Guides
Buyer's guides
The things worth understanding before you buy a machine from China. Written once, properly, and kept current. No dates on these, because none of it goes out of date.
- specification6×4 or 8×4, and which one is actually cheaper for your jobMore axles means more payload. It does not automatically mean more freight, and our own CBM figures show why.
- How to buy a used truck from China without getting burnedThe three points in the process where a buyer usually finds out too late that the unit is not the one they paid for.
- China II, III, V and VI: what the emission standard means for your importThe spec line most buyers skip, and the one most likely to stop a truck at your port.
- HOWO, SITRAK, Shacman and Beiben: which is whichFour names, and buyers genuinely do not know the differences. Here they are, including the one that is not a Mercedes.
- What to send in your first message to get a real quotationMost first messages say 'price?'. Here is the message that gets an actual answer back.
- LHD to RHD: what converting a truck actually involvesEvery unit here says convertible to RHD. Here is what the words are actually promising.
- What CBM is, and why it decides your shipping billNobody in this trade publishes shipping volume. We publish it on every unit, and this is the arithmetic it feeds.
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