Are HINO trucks reliable?

Stateside, they are only available in mid sized trucks, but the companies that use them seem to be happy with them. As for comparisons to Scania, not many of them here so there isn't much to compare with.

 

The 1st District Police Station in Philadelphia Pa has a Hino powered emergency generator. I used to service it and do all the repairs on it. It seemed to be a well built engine. It used some kind of inline injection pump that was a Japenese copy of an American Bosch APE pump like you would find on an older Mack, so I liked that. In fact one time the hand primer pump went bad and I swear an old Mack hand primer would have fit it. My injection parts supplier told me he thinks they are the same.

As far as being reliable it seemed pretty good. It has been down there since 96 and it hasn't had any major problems. But this is a 6 cylinder industrial engine in the 300 HP range and it is a mechanical engine , so I am not sure how this relates to a truck engine built in 2007.

 

I would venture to guess that Hino are a respectable brand. Hino are becoming popular as expediter trucks, they even come with sleepers.

 

Scania is a very popular truck here in Iraq, these guys are crazy in their loads that they put on these trucks and I have yet to see them broke down with the exception of a blown tire. and half the time you would swear that these guys think that they are driving roman chariots with the spinners that they have on their hubs. I will definatly have to try to remember to keep my camera out sometime so that I can get some pictures of these guys going down the road.