Shacman Delong X3000 6×4 Tractor Truck

What this machine is

The Shacman Delong X3000 6×4 tractor unit. Three axles with the rear two driven, a Weichai engine at 460 to 550 hp, a 12-speed manual gearbox and the X3000 single sleeper cab. Rated at 40 tonnes towing.

Overall 7.05 m long, 2.55 m wide and 3.80 m tall, on 12.00R20 tyres. Left-hand drive, convertible to right-hand drive. China II, III or V by unit. Model years 2020 to 2023.

What it is used for

Haulage, on the demanding end of it.

Routes that climb. The escarpments and passes inland from a coastal port, where a fully loaded combination either has the power or grinds up in a low gear cooking its driveline.

Full weight both ways. Contract work where the truck is at 40 tonnes on the return leg as well as the outward one, which is a completely different duty cycle from running loaded one way and empty back.

Heat and altitude. Both take output away from an engine. A truck rated at 550 hp at sea level in cool air is delivering considerably less at forty degrees and a thousand metres, and the headroom is the point.

Why the X3000, and against what

Shacman runs five Delong cab lines in our range and they divide cleanly into two groups.

The low cabs are the M3000, F3000 and H3000: 3.00 to 3.10 m tall, 54 to 55 m³ on the vessel, 400 to 430 hp. Working cabs for day and regional runs.

The high cabs are this and the X5000: 3.80 m, 68 m³, 460 to 550 hp. Living cabs for long distance.

Crossing between the groups costs 13 to 14 m³ of shipping volume per truck, which is real money on every unit you buy. So the question is whether you need what the extra height and the extra power actually buy, and there are only two honest reasons.

Gradients. If your route has real climbs, the power is not comfort. An underpowered combination on a long hill runs hot for extended periods and that is where the repair bill comes from three years later.

Drivers who sleep in the truck. A 3.80 m cab has the room a 3.00 m cab does not, and on a three-day route that decides whether you keep the driver.

If neither applies, take the M3000 at 430 hp and 54 m³ and put the saving into another truck.

Against the X5000 specifically: they are the same cab, the same height and the same 68 m³. The X5000 is listed at 550 hp; the X3000 spans 460 to 550. If your route does not demand the top of that range, the X3000 gives you the choice and the X5000 does not.

Condition, and what we do before it ships

Through our own workshop before it loads: inspected, put right, and photographed at each stage while the work is happening.

On a high-power truck, ask us to photograph the cooling pack and the exhaust side of the engine as well as the fifth wheel and the rear suspension. A truck that has spent its life at full output on hills shows it there first, and we would rather you saw those frames than a clean nearside.

Shipping it

68 m³. The same figure as the X5000, the HOWO TX and the 460 hp HOWO NX, because they all carry a cab around 3.80 m tall. Sea freight is charged on that box rather than on the truck’s weight or its power.

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

What to tell us

Your route and specifically its gradients. Whether the truck runs loaded both ways and whether it sleeps out. What you will pull. Your destination port, the quantity and whether you need right-hand drive.