Hemmings Daily: The load-down on this Mercedes-Benz transporter: Porsche commissioned it

Of all the ways to load a car onto a truck for transportation, German utility truck builder Ruthmann may have come up with one of the oddest and yet most practical method for its so-called Gewichtsbilanz Schraeghubwagen, a truck that Porsche commissioned and that will cross the auction block this weekend. Ruthmann, founded in 1901 and based out of Gescher-Hochmoor in North Rhein-Westphalia, for the most part builds hydraulic cranes for flatbed trucks, but in late 1982, the Porsche factory in Stuttgart approached [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Wednesday, March 14, 2018 [The load-down on this Mercedes-Benz transporter: Porsche commissioned it]( [The load-down on this Mercedes-Benz transporter: Porsche commissioned it]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Of all the ways to load a car onto a truck for transportation, German utility truck builder Ruthmann may have come up with one of the oddest and yet most practical method for its so-called Gewichtsbilanz Schraeghubwagen, a truck that Porsche commissioned and that will cross the auction block this weekend. Ruthmann, founded in 1901 and based out of Gescher-Hochmoor in North Rhein-Westphalia, for the most part builds hydraulic cranes for flatbed trucks, but in late 1982, the Porsche factory in Stuttgart approached ... 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