Engineers unveil world's biggest dumper trick - and it can shift 450 TONNES

Engineers have unveiled the world's biggest dumper truck - a 10m-wide motoring mountain capable of shifting 450 TONNES.

The Belaz 75710 has been designed to work in temperatures from -50 to +50 degrees and in altitudes up to 4500m above sea level.

It can haul an almighty 450-tonnes of material - 90-tonnes more than the firm's current biggest truck.

This is the equivalent of 300 Ford Focuses, 37 double decker buses or two-and-a-half blue whales.

It could comfortably transport the equivalent of an Airbus A380 - the world’s largest passenger plane - which weighs 277 tonnes.

The 20-metre long machine stretches ten-metres wide and eight-metres high, using TWO diesel engines which provide a combined 4,600bhp.

This is the same as four Bugatti Veyron SuperSports and give it a top speed of 40mph.

But the eight-wheel dumper truck, fully laden with 450 tonnes of dirt and debris, can still climb a ten per cent gradient at 25mph.

However, ear defenders are a must for anyone skilled enough to drive the 75710 - with noise levels inside the cab less than 80dB and the overall vibration level less than 115dB.

Leonid Trukhnov, the company’s chief designer, said: 'We are preparing documents to submit the dump truck with the carrying capacity of 450 tonnes to the Guinness World Records.'

Belaz, which was founded in Belarus 65 years ago, has built 135,000 dumpers and supplies one third of the world’s dump trucks.

The 75710, which should be on sale in 2015, is currently undergoing final testing at the Bachatsky open pit coal mine in Siberia, recognised as having some of the harshest mining conditions in the world.