MAZ-6501

The MAZ-6501 is a family of Belarusian large-capacity lorries of the fourth generation of MAZ vehicles, built at the Minsk Automobile Plant since 2008. They succeed the dump trucks of the previous generation, the MAZ-5516, and are built in parallel with them. The truck has a cab-over-engine layout and a 6x4 wheel arrangement and is meant for carrying loose and bulk cargo on hard-surfaced roads, including cobbled and crushed-stone roads, and on dirt roads. Its payload is 20 to 23 tonnes and engine power ranges from 250 to 435 horsepower. It is made as a chassis, a dump truck and a grain-carrying dump truck. Versions are named by their engine, among them the MAZ-6501A5 with a 330 horsepower YaMZ-6582.10 to Euro-3, the MAZ-6501B5 with a 312 horsepower YaMZ-536.10 to Euro-4, the MAZ-6501M7 with a Mercedes-Benz OM 470 engine, and the MAZ-6501E9 grain truck with a 435 horsepower Mercedes-Benz OM 501LA to Euro-5. The MAZ-6516 is an 8x4 dump truck based on it with a payload of up to 35 tonnes.