Heavy Truck snow chains

chains for larger trucks involved in goods transportation

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Heavy Truck snow chains category

When winter hits and roads become treacherous with ice and snow, ensuring the safety and reliability of an heavy trucks is crucial.

König snow chains destined to heavy trucks provide exceptional traction, reducing the risk of skidding and enhancing control on slippery surfaces. Easy to install and compatible with a variety of truck tyre sizes, the König heavy truck snow chains offer a dependable solution to keep fleets moving safely and efficiently. Whether you’re hauling freight across the country or navigating local deliveries, the König snow chains are an essential investment for winter driving.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Common product design features

König Polar Pro snow chain fitted on a tyre
Traditional, heavy duty construction

The product is built following the traditional Professional snow chains construction, meaning that the chain is 100% manufactured in Steel, lacking of any plastic component, cable arch or anything else. Just superior quality steel and the most advanced treatments, plain and simple.

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Tensioning lever

The tensioning of the chain is given by the coupling of the tensioning lever and the tightening chain. Once reached the correct tensioning, the lever gets secured with a dedicated anti-return ring or shackle

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Outer closing hook

The outer hook is the connection point of the outer side of the chain.

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Side connections

More basic products are coming with bent side hooks connections while the more premium products comes with welded side rings.

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Elastic end with heavy duty spring

The tightening chain gets secured to the side chain through an elastic end composed by an heavy duty spring and a carabiner for the quickest mounting/demounting process

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König Polar Pro snow chain fitted on a tyre
Two types of link configuration

Offroad chains can be equipped with simple link configuration (Rallye range) or ice-breaker configuration (Polar range)

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Single diamond cross-section design

The cross-section design is generated starting from single diamonds in sequence. This is most typical cross-section design for offroad, truck and bus applications.

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König Polar Pro snow chain fitted on a tyre
Side connections

More basic products are coming with bent side hooks connections while the more premium products comes with welded side rings

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Inner closing hook

The inner hook is the connection point of the inner side of the chain.

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fitting system

How are Heavy Truck snow chains fitted?

UNIQUE SELLING POINTS

Common features of the Heavy Truck snow chains

Professional, heavy duty construction

The traditional fitting system with inner side chain is the most classical way to fit a professional snow chain. The super sturdy design doesn’t include anything else than steel and for this reason it’s the most reliable costruction available.

Superior material quality and process excellence

Considering that Steel represents the vast majority of the raw materials used in Professional snow chains, König has developed through the years one of the latest generation special alloy steel with a strictly defined chemical composition, selected amongst hundreds of options for its superior mechanical properties, perfect processability and fitment into bending, welding and surface treatment processes.

The K-Premium Steel is synonym of reliability, resistance and durability.

D-Shaped links in 4.50mm, 5.50mm and 7.00mm wire

The brand uses D-shaped links for off-road applications, providing the ideal balance between strong traction and link mobility. Their geometry allows the links to move freely over uneven and challenging terrain, reducing the risk of the chain getting stuck.

According to the different tyre sizes, the snow chain gets manufactured with different wire diameters which are directly proportional to the tyre size.

Fully certified and legally valid

The snow chain is certified according to the latest regulatory standards Ö-Norm V5119 thus complying to any snow chain legal requirement worldwide. Both the product and the packaging are showing the necessary marking required by the current legislation.

THE PRODUCT RANGE

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Professional snow chains configurator

The König snow chains configurator supports the selection of the most recommended snow chains for your needs, taking in consideration the vehicle, the tyre size and the eventual restrictions generated by the combination of these two.

The configurator results are based on internal tests which are regularly conducted on vehicles and tyres to ensure the best fitment is provided. If your vehicle or tyre size (or both) are not shown on our configurators, please get in touch with our service through our contact form.