TECHNOLOGY

The AC truck that stopped traffic

Atlas Copco has showed off its latest underground hauler – the MT65 – to select customers ahead of the truck’s official launch at this year’s Minexpo.

Noel Dyson*
Atlas Copco's MT65 underground hauler

Atlas Copco's MT65 underground hauler

At MINExpo in 2012 Atlas Copco wowed the world with talk of an 85-tonne-payload underground truck. That would be 25t more than its largest hauler the MT6020. The world waited … and waited. It turns...

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