Sinotruk HOWO 8×4 Dump Truck, 102 m³ shipping volume

What this machine is

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

Overall it is 11.50 m long, 2.55 m wide and 3.45 m tall. Left-hand drive, convertible to right-hand drive, China II, III or V by unit, model years 2020 to 2024.

We hold three 8×4 tippers with the same driveline and three different body lengths. This is the long one.

What it is used for

Construction and mining, on work where volume runs out before weight does.

Light bulk. Coal, wood chip, dry sand, agricultural residue. Materials that fill a body at well under the axle rating.

Demolition and waste. Broken timber, mixed rubble, household and industrial waste. Bulky, awkward, and rarely dense.

Overburden and topsoil. The dry, loose material that comes off the top of a site rather than out of the bottom of it.

Why the long body, and the exact number that decides it

There are three 8×4 tippers on this site with the same 35 to 45 tonne payload rating. Their bodies are 11.50 m, 10.00 m and 8.50 m over the truck, and their shipping volumes are 102, 88 and 75 m³.

The whole decision is the density of your material.

Work out roughly what a full body of your material weighs. If it comes to 45 tonnes before the body is full, the extra length is doing nothing for you and you are paying to ship air across an ocean and then tow it around for ten years. Take the short one.

If your body is full at 30 tonnes, the picture reverses. Every trip is a trip where you paid for 45 tonnes of axle and carried 30, and more body is more revenue per journey at no extra fuel or driver cost. Take this one.

The trap is that the long truck looks like the serious truck. It is not the serious truck. It is the truck for light material, and buying it for ore or wet sand is the most expensive mistake available on this page.

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 long-bodied tipper, the body itself is what to look at. Ask us for photographs of the floor and the lower sides, which is where a tipper wears out first, and of the tipping ram and its mounts. We photograph exactly those.

Shipping it

102 m³, the largest figure of any road truck on this site. That is 33% more than the 6×4 tipper and 36% more than the short-bodied 8×4, for the same rated payload as the latter.

We are putting that number on this page rather than in a freight quotation because it is the fact most likely to change your mind, and finding it late is worse for both of us. Loaded at our yard in Tangshan, shipped through Tianjin Port.

What to tell us

Your material, and roughly what a full body of it weighs. Your haul road. Your destination port, the quantity and whether you need right-hand drive. If the material turns out to be dense, we will point you at the short-bodied truck and save you money on the freight.