BelAZ presents biggest heavy-duty truck in the world

22 января 2014
Yakov Buta: The new model with the capacity of 450 tons was presented in Zhodino. The vehicle weighs 800 tons and can speed up to 64 km an hour. The first model of the kind will be launched to Kemerovo careers in February. It took the plant 2 years to produce the truck. BelAZ 75-710 rather resembles a big house on the wheels. Its height is 8 meters.

Svistunov, representative of the Guinness Book, Russia: The record is not the most important thing here. This truck is the future of several industries.

11 big cranes were bought to assemble the crane. 1.5bn USD is going to be invested into production, which is going to pay off by new orders soon.

Oleg Stepuk, Senior Deputy Director General of BELAZ: We have requests from the countries of Asia, Africa and America.

The experts predict that competitors will not be able to bit the record of BelAZ within 3 years.