HITACHI Trucks & Trailers For Sale

While its biggest dump truck has a gross weight of 500t and can carry almost 300t of payload, its smallest loading shovels tips the scales at less than two tonnes.

However Hitachi is probably best known for its excavators and claims to have the widest range in the world from the giant 811 tonne EX8000 to its smallest mini which has an operating weight of just over one tonne. 

The company’s excavators have a very good reputation and are top sellers in some markets while many specialist manufacturers, such as those producing long reach and demolition equipment, utilise Hitachi machines as carriers.

Where Hitachi is different from many of its competitors is that it also produces screens and crushers, shredders and recyclers, tracked dumpers, rollers and, through Hitachi Sumitomo, a range of wheeled, crawler and boom cranes capable of lifting loads up to 550t. The company’s European base is in the Netherlands where it also assembles some of the machines for the EU, Africa, Russia and the Middle East.

In the UK the company’s earthmoving products are distributed through HM Plant (now a wholly-owned subsidiary) while NRC Plant in Essex handles the cranes.