Vehicles for Wind Turbine Transport
Wind turbines consist of rotor blades, tower sections, hybrid towers, hubs, and generators, both onshore and offshore. Each component presents a different transport challenge: length for blades, height for tower sections and nacelles, and weight for generators and transformers. Faymonville matches the vehicle configuration to the cargo, ensuring optimum loading height, compliance with route restrictions, smooth passage beneath bridges and overpasses, and safe access to demanding wind farm sites while meeting permitting requirements.
Solutions for Rotor Blades
Long rotor blades are transported on the TeleMAX teletrailer, available with straight, cranked, or hydraulic goosenecks. For XXL wind turbine blades exceeding 70 meters in length, the WingMAX offers a loading platform with up to four telescopic extensions, hydraulic pendulum axles, a hydraulically raiseable and lowerable gooseneck, and reinforced telescopic locking systems. Even greater maneuverability is provided by the FlexMAX self-steering trailer equipped with a blade adapter. It carries blades ranging from 80 to 120 meters in length and steers independently of the truck, enabling safe navigation through tight bends and restricted access roads. Further solutions are available in the flatbed trailers range.
Height-Optimized Transport to the Wind Farm
For tall tower sections and nacelles, every millimeter of loading height matters. The MultiMAX semi-low loader is designed for transporting tower sections, generators, and hybrid tower components. Featuring a low pendle-axle design, the MultiMAX PA-X reduces the loading height to just 790 mm. The MegaMAX low loader and VarioMAX low bed semi-trailer offer detachable goosenecks and loading platforms optimized for component length. Their hydraulically widenable deck and low outer beams, available with single or double telescopic extension, allow the loading platform to be adapted precisely to the width and length of the cargo. For exceptionally tall nacelles, a flat-bed deck with a construction height of only 200 mm is available. The MegaMAX is also used for transporting offshore wind farm half-shell foundations. Further information is available in the lowbed trailers range.
Transformers and Generators
The expansion of substations and energy infrastructure involves the transport of generators and transformers, which are compact yet extremely heavy loads. Faymonville's modular transport solutions are designed specifically for these applications. The CombiMAX modular vehicle and ModulMAX heavy-duty module feature four gooseneck configurations: fixed, raiseable and lowerable, hydraulically compensating, and detachable. Axle lines can be combined freely according to payload requirements. Within the CombiMAX modular concept, the Add-On Beam extends the vehicle configuration for the transport of longer components.