You know the problem. You have items weighing in the 10’s to 100’s of tons that need to be moved from this room in your facility to another but you’re confronted with a host of challenges including tight spaces, various floor conditions, and finding something that can handle that amount of weight. You ask, “How is it possible to move loads this heavy in the typical congested manufacturing environments without tearing up equipment and factory floors?”

Say hello to the OmniTruck with its patented UNILOAD – Fluid Equalizing Suspension, a truly unique solution to this very problem. The technology consists of multi-axle load carrying platforms (In plant transporters).  From 3 to 20, on-center rotating, vertical lifting axle assemblies that equalize the weight distribution across every lift point regardless of floor conditions. We call this the OmniTruck. Our OmniTruck in plant (IP) transporters are designed to lower down and drive underneath stand-supported loads. When in position, they lift the loads clear off the floor and drive in ANY direction. The fluid equalizing suspension guarantees that every tire is carrying only its share of the load without ever creating overload conditions on the floor.

While the European style big multi-axle modular transporters (SPMTs) used in construction are common across a wide variety of heavy rigging applications, those platforms are large and travel on truck tires. They are just too big for indoor applications. They require considerable open space to operate. The OmniTruck technology is a patented miniaturized version, designed to operate in the confined, low overhead clearance plant applications for handling loads too big or heavy for forklifts and most cranes.

When manufacturers outgrow their existing space, they often face costly options—building a new facility or making major structural modifications. Low-profile OmniTruck transporters can eliminate those expenses, saving millions in construction costs by allowing production to continue in the current plant without modifications. These versatile transporters also provide precision positioning and alignment for major assembly operations, increasing efficiency and flexibility.

OmniTruck transporters have sophisticated control systems to accommodate their omni-directional travel and self-loading capabilities. This makes them an ideal base platform as automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) of virtually unlimited capacities. The same automation benefits attached to small AGV operations are now totally obtainable in ultra-heavy capacities.

A unique feature of these OmniTrucks is their ability to operate on almost any type of floor or roadbed. Uneven terrain is a major benefit of their inherent equalizing suspension system. They operate on deteriorated floors, handle steep ramps, asphalt roadbeds running between buildings, and can go almost anywhere in and around a plant.

• Equalized Weight Distribution: Every wheel bears equally on the floor – always.
• Floor Damage Totally Eliminated: Can cross thresholds, floor drains, cracked and broken floors, as well as steep ramps without incident.
• Multiple Steering Options: It can drive forward/aft, left/right, spin on its axis or turn on any point.
• Self-Loading: The OmniTrucks can drive under raised load platforms, then lift and move through highly congested areas effortlessly.
• Precision Positioning: The OmniTruck can effortlessly make movements in the X, Y and Z motions measured in thousandths of an inch.
• Heavy AGV Applications: Ten, twenty, two hundred tons and beyond.
• Ideal For Narrow Aisles: transfers between crane bays, and low overhead clearances make them ideal for difficult manufacturing spaces.

Now comes the next generation of technology innovations. New concepts in both axle and transporter equalizing suspension systems address a much broader range of application potential, in the far greater arena of industries that are regularly dealing with fabrication and assembly operations with load weights of 10 through 40 tons.

The new series of OmniTruck transporter designs offer at least six new transporter equalizing suspension configurations over the previous versions. Until now every transporter had to be furnished with ALL of the sophistication needed for the most complex applications. For customers that didn’t need, or want, all of those unique capabilities, cost saving configurations were just not available. That is no longer the case. OmniTruck transporters can now be furnished with only the amount of sophistication needed for the particular application. From Tricycle suspension, four to twenty axle transporters, Plank configurations, 3+1 suspension, AGVs, Towable trailers, manual and fully automatic controls, and more.