OREANDA-NEWS. The tractive unit KAMAZ-5460 “Stayer” received the first place in the competition “North Stars-2007” in the nomination “The Best Domestic Truck”, within the franeworks of the exhibition “Auto+Automechanics”, which took place in Saint-Petersburg at the end of October, the Kamaz press service reported.

The tractive units KAMAZ-5460 are used in many regions of Russia and CIS in different climatic and road conditions. The line haul vehicle KAMAZ-5460 is a high-speed, reliable, easy-to-operate and rather comfortable truck tractor with low fuel costs. It has a low-speed engine KAMAZ-740 instaled, with the power of 400 hp. There are hard-wearing 315/60R22,5 tires by “Michelin” on the “Stayer” due to which servicing costs are lower and extra 10-15% of fuel is saved. Tractive units KAMAZ-5460 don’t yield to their analogues by other producers. The truck tractors satisfy the demands of the current domestic and foreign safety, noisiness and emission legislations, which apply to the vehicles of this class and objective function.