John C.
Senior Member
I got a call this morning from a friend troubled about a scary occurrence on his HM400-1 articulated haul truck. It seems a couple of weeks ago his operator was on a haul when the box started going up on its own. People saw it going up and through a lot of wild gestures and such, got the operator to stop the truck. He shut the engine down to stop the box, started it back up and the control worked fine. My caller was on another site yesterday where there were other trucks operating and he mentioned his story and they told him it happed to them as well on one of their machines. Apparently it has happened a number of times on their machine so they shut it down.
Apparently the control at the handle is electrically operated and we don't yet know if it is just switches or it runs through a controller. I suspect a controller because it also has a transmission function and an engine start function to go along with float, hold, up and power down.
Any information would be greatly appreciated to say the least.
Apparently the control at the handle is electrically operated and we don't yet know if it is just switches or it runs through a controller. I suspect a controller because it also has a transmission function and an engine start function to go along with float, hold, up and power down.
Any information would be greatly appreciated to say the least.