According to the latest industry statistics, a high-power agricultural tractor divides its operating hours 50 percent between field and road. This percentage also applies to agricultural trailers, but often heavily biased towards either road or field at different times. Trailers serving combine harvesters, for example, may cover only a few hundred meters in the field empty to reach the harvester but then travel several kilometers fully loaded to deliver the harvest to the farm. In other cases, the opposite occurs, such as when trailers are self-loading. Consequently, it’s difficult for…
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