The Mobiler consists mainly of two hydraulically driven shift traverses mounted on a truck's platform. After the truck has taken position parallel to the container bearing railway wagon the two traverses perform a sophisticated way of movement. Thus within 100 seconds containers or swapbodies ranging from 18 to 32 tons are moved from rail to road or viceversa.
Note: the load is lifted only 14 cm during movement so the Mobiler is considered as a very safe way of handling hazardous goods. The two traverses act under the control of an electronic Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) . From a mechanics point of view one basic idea of the Mobiler movement is that the load is taken over from both the truck and the railway wagon. So no additional mechanical foothold is necessary.
The only additional requirements are two rectangular channels in the bottom frame of the container or swapbody and a steel plate on the wagon side. The picture to the right is taken from the mouth of one Mobiler channel and shows the composition of the Mobiler traverse. It should be recognized that the Mobiler consists of several shells.
If You want to see a sequence of pictures which shows how the Mobiler moves a 32t tank container from car to semitrailer then click here.