Road Transport Vehicles for Hauling Uncomminuted Forest Energy Products in Sweden

Table 4

Comparison of the observed vehicles according to level of investment, load volume, load weight, and performance.

System	Investment	Permitted load volume	Permitted load weight	Performance^a
Container system vehicle	1	1	1	1
Specialized vehicle 1	1.61	1.33	0.97	2.00–4.31^b
Specialized vehicle 2	1.68	1.31	0.99	1.90
Specialized vehicle for bundles	1.33	—	1.30	2.27

aPerformance is defined as the relative total time consumption per tonne at the terminal.
bDepends on type of assortment (lowest performance for loose residues and highest performance for bundles).