Sinotruk HOWO 6×4 Concrete Mixer

What this machine is

The Sinotruk HOWO 6×4 concrete mixer. The standard HOWO three-axle chassis with the rear two driven, a 371 hp Sinotruk engine and a 12-speed manual gearbox, carrying a rotating 12,000 litre drum.

12.00R20 tyres, left-hand drive and convertible to right-hand drive, China II, III or V by unit. Model years 2020 to 2025, and 90 m³ on the vessel.

What it is used for

Construction, and it is the machine a concrete business runs on.

Batching plant deliveries. Plant to site, several times a day, on a fixed round. This is what the truck is for and where it earns.

Site pours. Foundations, slabs, columns, road works. Anywhere concrete has to arrive mixed and stay mixed until it is discharged.

Small-scale ready-mix. For an operator starting a concrete business, one mixer and a supply agreement with a plant is the whole capital requirement.

Why this configuration

There is one mixer in our range and the choices worth explaining are the chassis and the drum size.

The chassis is the ordinary HOWO 6×4, and that is the main reason to buy this truck rather than a specialist. The engine, gearbox, axles, brakes and cab are the same as the HOWO tipper and the HOWO tractor unit, which means the filters, the brake parts and the mechanic who knows the truck are already in your town. A specialist mixer chassis with a rare driveline is a better machine and a worse purchase in a market where the nearest dealer is in another country.

Twelve cubic metres is the working size. Smaller drums exist and they suit urban work with tight access. Larger ones exist and they need a chassis with another axle. Twelve on a 6×4 is the combination that fits through a site gate and still makes a delivery worth the diesel.

Three axles rather than four. A mixer spends its life turning into sites and reversing to a pour point. The turning circle of a 6×4 matters more here than payload does.

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 mixer, the drum is the machine. A chassis we can put right. A drum that has been left with concrete setting in it, or whose internal blades are worn down, is a much larger job and it is not always visible from outside. Ask us specifically for photographs of the drum interior, the blades and the drive ring, and we will send them. If we would not buy the drum ourselves, we will tell you.

Shipping it

90 m³. A mixer is a large, tall, awkward shape and it occupies more space than the tipper on the same chassis at 77 m³. Sea freight is charged on that box rather than on the weight, which is why the figure is on this page.

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

What to tell us

Your pour sizes and how far you deliver. The site access, because that decides more about a mixer than the specification does. Your destination port, the quantity and whether you need right-hand drive.