SDLG Wide-Body Mining Truck

What this machine is

An SDLG wide-body mining truck. A reinforced off-road hauler with a 460 hp Weichai diesel, an 8-speed manual gearbox and 14.00R25 earthmover tyres, carrying 40 to 60 tonnes.

Overall 8.80 m long, 3.55 m wide and 4.00 m tall. The body measures 5.80 m long, 2.00 m wide and 3.20 m deep inside. China III, model years 2022 to 2025, and 125 m³ on the vessel, among the largest shipping volumes in this catalogue.

What it is used for

Mining, and nothing else. That is the only industry tag on this machine and it is accurate.

Pit haulage. Ore and waste from the loading face to the crusher, the stockpile or the dump, on a haul road inside the site boundary.

Quarry. The same cycle in stone, where the material is dense and the distances are short.

Large earthworks. Dam construction, major road cuttings, and other jobs with a pit-like geometry and no public road in the circuit.

Why a wide body, and where it sits in the market

This is the machine most worth explaining, because buyers arrive at it from two directions and one of them is usually mistaken.

Coming down from a rigid mine hauler. A purpose-built machine of the Caterpillar 773 or 777 class carries far more, is built to a far higher standard and costs accordingly, to buy, to run and to repair. If your pit needs that payload on a long haul with a large shovel, buy that machine.

A wide body does not compete with it on capability. It competes on cost per tonne moved on a short circuit. Forty to sixty tonnes, on a reinforced truck chassis, using truck parts and truck mechanics, at a fraction of the capital. For a mid-sized pit with a 22 to 30 tonne excavator and a haul under a couple of kilometres, that is very often the right economics.

Coming up from a road tipper. Our 8×4 road tippers carry 35 to 45 tonnes and can be driven to the site. This carries 40 to 60 and cannot. The wide body’s advantages are a stronger structure built for repeated shock loading from an excavator bucket, and tyres and geometry made for a haul road rather than tarmac. A road tipper doing a pit’s work full-time breaks, and it breaks in the chassis.

The disqualifying fact is on this page and not in a later conversation. At 3.55 m wide and 4.00 m tall it is not road legal in most places. If you need one machine that hauls in the pit and drives to the next site, you need an 8×4 tipper. If you need one machine and a way to move it, you need this and a low-bed trailer, and we build those.

Condition, and what we do before it ships

Through our own workshop before it loads: inspected, put right, and photographed at each stage.

On an off-road hauler, ask for the chassis and the body mounts first. A wide body takes shock loads no road truck sees, repeatedly, and where it fails it fails structurally. Then the tyres: 14.00R25 earthmovers are a significant cost in their own right and their condition is a real part of what you are buying. We photograph all four.

Shipping it

125 m³, calculated from the overall dimensions, which puts it among the largest boxes on this site. Sea freight is charged on that box. Get the freight quoted before you settle a quantity, because two of these is a substantial shipment.

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

What to tell us

Your haul distance and your loading tool. Whether you need a low-bed to move it between sites. Your destination port and the quantity.