-propelled trailer when off-road and as additional horsepower when the trailers are pulled by the large tractor. This is a recent innovation Taylor is the only transport company in the Mid-west to purchase the PowerBooster arrangement.

Trailer modules can be connected side to side and lengthwise to suit the cargo they’re carrying. They’ll be used in all sorts of industrial applications. Power plant components like turbines and generators, refinery equipment such as reactor vessels and other heavy equipment that must be transported from ports and manufacturing plants to sites. Many fabricators in the Tulsa area use these types of transporters to move equipment to the Port of Catoosa and Houston.

Jim Taylor recently viewed the first completed modules at BAUMA, an international exhibition in Munich Germany. The PowerBooster was part of a display of Kamag equipment and all that attended saw the Announcement that Taylor Crane had purchased the modules (Top photo with Jim Jr. and son James, III).