OREANDA-NEWS.  KAMAZ took part in the International Motor Transportation in Volga Federal District regional conference which was held in Nizhny Novgorod on the initiative of Association of International Road Carriers.
Over 60 international hauliers participated in the event. Aleksandr Gerasimenko, Minister of Transport and Motorroads of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, opened the conference. The participants discussed the state of international motor transportation in Volga Federal District and considered ways to improve Russian carriers’ competitiveness.

One of the keys to successful business in this industry is a modern truck fleet. Of no less importance is profitability of a truck which enables to cover its cost in a short time. Andrey Ovchinnikov, Director for Innovation Products at KAMAZ FINANCE AND TRADING COMPANY, addressed the conference with the presentation of a new KAMAZ-5490 linehaul truck tractor – “a Russian answer to the foreign auto industry”. The hauliers welcomed the presentation of the high performance vehicle. According to Andrey Ovchinnikov, the potential buyers were shown screenshots of satellite monitoring along the course Naberezhnye Chelny – Moscow covered by a truck at 25-30 degrees Celsius of frost. They contained parameters of the traversed path, speed and average fuel consumption (37 L/100 km) of the loaded KAMAZ linehaul train which belongs to one of Naberezhnye Chelny’s carriers.

So, the hauliers got first-hand reliable information on operational effectiveness of the new long-haul tractor – the best truck for Russian roads and climate at a lower life cycle cost as compared with import analogues.
After the conference, the participants examined the new truck with interest: it was displayed at the ASMAP Privolzhye-2014 exhibition by the company’s regional dealer – Nizhegorodskiy tsentr KAMAZ.