OREANDA-NEWS. March 22, 2007 the vehicle is universal and designed for transporting various types of changeable car bodies - containers, platforms, tanks, cabins, etc. It can be used in community services for urban ore removal, for road maintenance and repair and also in building and forest industry, reported the press-centre of  KAMAZ. There was presented MS-1 K municipal vehicle of 14 t payload based on KAMAZ-53229 (6x4) chassis. The first 12 models are built in “Glavtotekh” Ltd., the daughter enterprise of “Autosila” OJSC (Moscow), one of the largest KAMAZ dealers. “Glavtotekh” works in Naberezhnye Chelny at premises of KAMA Industrial Master Park.

 
The special equipment of the new vehicle is released by the holding company “Podyomnye mashiny” from Pskovsk region. The presented vehicle is the first project of the holding together with “Avtosila” and KAMAZ Inc., but seemingly not the last one. To date, by designing new models the holding is oriented on KAMAZ branded products as the most widely purchased trucks.  The first batch of the municipal vehicles will be delivered to the organizations of the RF Ecological foundation. There was also developed a heavy-duty municipal unit of 20 t payload based on KAMAZ chassis, and also a vehicle based on medium range KAMAZ-4308 chassis – with more compact changeable containers.

Akhat Urmanov, Deputy Director General of KAMAZ Sales and Service Department confirmed that nowadays KAMAZ is an absolute leader at the special equipment market due to its sales volumes (with share more than 50%) and technical development. The Company cooperates with about 200 special equipment plants, together with which there were built more than 1000 types and models of special vehicles based on chassis.