SUBSTANTIATION OF A SIGNIFICANT INDICATOR OF THE CHOICE OF TRACTOR-TRAILERS

Abstract

The volume of transportation organized in agricultural enterprises is constantly growing. At the same time, it is recommended to use tractor transport for transportation carried out on the field and dirt roads. To ensure efficient operation of the tractor unit, which is an energy tool, hitch, and trailer, it is necessary to meet several conditions: 1) rational choice of the range of trailers, taking into account the conditions of their operation; 2) ensuring optimal performance of technical and operational properties of tractor units. As a result of the analysis of the correlation between the technical and operational indicators of trailers and energy indicators of tractors, it was found that the selection of trailers should be carried out using the load capacity of the trailer as an indicator. It is established that the use of this indicator will allow forming a trailer composition taking into account the influence of such indicators as tangential traction force, specific fuel consumption. This, in turn, will allow in the process of substantiating the composition of the transport unit to assess the economic efficiency of its operation.

Key words: tractor, trailer, load capacity, weight, energy saturation