John Deere’s response to its customers asking for a safe, accurate and operator-friendly large-capacity dump hauler is the new 46-ton 460E articulated dump truck, unveiled on Tuesday at CONEXPO.
Revealed as part of John Deere’s campaign to include customer input into its equipment designs, the 460E ADT is John Deere’s first model, hot off the assembly line and waiting for its initial field test.
Due to hit the market in 2012, the 460E ADT is the largest articulated dump truck John Deere has ever manufactured. Purpose-built for heavy hauling applications such as mining, the 460E has a 13.5liter Tier 4 Interim Deere engine.
New features include an on-board weighing payload scale system that uses an external light bar to display real-time load weight data to both the ADT driver and loader operator, which eliminates guesswork during loading and saves valuable cycle time.
When linked to John Deere’s JDLink telematics system, contractors can monitor and analyze how much material is hauled. They can also see road patterns effects and driver performance to make adjustments that can save money and time.
John Deere’s 460E ADT has a newly-designed oscillation joint and balanced weight distribution to keep the vehicle stable on rough terrain. Roll-over risk is minimized with a dump body raising function that halts dumping if the rear chassis exceeds a predetermined slope angle.
For customers whose applications include considerable driving in reverse, John Deere has increased the reverser travel speed on the 460E.
The 460E is made with high-strength, lightweight materials to provide excellent payload-to-weight ratios and ground level service points make daily maintenance easy. Automatic traction controls take over when ground conditions get soft and automatically control the axle differential locks and inter-axle differential lock. Operators can still choose to manually engage the tractions controls.
