The Mitsubishi Canter 75C15 is a 150hp 7.5 tonner sold through the Mercedes Truck dealer network when new. This good all-rounder has an excellent payload and competes well in this regard with the similar-looking Isuzu N75. This is the lower-powered model at just 150hp – there is a 180hp version also available for those looking for more grunt. Typically bought for high payload, relatively local, operations, expect to find recovery bodies, beavertails and tippers fitted to the Canter 75C15 chassis – nearly always with an automatic transmission.
If you are thinking of buying a recovery truck, it’s worth looking at why other operators specify the truck that they have. Kingsbridge Auto Repair & Rescue have recently taken delivery of their third Fuso Canter, so they must be fans. Their new truck is plated at 7.5 tonnes, but with its 2.5 tonne spec lift and dolly which means that it can recover vehicles as large as a motorhome and as awkward as a 4x4. In addition, the crew cab allows the recovery truck to take not just the broken down vehicle, but also up to six passengers. The…
A Birmingham-based steel stockholder has become one of the first customers in Britain for a vehicle from the latest FUSO Canter light truck range. FH Warden (Steel)’s new 7.5-tonner features a redesigned cab with eye-catching ‘face’, as well as improvements over the outgoing model in comfort and safety. The Canter 7C15 was supplied by Midlands Truck & Van, and will be maintained under a three-year Best Basic Service Plan at the state-of-the-art facility in Smethwick that was opened by the Dealer in 2020. Thanks to a newly developed, compact exhaust system, the new FUSO Canter meets the EURO VI –…
So reliable was Gower Brewery’s first FUSO Canter that when it was finally due for replacement Director Chris Mabbett had no hesitation in returning to South Wales Dealer Euro Commercials for another. Established in 2011, the multi-award-winning Gower Brewery employs traditional methods to produce handcrafted, premium-quality ales at its base on the Crofty Industrial Estate, Pen-clawdd. Like its predecessor, which had been in service since 2013, the company’s new Canter has a gross weight of 7.5 tonnes. As a 7C15 variant it is powered by a 3.0-litre common-rail turbodiesel that produces 150 hp and 370 Nm of torque. The truck…
If you have been used to operating 3.5 tonners, then you would expect to get a much larger payload from a 7.5 tonner. Unfortunately this is not always the case – unless you opt for a lighter chassis like the Fuso Canter which has a body and load allowance of over 5 tonnes. The 7C15 offers a combined body and payload allowance of 5,100 kg, roughly a tonne more than a conventional chassis with the same gross weight A new, high payload Canter, sourced from local Mercedes and Mitsubishi Fuso Dealer Rygor Commercials, has helped the Gloucestershire-based craft baker emerge…
Running a lightweight tipper on a Tarmac job around London needs the best payload. It was the Fuso Canter’s ability to carry as much as a tonne more than a ‘traditional European’ 7.5 tonner that sealed the deal on a replacement for the outgoing Canter for UK Surfacings. The 7.5-tonne Canter is light enough to offer an exceptional body and payload allowance of just under 5.0 tonnes. This exceeds those of more conventional trucks in the same gross weight category by anything up to 1.0 tonne. With an allowance of almost 6.0 tonnes, meanwhile, the 8.55-tonne Canter is on a…