MAZ-6303

The MAZ-6303 is a Belarusian large-capacity three-axle lorry built at the Minsk Automobile Plant since 1993. It belongs to the third generation of MAZ trucks and is the three-axle version of the MAZ-5336 with various minor updates. Variants were made on its base: the MAZ-6301 with a 6x2 layout, the all-wheel-drive MAZ-6317 with a 6x6 layout, and the MAZ-5516 dump truck with a 6x4 layout. It meets the TIR requirements for carrying various loads in the system of international transit haulage, and it is used as a long-distance road train together with the MAZ-83781 trailer. The first trucks had a 330 horsepower YaMZ-238D diesel engine, the same engine as in earlier MAZ tractor units such as the MAZ-6422 and MAZ-5432, instead of the 240 horsepower YaMZ-238M2 of the MAZ-5336. YaMZ engines meeting Euro-1 were fitted from 1995, Euro-2 from 1997 and Euro-3 from 2008, and from 2014 Cummins engines meeting Euro-4. The article gives a top speed of 100 km/h, a kerb mass of 11.2 tonnes and a gross mass of 24.5 tonnes.