OREANDA-NEWS. July 26, 2011. KAMAZ’s dealer in Volgograd – AvtoTekhTsentr – delivered 27 KAMAZ-5460 artics to a large farm to the sum of almost 50 million rubles.

The farm which purchased the KAMAZ-5460 vehicles is engaged in the cultivation of watermelons. The company transports its products to many regions of the Russian Federation, and therefore it urgently needed to buy trucks with high consumer properties.

The managers of the farm chose KAMAZ-5460 truck tractors not by chance. According to Commercial Director of AvtoTekhTsentr Evgeny Stepanov, the farmers were attracted by reliability of KAMAZ truck tractors, their ease of maintenance and affordable price. Against the customer’s order, cabs of KAMAZ trucks were painted red – the corporate color of the farm.

The first production version of the KAMAZ-5460 artic was made in 2003. After it had been upgraded in 2006, the truck tractor from the banks of the Kama became "The best domestic truck" in the contest "The North Stars – 2007". In 2009, KAMAZ introduced restyled models of vehicles, including KAMAZ-5460 which immediately attracted potential consumers’ and experts’ attention, at the CTT and Interauto exhibitions.

To date, the KAMAZ truck tractors belongs to the company’s new line of vehicles with improved performance characteristics. Due to the use of parts made by the world`s leading manufacturers of automotive components, the KAMAZ-5460 features an 80% increased service interval and an 8% higher specific capacity. Fuel consumption decreased by 10 percent. The car is equipped with a powerful engine, thanks to which the KAMAZ-5460 can develop a speed of 100 kilometers per hour with a gross combination weight of 40 tons.