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A terminal tractor Terminal tractor at the Port of Dover.. A terminal tractor, known in the United States as a shag truck, shunt truck, spotter truck, spotting tractor, yard truck, yard shifter, yard dog, yard goat, yard horse, yard mule, yard jockey, yard spotter, hostler, or mule, is a kind of semi-tractor intended to move semi-trailers within a cargo yard, warehouse facility, or intermodal ...
Ottawa Trucks, now formally referred to as Kalmar Ottawa, is a United States-based company which is the largest manufacturer of terminal tractors in North America, with over 55,000 produced. In 1990 the Ottawa Truck Corporation acquired Beck Fire Apparatus of Cloverdale, CA , which continued to operate as an independent division until going out ...
In the mid-sixties, KVAB also produced small trucks, boats, parking decks and cars for road use. Tjorven was a small delivery van based on the DAF 44, Postverket placed an initial order of 1000 vehicles. [3] Kalmar Terminal was a vehicle intended to be used for transporting goods in ports between ships and railway. One odd detail was that the ...
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Sisu terminal tractor at Katajanokka quay in Helsinki. In autumn 1980, Sisu TR-200, which was the world's strongest terminal tractor by then, was presented in Portex fair in Hamburg . The Sisu terminal tractors could be designed relatively easily according to the customer requirements due to highly modulised structure; this led to success in ...
Tjorven, here in a version adapted for the handicapped Tjorven in service as mail truck. The Kalmar KVD440/441, also variously known as Tjorven or DAF Kalmar, is a delivery van based on the DAF 44, made in Sweden. The vehicle inherited the air-cooled, 844-cc boxer engine and Variomatic transmission from the DAF 44.
1982 – Terminal and ro-ro tractors were manufactured. 1990 – The company entered in container handling manufacturing with its first Top Loader. 1993 – First family of reachstacker model Ferrari 100 was launched. 1997 – The second generation of reachstackers model Ferrari 200 was introduced in the Market.
The first were produced in Italy, and later in Kalmar, Sweden. 100 vehicles were made during the period 1979–1981. There were some variations, with some having a cargo area, needed in the remote parts of northern Sweden where mail and parcels are often transported by passenger buses and trains.