All 85 Construction Vehicles in Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Construction vehicles are the machines that do the hands-on work of building in Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. Instead of paying to have a building or road finished at once, you can use them to put it up yourself from materials you produce or import. They handle the heavy physical work on a site, so knowing what each type does helps you plan your early building.

Bulldozer (big)

A heavy dozer for moving large volumes of earth during site preparation.

Max speed

20 km/h

Engine power

180 kW

Production starts

1983

Production ends

Present

Origin

USA

DLC

Base game

Fi AD bulldozer

FAFi AD bulldozer

An early crawler bulldozer for opening up ground before building work begins.

Max speed

8 km/h

Engine power

55 kW

Production starts

1946

Production ends

1972

Origin

Italy

DLC

Early Start

Hilt 75 Bulldozer

H7Hilt 75 Bulldozer

A small early dozer suited to the first years of a republic.

Max speed

8 km/h

Engine power

56 kW

Production starts

1913

Production ends

1924

Origin

USA

DLC

Early Start

Hmac-K12 bulldozer

HBHmac-K12 bulldozer

A road-going bulldozer for routine earthmoving around construction sites.

Max speed

22 km/h

Engine power

75 kW

Production starts

1970

Production ends

1990

Origin

West Germany

DLC

Base game

KT50 bulldozer

A compact crawler dozer for clearing and shaping building ground.

Max speed

20 km/h

Engine power

47 kW

Production starts

1956

Production ends

Present

Origin

East Germany

DLC

Base game

Ruston Bucyrus RB10

RBRuston Bucyrus RB10

A large early bulldozer built for heavy groundworks.

Max speed

14 km/h

Engine power

60 kW

Production starts

1934

Production ends

1969

Origin

United Kingdom

DLC

Early Start

S100 Stalinec

A Soviet crawler dozer that handles general site preparation.

Max speed

20 km/h

Engine power

58 kW

Production starts

1958

Production ends

Present

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Base game

SKhTZ NATI

SNSKhTZ NATI

An early tracked tractor adapted for bulldozing work.

Max speed

15 km/h

Engine power

38 kW

Production starts

1937

Production ends

1952

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Early Start

Small feeder (dozer/excavator)

This small machine can be assigned to either dozer or excavator work.

Max speed

20 km/h

Engine power

30 kW

Production starts

1987

Production ends

Present

Origin

USA

DLC

Base game

T138 mixer

A Czechoslovak mixer truck for ordinary construction supply.

Max speed

70 km/h

Engine power

132 kW

Concrete capacity

10.3 t concrete

Production starts

1959

Production ends

1971

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

T148 mixer

TMT148 mixer

A later Tatra mixer that carries a little more than the T138.

Max speed

75 km/h

Engine power

149 kW

Concrete capacity

10.8 t concrete

Production starts

1972

Production ends

1982

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

T24 Concrete

TCT24 Concrete

An early Czechoslovak truck for delivering concrete to small projects.

Max speed

40 km/h

Engine power

84 kW

Concrete capacity

4 t concrete

Production starts

1927

Production ends

1940

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Early Start

E-302B excavator

A compact Soviet excavator for digging and gravel work.

Max speed

18 km/h

Engine power

45 kW

Production starts

1957

Production ends

1973

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Base game

E7.2 excavator

EEE7.2 excavator

A high-powered excavator for demanding digging and gravel operations.

Max speed

20 km/h

Engine power

250 kW

Production starts

1992

Production ends

Present

Origin

USA

DLC

Base game

Earie Steam Shovel

ESEarie Steam Shovel

A steam-powered shovel for excavation in an early-start republic.

Max speed

8 km/h

Engine power

40 kW

Production starts

1919

Production ends

1935

Origin

USA

DLC

Early Start

LH-A360 excavator

LELH-A360 excavator

A light West German excavator for smaller digging jobs.

Max speed

24 km/h

Engine power

34 kW

Production starts

1960

Production ends

1972

Origin

West Germany

DLC

Base game

M-III P 1.5

MPM-III P 1.5

An early Soviet shovel for excavation before modern hydraulic machines.

Max speed

13 km/h

Engine power

60 kW

Production starts

1929

Production ends

1960

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Early Start

Rmn 19-215 excavator

A road-going Romanian excavator for digging and earthworks.

