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32 Tonne Trucks for Sale (152)
32 tonne trucks or 32 tonners are also known as 8-wheelers, four axle rigids or 8×4 (or 8×2) trucks. The ‘32 tonnes’ relates to the gross vehicle weight (total maximum weight of the truck chassis, body and load).
These trucks help to build our country. They are extremely popular in the construction sector – from an 8×4 tipper on road building fitted with an insulated tipping body for Tarmac to an 8×2 truck with a heavyweight truck mounted crane for heavy lifting jobs about the site.
Other key sectors include waste and bulk feeds and grain – anything that you need to cram into a bulk truck body!
Used 32 Tonne Trucks
If you are interested in narrowing down your search further, you can view the two main types of rigid truck that make up the 32-tonne category.
More About 32 Tonne Trucks
Axle Options for a 32 Tonner
Trucks with 8×2 Axles
These trucks only have one drive axle – of the remaining three, one, two or all three of them could be used for steering. The configuration could vary, depending upon the loading requirements of the truck’s duty cycle.
Think beavertail/cheesewedge plant trucks or heavy machinery movers with large cranes. With only one drive axle, it is unlikely that these trucks are suited to off road building site work. That’s the job of an 8×4 32 tonner.
Trucks with 8×4 Axles
These 32-tonne trucks will be happy on and off building sites, as the additional drive axle provides more grip – albeit at the cost of a degree of manoeuvrability. Most of the 8×4 trucks will have all the wheels on the ground all the time, (no lift axles), although Scania launched a rear lift option for their double drive bogies in 2021.
Latest News About 32 Tonne Trucks
New Volvo FMX Suction Excavator – ‘A 550HP Hoover’
To the uninitiated, a suction excavator enables the operator to dig around existing pipes and cables in the road where a traditional ‘digger’ could easily damage them. These impressive truck-mounted machines are not cheap but are becoming increasingly familiar sights on the UK’s roads. Civil engineering contractors W M Donald has added another suction excavator to its fleet – taking delivery of a new Volvo FMX 540 Globetrotter, mounted with a triple fan suction excavator from MTS. The striking 8x4 Tridem rigid, decked out in the firm’s deep blue livery, will be used to help the Aberdeen-based business in its…
FIRST RENAULT TRUCKS FOR CONCRETE MIXER FLEET
As part of a programme of significant growth within its mixer truck fleet, specialist suppliers of Transport and Plant Hire services, Explore Transport Limited, has added Renault Trucks to its vehicle line-up for the first time. Supplied by Border Trucks, a total of eight Renault Trucks C430 8x4s – five with Day Cab, two with Day & Night Cab, and one High Sleeper - all equipped with 8 cubic metre McPhee mixer bodies, have joined the 40-strong Explore Transport fleet, delivering ready mix concrete on the Main Works Civils Contracts for various customers across HS2 as well as on general…
Conquest Deal for 60 New Volvo FMX Tippers
Electrical problems from their outgoing trucks prompted a change of truck supplier for Thame-based West Coast Haulage. It’s a big deal too, as the company is taking delivery of 60 Volvo FMX tippers in one of the largest deals for the new model to-date, making Volvo the main supplier to the 100-strong fleet. West Coast Haulage has added 60 new Volvo FMX trucks to its fleet. This order was secured by Tim Atkins, Sales Manager at Volvo Truck and Bus Centre South & East, with each of the new FMX tippers featuring Volvo’s distinctive new digital dashboard, which includes a…
Mercedes on Electric Refuse Path
With a near-exclusive Mercedes fleet, waste management specialist Select Environmental Services is well on the path to making their fleet as green as can be. Lithium powered compactor bodies and electric vans running around is a solid start. The company is waiting for the factory-built eEconic to arrive in 2022 to start replacing their all Euro 6 fleet. The latest additions are the first front-end loader and a 6x2 Actros that has a lithium-powered compaction body, arriving via City West Commercials, an established supplier to the Reading-based operator. Family-owned Select provides bespoke recycling, waste management and confidential shredding services across…
Waste Fleet Changing to Volvo Trucks
Despite not buying any Volvo trucks ‘for many a year’, Dean Willshee, Owner of Willshees Waste & Recycling has started to order the Swedish brand once more with three trucks just delivered and a further two on the way. The Burton-based company’s recent deliveries are two FM 8x4 rigids and one FH Globetrotter 6x2 tractor unit. These three will be joined at the company by a pair of new model FMXs and one new model FH tractor unit later in the year. Willshees Waste & Recycling has added two Volvo FM 8x4 rigids and one FH 6x2 tractor unit to…
