OREANDA-NEWS. April 25, 2007. At the 8th International Specialized Trade Show “Commercial Autotransport-2007” in IEC “Crocus Expo” “KAMAZ” took two awards in the annual competition “The Best Commercial Vehicle in Russia”.

The competition established by “The Commercial Transport” magazine was lead in the nominations “The Best Home Truck”, “The Best Foreign Truck”, “The Best Foreign Van”, “The Best Home Bus” and “The Perspective of the Year”. The organizers provided the special prize for the automobile producers “For Successful Mastery of the Domestic Market”.

In the choice of winners there was taken into account the increased transportation efficiency of a vehicle, new technical solutions used in its construction, sales volumes, financial conditions of purchase, an effective service system, etc.

The jury of the authoritative journalists of the largest home editions and mass media highlighting the automobile theme awarded the first place to the KAMAZ-4308 truck of medium payload in the nomination “The Best Home Truck”. The vehicle named “KAMAZYONOK” was presented at the exhibition as an evacuator with a crane-manipulating device, a double-level evacuator and an isothermal delivery truck with a hydro side. The sales volume of the commercial vehicles on KAMAZ-4308 chassis increased by 2,5 times (up to 750 units) in 2006. In 2007 it’s planned to sell up to 2500 trucks.

“KAMAZ” also took the second place in the nomination “For Successful Mastery of the Domestic Market”. It corresponds to the tempo of sales increase of the KAMAZ vehicles on the domestic market in 2006 (by 35,7%) and in the first quarter of 2007 (by 43,2%) that is more in comparison with the analogous periods a year ago.