Kenworth C540

The Kenworth Off-Highway Series.

With a requirement to meet the demands of off-highway operators in the mining sector, Kenworth has designed and manufactured it’s biggest ever prime mover, a truck capable of handling extreme heavy-duty workloads in harsh operating conditions.

The C540 has been developed from the successful and durable C510 platform to accommodate the Cummins QSK19-LTA series 19 litre engine installed with the Allison H6610 6 speed automatic transmission. The drive train package provides performance and durability, primarily in heavy haul mine road train applications.

The C540 mining truck, in conjunction with powered trailers, has the capacity to gross 500 tonne; the power to pull up a six to eight per cent gradient; the gearing to cruise at 80kph for 100 kilometres on the flat, and the durability to do it all day, every day.

Designed and built in Australia, from a vast database of experience and engineering know-how, every Kenworth C508/C510 is manufactured exactly for its application, be that mining, heavy haulage or off-highway, so that they carry on where lesser trucks cannot.

The Kenworth C508 and C510 prove themselves daily in some of the roughest and toughest environments on earth.

Kenworth C540 Product Brochure [PDF 357kb]