Truck

This image turned up on the Facebook page of one of my namesakes. But what it is? A cursory search failed to turn up anything like it, with the logo 'DaHaTa' not drawing any hits at all.

At reference 1, the tanker trailers on offer did not sport anything like as many axles. While in real life, I can only remember seeing mobile cranes and hard-core low loaders. To the point that we used to run competitions with the sprogs on long car journeys to see who could spot the vehicle with the most axles. And when they got older, with the most wheels, it being harder to count wheels, as it is hard to get the number of wheels to the axle from a quick glance from an awkward angle.

Was the truck used for carrying liquid mercury, seriously heavy stuff - with a cubic metre coming in at a bit less than 15,000 kg - which would indeed need plenty of axles? Was it actually a cover for moving missiles about? Bit unlikely, as even disguised missiles would come with some kind of serious escort, even if that also was disguised.

PS: Christmas jolly from this side of the pond to be found at reference 2.

Reference 1: http://www.senecatank.com/distribution-trailers.html.

Reference 2: https://www.youtube.com/embed/H965m0Hkk5M#t=14.