Who the HINO 300 curtain-side suits
Curtain-side on HINO 300 is chosen when a box body is overkill but an open platform leaves the load exposed. Building materials, packaged furniture, equipment, pallets of mixed freight — everything that fears rain but needs no cold or airtightness. Take the tilt off and it is an ordinary drop-side platform for a crane. The chassis is a HINO 300 in model 917: a 4-litre turbodiesel with 165 hp, a six-speed manual, 5 tonnes of chassis payload and a category C licence.
Frame and tilt
The frame is bolted together: uprights, longitudinal beams and cross members. Bend an upright during loading and one part is replaced, not the whole structure. Translucent panels run along the roof: it is light inside during the day, the loader needs no lamp and box markings are readable at unloading. Wooden rails run along the inside of the sides — the sheet does not chafe on them and lashings tie easily.
How it loads
From three sides. From the side by dropping the panel and lifting the curtain, from above by removing the sheet and using a crane or a lorry loader, and from the rear at a dock. On a route where one stop loads by crane and the next from a dock, that settles it.
Hino chassis cannot be imported right now
Hino is not supplied to Kazakhstan, so the vehicle cannot be repeated on the HINO 300 itself. The body transfers to available chassis of the same class — the JAC N56, JAC N120 or Foton: the subframe changes, deck length and side height are matched to the load, and axle-load calculations are done before work starts. Our other curtain-sides are in the curtain-side section.
