Sinotruk HOWO 8×4 Dump Truck, 88 m³ shipping volume

What this machine is

A Sinotruk HOWO 8×4 tipper with the middle body of the three we hold. Four axles, twelve 12.00R20 tyres, a 371 hp engine, a 12-speed manual gearbox and the HW76 single sleeper cab. Payload 35 to 45 tonnes.

Overall 10.00 m long, 2.55 m wide, 3.45 m tall. Left-hand drive, convertible to right-hand drive, China II, III or V by unit, model years 2020 to 2024.

What it is used for

Construction and mining, on mixed work rather than one specialised job.

General contracting. A truck that hauls hardcore on Monday, spoil on Tuesday and demolition waste on Wednesday, and is not the wrong machine on any of those days.

Quarry and aggregate. Stone and sand out to merchants and batching plants, where the load is moderately dense and the runs are on public roads.

Municipal and civil work. Road building, drainage, site clearance. The jobs where a fleet owner cannot predict next quarter’s material.

Why the middle length is a real choice, not a compromise

Our three 8×4 tippers share a driveline and a payload rating and differ in body length: 8.50 m at 75 m³, this one at 10.00 m and 88 m³, and 11.50 m at 102 m³.

The short one and the long one are both optimisations. The short truck is optimised for dense material and cheap freight: it reaches 45 tonnes with the body part full, so the extra space would be wasted, and it lands at your port for 27 m³ less than the long one. The long truck is optimised for light, bulky material: it earns its freight bill back on every trip because you fill it before you load it.

An optimisation is only right if you know which case you are in. Most buyers do not, or their answer changes with the contract they win.

This truck is what you buy when the honest answer is “it depends”. It has enough body for a light load to be worth carrying and it does not spend 102 m³ of freight to find that out. Over a fleet’s life on mixed work, the middle build usually beats a wrong optimisation in either direction.

Condition, and what we do before it ships

Through our own workshop before it loads: inspected, put right, and photographed at each stage, with the photographs sent to you during the work rather than after it.

Ask about the body floor, the tipping ram and the front suspension. Those are the three places wear shows on a four-axle tipper, and they are the three we photograph closely.

Shipping it

88 m³. That is 14 m³ less than the long-bodied truck and 13 m³ more than the short one, for identical payload. Sea freight is charged on volume, so the three trucks on the same driveline land at your port at three different costs and this is the middle one.

Loaded at our yard in Tangshan, shipped through Tianjin Port.

What to tell us

What you are hauling now and what you expect to be hauling in a year. Your haul road. Your destination port, the quantity and whether you need right-hand drive. If your material turns out to be consistently dense or consistently light, we will point you at one of the other two.