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AutoreviewYAROVIT of Petersburg and its Minsk pedigreeThe official inauguration of YAROVIT works took place in Saint Petersburg: trucks of the same name will be manufactured here. The company YAROVIT just a few years ago was dealer to MAZ works of Minsk and known to the Russians only as participants of truck trials. Today, it is a Group of Companies with its headquarters in Moscow. YAROVIT is engaged in power engineering, construction… And manufactures its own trucks.
 We already reported on how the new trucks would look in our issue (AutoReview) No 10, 2004 these are trucks designated for hard road and climatic conditions of 6x4 to10x8 wheel formulae. YAROVIT will manufacture only parts of the frame (the frame is joined by bolts and made of Swedish steel) and glass fiber cabs. Everything else will be purchased, for the most part imported.
There is a choice of engines: Deutz, Cummins, Caterpillar, Detroit Diesel. The transmissions are from ZF or Allison. Axles by Sisu or AxleTech. The chassis will mount various superstructures and rigging, every purpose including truck cranes and fire-fighting equipment.
This is what the assembly shop looks like…
 The assembling shop located on the territory of Leningrad Metal Works is well-illuminated and stocked with imported equipment. So far half-empty, to be honest. Very soon building-berth assembling will start here, and if the number of orders exceeds 500 vehicles per year, YAROVIT will switch over to conveyor assembly. Eventually, YAROVIT plans to start manufacturing units and aggregates on the joint venture basis. There is an agreement with the Polish company Hyva to build dumper bodies and talks are underway with the Finnish company Sisu on assembling axles.
So far, five dump trucks have been produced: one of them was tested at Norilsk, the other one at Kingisepp near Petersburg. Negotiations are currently conducted with a number of oil companies, the companies Alrosa and NorNickel.
 …and bodies of the future dump trucksThis year’s plan envisages 250 vehicles and by close of the year 2009 YAROVIT intends to attain the planned production volume of 1800 trucks annually. Competition in this sector of the market is strong and YAROVIT’s prices are on the European level (the trucks will cost from 130000 to164000 Euros). Well, we’ll live we’ll see.
By M. Chernyavski
“AutoReview” Newspaper, No 4/ 2005
DUMP TRUCK BY THE NAME OF GLOROSYou have three attempts to guess: what company has made this dump truck? Beat you? Here’s our prompt: YAROVIT company. Greet it!  The dump truckYAROVIT GLOROS that you see on our photos so far exists as a prototype and the motor works which will manufactures such vehicles is in the stage of preparation for the production launch.
Nevertheless, the vehicle has already been presented to the Governor of Saint Petersburg Valentina Matviyenko, in a ceremony to the blare of the trumpets near Smolny Palace. What is behind this ambitious project?
The prehistory is as follows. In the capital of Belarus, the city of Minsk, there is a company called YAROVIT who are dealers of MAZ Works. In its time, YAROVIT was initiator and organizer of the CIS truck trial Championship; the team MAZ – YAROVIT was star of the European truck trials but later, alas, the motor racing project flopped. And now the company decides to start manufacturing trucks of their own design, and on the territory of Russia. In Saint Petersburg, no other place!
The founders of the CJSC “YAROVIT Motors” are the American company Elgin Systems (owning 51% of the shares) and the British Tracks&Dumpers (49% of the shares): these will invest $40 million in the plant construction. The enterprise itself is located near Finlandski railroad station in Vatutin street on the territory of Leningrad Metal Works.
Eventually YAROVIT plans to manufacture three model lines— GLOROS (cabover), DOGMUS (conventional setup) and ORDEX (cab-in-front-of-engine “special-purpose” chassis). Obviously, the names were chosen so that, on the one hand, they would not ring like the familiar popular truck brands such as Mercedes, Actros and, on the other hand, would sound “foreign”. (We wonder why? Counting on exports?)
Incidentally, we did some research and found out that all the three names already exist in various languages: GLOROS stands for the Russia-Germany economic project called “Globalization of Russia”, DOGMUS means “born” in Turkish, and ORDEX stands for the English-language military abbreviation “ordnance exercise”…
Let’s get back to the vehicles. The gamut will not include long-distance cruisers of the European type, nor city trucks: YAROVIT plans to build vehicles designated first and foremost for bad roads and heavy loads. The wheel formulae list 6x4, 6x6, 8x4, 8x6 (the rare bird!), 8x8, 10x6 and even 10x8. The slated “profdessions” are from heavy tractor to fire trucks and multi-axle crane-trucks.
What units and components will those vehicles be built with? For the most part, imported ones, of different makes.
The engines are from Deutz, Cummins or Caterpillar of from 335 to 598 hp. (to Euro 2 or Euro 3 standards). The transmissions are mechanical ZF and automatic Allison. The transfer cases by Steyr. The frame is with Thyssen Krupp side members. The axles come either from the Finnish Sisu or American AxleTech. The springs are manufactured by Schomacker or Krupp, the shock absorbers by Gerep or Monroe. The steering is the dual-circuit ZF. The braking systems comes from Wabco and Knorr-Bremse (an ABS a must). The electrical equipment is furnished by Hella, Siemens, Bosch.
And, finally, the cab is completely the company’s own design featuring fiber-glass sandwich panels on a metal frame.
As many as four cab versions are envisaged: the “low” one, the “high’ one, a sleeper and a day cab.
As for the 8x8 dump truck that you see in the photos, this one features a 16 cu.m platform outfitted with Hyva hydraulics, Sisu axles and a 408 hp Deutz engine aggregated with a 16-step ZF transmission. The payload is about 25 tons, the gross weight is 43 tons (provided the speed is limited to 60 kmph those characteristics stand at 28 and 46 tons correspondingly).
If everything goes well, the company YAROVIT Motors will become a Russian equal to such firms as, for example, the Dutch GINAF orTerberg who build custom-made and multi-axle trucks in small batches using the components of renowned producers.
There is only one thing that puts one on guard. There already had been a project whereby trucks would be assembled from various imported components (Sisu cabs, Caterpillar engines, etc.). Unfortunately, this one turned out a total flop…
We are talking about the company AltKam which had first been residing with KamAZ and later, in mid-90s, moved to the township of Rasskazovo in Tambov oblast. Having built just a few dozen vehicles (including construction machines), AltKam quit the market.
It turned out that buyers would prefer to pay more but get a “true European” vehicle and not a truck scared up in Russia from assorted “bits and pieces”, especially since AltKam was not in a position to provide adequate after-sale services with their products.
That is why assertions by YAROVIT managers that their new vehicles are more efficient than competitors (including foreign ones like MAN, Scania, Volvo and others) sound premature, to say the least.
It is when the factory will have worked for one-two years in a stable manner and the vehicles prove their worth in real operation, and YAROVIT succeeds in setting up proper services apart from the sales (we wonder what the prices will be?), then one may talk about effectiveness.
The works inauguration is planned for August, and 50 trucks have to be assembled by close of the year.
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