kscarbel2 Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Heavy Duty Trucking (HDT) / August 12, 2020 Ending an era that lasted 14 years, the final Kenworth K500 cabover was completed in mid-August at its assembly plant in Renton, Washington. The K500 was primarily popular with the OEM’s oil and gas exploration customers. A combination of the Kenworth C500 drivetrain with a modern COE cab, the K500 was a shorter, more maneuverable truck with off-highway characteristics and featured a variety of configurations: 6x4, 6x6, 8x8, and 10x10. Sintagma Holding purchased the last K500, which will be used by the Mining Society of Chitotolo in Luanda, Angola, in a gold mining operation. The first K500 order was in 2006 and went to Karamay, China, as part of a total order of eight K500s. “The Kenworth K500 cabover has been a stellar truck model and provided excellent performance and reliability for our customers worldwide,” said Laura Bloch, Kenworth’s assistant general manager for sales and marketing. . Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
david wild Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Should have put that cab on a smaller chassis and sold as a road tractor, would be a good truck just to bad US truck drivers believe their penis gets bigger the longer the hood ? 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 https://www.paccar.com/media/1920/k500_brochure.pdf https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/59313-kenworth-for-cnpc-china-national-petroleum-corporation/ Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 1 hour ago, david wild said: Should have put that cab on a smaller chassis and sold as a road tractor, would be a good truck just to bad US truck drivers believe their penis gets bigger the longer the hood ? DAF XF105 . 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 Kenworth retiring K500 severe-service truck after 14 years Alan Adler, Freight Waves / August 13, 2020 Kenworth Truck Co. is retiring its K500 severe-service off-highway truck after 14 years. The export-only truck was sold mostly to oil and gas exploration and mining customers in Asia, Russia and Africa. PACCAR built just 283 of the vertical front, “flat face” K500 models in its plant in Renton, Washington. Sintagma Holding purchased the last Kenworth K500 cabover for a gold mining operation of the Mining Society of Chitotolo (Sociedade Mineira do Chitotolo) in Luanda, Angola. The first K500 order in 2006 went to Karamay in China as part of a total order of eight K500s. “The Kenworth K500 cabover has been a stellar truck model, and provided excellent performance and reliability for our customers worldwide,” Laura Bloch, Kenworth assistant general manager for sales and marketing, said in a statement. The K500 uses a combination of the Kenworth C500 drivetrain with a modern cab-over-engine semi-hood. The cab sits forward of the front axle to improve job site visibility with more space than conventional models. Available in a variety of configurations, including 6×4, 6×6, 8×8 and 10×10, the shorter, more maneuverable K500 designed for on-and-off highway use gained popularity with customers, Kenworth said. The Kenworth K500 features a Cummins 525 horsepower engine with 1,650 pound-feet of torque and an Allison 4700RDS 7-speed transmission. It also incorporates AxleTech tandem rear axles rated at 100,000 pounds with a 9.59 rear axle ratio. The front axle is a new Meritor front drive axle rated at 32,000 pounds with a 9.66 axle ratio. Kenworth still offers the 963 and C500 models in oilfields overseas. The C500 also is available in the U.S. and Canada. No replacement cabover is planned at this time, Parietti said. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 K500 Video - https://www.facebook.com/Kenworth.Truck.Co/videos/kenworth-k500/463289034483220/?_fb_noscript=1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Horse Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Beast-never knew it existed. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Does Kenworth still make normal COE truck for the US market ? If so, I wonder why they never used the cab Australia still have a K200 I think it is https://www.kenworth.com.au/trucks/k200/ Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kscarbel2 Posted August 15, 2020 Author Share Posted August 15, 2020 6 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said: Does Kenworth still make normal COE truck for the US market ? If so, I wonder why they never used the cab Australia still have a K200 I think it is https://www.kenworth.com.au/trucks/k200/ Paul Paul, in the states Paccar sells the DAF "LF" rigid, assembled at the Paccar Mexico plant and rebadged as Kenworth and Peterbilt. And Peterbilt alone has a low cab forward refuse chassis, the Model 520, which Kenworth doesn't get much to the anger of Kenworth dealers. So in terms of a normal COE, only the global market K200 is left. Superb truck. But of course DAF is Paccar's Dutch subsidiary, and they offer the new CF and XF, normal COE's which are excellent. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxidyne Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 IIRC the KW/Pete/DAF low cabover uses the same "Club" cab as Volvo/Renault use for their low cabover. So now days if you want a low cabover like the old Mack/Renault or Volvo FL here in America you have to go to a KW or Pete dealer... 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/63748-kenworth-produces-last-severe-service-k500/#findComment-458524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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