Journal
Read buying guides, product notes, material stories, and field updates from the team.
The tonnage on the crane is not the tonnage the truck can carry, and it is not what you can lift at the end of the boom. How crane class, payload and axle load set the answer.
A lifting second axle decides the weighbridge ticket, the tyre bill and the turning circle. Where a 6x2 wins, where a 6x4 still does, with the published figures for one 24,500 kg build.
What Dongfeng actually publishes about overseas service and warranty, what it does not, and the two questions to ask before you order rather than after.
Buyers argue about the grab; the chassis decides whether the truck survives. Why one grab unit fits so many brands, and the decisions that actually set the chassis cost.
Fourteen African countries drive on the left. A steering-side question changes the chassis, the cab and the delivery time — here is the list, and the four places the map lies.
Both Euro III and China VI diesels are direct-injection. The real distinction is mechanical versus electronic control — and on high-sulphur fuel in thin-service markets, that decides downtime.
4x4 is usually specified too late and too casually. Where it genuinely earns its cost, where it does not, and what you give up in payload, deck length and cost to get it.
Log, scrap and bulk are three different machines — different shells, different linkages — and one design choice, soft versus rigid linkage, cuts across all three.
SASO's certificate list excludes used lifting equipment. That decides most used crane truck deals into Saudi Arabia — the three rules that follow, and the one we could not verify.
SASO publishes a numbered list of conformity certificates. Two of its entries apply to a truck-mounted crane — one to the truck, one to the crane — and they are certified separately.
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4 t / 18 m off-road telehandler (RT crane) on a 4WD chassis, with three steering modes and quick-change attachments. Specification and price on request.
4 t XCMG crane with a four-section telescopic boom on a factory overseas-version Dongfeng 4x2 chassis. Specification and price on request.