Max speed

58 km/h

Engine power

101 kW

Production starts

1976

Production ends

1985

Origin

Romania

DLC

Base game

T-111 excavator

TET-111 excavator

A large early excavator for heavy digging jobs.

Max speed

62 km/h

Engine power

132 kW

Production starts

1947

Production ends

1962

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Early Start

T174 excavator

A small East German excavator suited to slower, local work.

Max speed

18 km/h

Engine power

25 kW

Production starts

1965

Production ends

1992

Origin

East Germany

DLC

Base game

T815-UDS excavator

A mobile Tatra excavator that can travel quickly between sites.

Max speed

80 km/h

Engine power

230 kW

Production starts

1984

Production ends

Present

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

YaG DA-0.25 excavator

YDYaG DA-0.25 excavator

An early Soviet excavator for the first stages of development.

Max speed

42 km/h

Engine power

54 kW

Production starts

1932

Production ends

1948

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Early Start

Э-10011Д excavator

A Soviet excavator for construction digging and gravel extraction.

Max speed

18 km/h

Engine power

80 kW

Production starts

1959

Production ends

1982

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Base game

Asphalt paver

A self-propelled paver that lays asphalt along a road worksite.

Max speed

15 km/h

Engine power

50 kW

Production starts

1975

Production ends

Present

Origin

USA

DLC

Base game

D150 asphalt paver

A Soviet paver that handles the asphalt-laying stage of road building.

Max speed

15 km/h

Engine power

50 kW

Production starts

1949

Production ends

1995

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Base game

T-111 crane

TCT-111 crane

A Czechoslovak crane for lifting materials in an early-start economy.

Max speed

62 km/h

Engine power

132 kW

Production starts

1947

Production ends

1962

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Early Start

T138 crane

A mid-century Tatra truck crane for construction lifts.

Max speed

70 km/h

Engine power

132 kW

Production starts

1959

Production ends

1971

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

T148 crane

TCT148 crane

A later Tatra crane truck for moving heavier site loads.

Max speed

75 km/h

Engine power

149 kW

Production starts

1972

Production ends

1982

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

T815 road crane

TRT815 road crane

A modern Tatra crane truck for regular construction work.

Max speed

90 km/h

Engine power

158 kW

Production starts

1982

Production ends

Present

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

T815-AD28 road crane

TRT815-AD28 road crane

A heavy Tatra crane configuration for demanding lifts.

Max speed

90 km/h

Engine power

172 kW

Production starts

1982

Production ends

Present

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

U377 crane

A Soviet truck crane for general building-site lifting.

Max speed

60 km/h

Engine power

132 kW

Production starts

1965

Production ends

1983

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Base game

V3S crane

VCV3S crane

A compact Czechoslovak crane vehicle for smaller lifting jobs.

Max speed

60 km/h

Engine power

73 kW

Production starts

1953

Production ends

1985

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

W50 crane

An East German truck crane for moving materials around sites.

Max speed

80 km/h

Engine power

92 kW

Production starts

1962

Production ends

1990

Origin

East Germany

DLC

Base game

YaG ATP-1 crane

YAYaG ATP-1 crane

An early Soviet mobile crane for basic construction lifts.

Max speed

42 km/h

Engine power

54 kW

Production starts

1932

Production ends

1948

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Early Start

20-Meter Service Tower Crane

2S20-Meter Service Tower Crane

A compact stationary crane for vertical lifting at a fixed worksite.

Max speed

0 km/h

Engine power

105 kW

Production starts

1928

Production ends

1955

Origin

Domestic product

DLC

Early Start

A1 tower crane (30m)

A stationary Czechoslovak crane for building work at height.

Max speed

0 km/h

Engine power

250 kW

Production starts

1959

Production ends

Present

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

A2 tower crane (45m)

A taller A-series crane for lifting materials above larger sites.

Max speed

0 km/h

Engine power

300 kW

Production starts

1972

Production ends

Present

Origin

Czechoslovakia

DLC

Base game

B2 tower crane (75m)

A large tower crane for construction that needs greater lifting reach.

