Leyland Cruiser

The Leyland Cruiser was a forward-control tractor unit and tipper of the British Leyland Motor Corporation, introduced in 1982 below the Roadtrain in the range and built around the T45 cab. Because of the British road transport weight limits then in force its gross weight stopped at 28 tonnes as a tractor and 10 to 18 tonnes as a tipper, and it was offered only as a 4x2. It replaced the Leyland Buffalo, whose chassis it largely inherited; the Buffalo had used the Leyland and AEC Ergomatic cab of the 1960s. The Cruiser was powered by the TL11 six-cylinder diesel of 210 or 230 PS, raised to the 260 PS TL11C in 1985, normally with a Fuller R10 gearbox and an Albion hub-reduction rear axle. The cab was the smaller T45 in normal or double sleeper form, without a high roof, and there was no alternative engine from another maker. Production ended in 1990 after the merger into Leyland DAF and the relaxed weight rules, and the Roadtrain, sold as the Leyland DAF 70/80, took its place.