Toyota Diesel ---- Will They Ever?

Jim-Linda wrote:

Lessmore wrote:
I know it's a Toyota owned, commercial truck company, not designed to be a Cadillac on a truck frame, but has anyone seen a Hino truck pulling an RV ?

Looked at the Hino 195DC on the Hino website. It has a ...dual cab, 4 doors seating for 5-6. Diesel 210 hp, 440 ft. lbs torque, 6 speed Aisin automatic. Warranty is tremendous for powertrain.

I recall in the deep and dark recesses of my mind that Nissan used to have a similar commercial truck...that I remember was outfitted to pull a large RV trailer. This would be about 20 years ago.

Wonder if there is potential for Hino to enter the RV towing market ? Some may feel 210 hp/ 440 ft. lbs of torque maybe inadequate.

You are probably thinking about the UD1800. We had one in '94 after our Ford 7.3, E40D crapped a tranny in the middle of Yellowstone. The truck was a cabover, extended cab, 6 speed manual with the best exhaust brake I have seen. Terrible ride even with air rear added. It served us until I retired in '96 when DW said with a straight face, "if you think i'm going to row the shifter from now on, you are out of your mind.
That put us in a FL60 w/Allison that we still have today.

Jim

That's the Nissan truck that I was thinking of. By the sounds of it, it was quite commercial and heavy duty...going by the ride you've described. Shifting a standard transmission in a commercial truck is not everybody's cup of tea, nowadays there are probably more automatic options. I drove some commercial trucks back in the '70's and I must admit, shifting a manual transmission, day in...day out...the novelty wore out rather quickly for me. :B

I think, however your Freightliner 60 with the Allison automatic must be a tremendous tow vehicle. Sounds like an excellent choice, more than able to handle large RV's.

I do sometimes wonder why more RVers who have large, heavy RV's don't consider something like your FL60.