Max speed

0 km/h

Engine power

400 kW

Production starts

1976

Production ends

Present

Origin

East Germany

DLC

Base game

SBK-1

SSBK-1

An early Soviet stationary crane for vertical material handling.

Max speed

0 km/h

Engine power

165 kW

Production starts

1946

Production ends

1976

Origin

Soviet Union

DLC

Early Start

TC1 tower crane

TTTC1 tower crane

A fixed tower crane for moving supplies around a building site.

Max speed

0 km/h

Engine power

350 kW

Production starts

1962

Production ends

Present

Origin

Sweden

DLC

Base game

How construction vehicles build your republic

There are two ways to finish a construction project. Funding with Rubles or Dollars works as an auto-build: you place the building, pick a currency, and it is finished almost right away. That speed costs more, because you pay for materials and labor plus an extra fee for instant delivery, and a distance fee based on how far the site is from the nearest customs house.

Building with resources is the cheaper route, and this is where construction vehicles come in. Your workers and vehicles do the job using materials you produce or import. The construction office takes charge, sending vehicles to pick up materials from the sources you assign and carry them to the site.

Workers arrive in one of two ways. Those from homes and transport stations within walking distance come on their own, while buses from the construction office collect workers at a stop for sites that are farther away. Construction starts once the workers and materials have reached the site.

The office can also find its own work. With auto search turned on, it looks for projects within 1,000, 2,000, or 3,000 meters, but only for the types you have enabled, such as roads, buildings, and pipelines. You can rank each site as high, medium, or low priority, and high-priority sites are served first.

The main types of construction vehicles and what they do

Each type of machine covers a different part of the work. Bulldozers prepare the ground before building starts, and excavators do the digging. Concrete mixers carry fresh concrete from the plant to the site. On road jobs, pavers lay asphalt and rollers pack the new surface down, and a site usually needs several of these machines because each one handles a different stage.

Lifting falls to cranes, which come in two kinds. Road cranes are mounted on trucks, while tower cranes stay in one spot once they are set up, lifting materials at a fixed worksite.

Which construction vehicles to get first

The minimum setup shows where to start. Alongside the construction office, a concrete plant, an asphalt plant, and storage for gravel and building materials, the early fleet centers on an excavator, a bulldozer, a concrete mixer, and a road crane or tower crane (or both). With those in place, you can start on the basics.

Dump trucks, open hull trucks, and buses are part of the early setup too. They work alongside the heavy machines, carrying gravel and asphalt, steel and bricks, and workers so the site keeps running. Pavers and rollers come into play once you start building roads, since they handle the asphalt stage. Later, the setup grows with a warehouse, faster gravel loading and unloading, and covered hull vehicles for mechanical and electro components.

Buying, parking, and moving construction vehicles

You buy and manage construction vehicles from the construction office window. The buy button lets you pay for a new vehicle with Dollars or Rubles, and it is placed in the office. Each office has parking spots for its vehicles, four in the free version and more in the bigger versions, up to 24.

Bulldozers and excavators can drive to a site on their own. If you turn on the option called Deliver mechanisms only with trucks, an open hull truck carries them instead, which is faster than driving. That option only works when an open hull truck is assigned to the office.

From the More menu, you can also change the workplace or depot for all your vehicles at once. This is handy when your building work moves to a different part of the republic.

Workdays: which machines work alone and which need workers

Progress is measured in workdays, which is how much one worker could add to construction in a full day. Some vehicles can produce workdays by themselves. Excavators and bulldozers, for example, keep adding progress even when no workers are on site.

Cranes work differently. They speed up production, but they need workers present to do it. That makes worker supply more important for crane work, because their help only counts while workers are on site.

Early and modern construction vehicles: which to use

The construction vehicles span a long stretch of history. The oldest are a horse-drawn concrete mixer and a horse crane, both dating from 1850, and some newer models are still in production today.

Many of the older machines move slowly, and some are built for the first stages of a republic's growth. Newer models are generally faster, more powerful, and built for heavier loads. Concrete capacity follows the same pattern, from the smallest early carriers that hold under a tonne up to the heaviest modern mixers that carry more than ten tonnes.

Which to use depends on the job and the stage your republic has reached. The game labels each machine as part of the base game or the Early Start content, so you can tell where each one comes from.

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