ARDCO’s Articulating Multi-Purpose Truck Roars at ConExpo

March 22, 2017

2 min read

The powerful AMT 400 model provides a max payload of 28000 pounds for hauling fuel water or dirt — The powerful AMT 400 model provides a max payload of 28,000 pounds for hauling fuel, water or dirt.

ARDCO presented its next generation articulating multi-purpose truck at ConExpo, featuring a modular back-end platform that offers the flexibility to customize the vehicle to suit any work environment, from urban construction projects to extreme off-road jobsites. The AMT is designed to accept a wide range of standard and customizable attachments including a bare chassis, flatbed, water tank, fuel tank, dump bed, service and lube station, utility bed, personnel carrier, pipe trailer, drill, and custom solutions.

End-users can change attachments, and rental companies can serve a variety of customer applications with a single machine.

Multiple tire choices – tractor, construction, terra or sand – help further configure the machine to various work conditions in construction, oil and gas, railroad, utility, forestry and agriculture. The AMT can navigate difficult terrain.

The truck is powered by a 250- horsepower Cummins QSB6.7 Tier 4 diesel engine, and features selectable 4- or 6-wheel-drive and offers a maximum payload of 45,000 pounds. The AMT 400 model has a 200-horsepower Cummins Tier 4 engine, offers 2- or 4-wheel drive, and provides a max payload of 28,000 pounds for hauling fuel, water, dirt and more. Top travel speed is 23 miles per hour.

Specifically built for off-road travel, the AMT includes a high-strength center pivot trunnion with about 20 degrees of oscillation, allowing all the tires to maintain ground contact and traction on rough terrain. Dual hydraulic cylinders provide 37 degrees of steering each way, allowing for good maneuverability and added traction.

ARDCO was founded in 1955 and has more than 3,500 machines working internationally, navigating rough terrain and reaching remote locations.

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Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.