Kenworth C510

The Kenworth C510 is an off-highway heavy haulage truck built by Kenworth in Bayswater, Victoria, for mining operations in Australia. Kenworth's own brochure describes it as developed to meet the needs of mine haul operations, with a 19 litre engine rated at 600 hp, a manual transmission and a cooling system sized to cope with ambient temperatures above 50 degrees Celsius in remote mines. A higher cab, a larger radiator core and a hydraulic fan drive are part of the package. It is offered as a 6x4 hub reduction tandem-drive or an 8x6 hub reduction tri-drive, and each truck is custom engineered to its application on a high tensile steel chassis with 295 mm rails. The C510 belongs to the C Series of Kenworth Australia, alongside the C509 and the larger C540, and is aimed at heavy road train work where a prime mover pulls powered trailers over mine haul roads.