Low-loader
The link that gets forgotten and that decides everything.
What can be sent to a site is not what works best:
it is what fits on the trailer.
Other names for this machine: tank transporter, flatbed, low-bed semi-trailer.
- Category
- HGV licence; loading under category G of CACES R.482A
- Status
- Does not carry interchangeable attachments
What it does
the total height, load included, decides what can travel.
Diagrammatic silhouette, without dimensions and not to scale.
Bringing the machine in and taking it away again.
It is the link that decides what can be sent to a site.
What it does not do. Nothing on the site itself.
a machine that cannot be transported does not come.
Synthetic image.
What decides its use
- The volume and the distance They are what decide whether this machine has a place on the site, or whether another will do the same work for less.
- The room available A machine that cannot manoeuvre does not produce, whatever its capacity.
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The rate of the neighbouring machines
It is rarely calculated and often costs more than the hire:
a machine that waits costs as much as a machine that works. - Transport to the worksite It governs what can actually be sent, and it is settled before everything else.
One model, as a reference point
The values below hold for this model only.
They are there to give an order of magnitude to anyone who has none, not to serve as a reference.
- Payload
- 31 400 kg
- Maximum authorised weight
- 38 000 kg
- Deck
- 9,200 mm long, 2,500 mm wide
- Gooseneck height
- 1 200 mm
- Winch
- 6 t electric, 25 m cable
Caveat. 31.4 t of payload:
it is that figure, and the width of 2.50 m, that decide what can be sent to a site.
A heavier or wider machine calls for an abnormal load convoy, so a delay and an authorisation.
Source. Technical sheet of a French hire company,
recorded on 1 September 2026.
These values are those of one precise model, at one precise date. They do not describe a category:
there are no characteristics of a compact loader in general, there are those of the model you have.
They change from one year to the next and never replace the data sheet of your machine.
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