Sinotruk HOWO 5 Ton Flatbed Tow Truck 4x2 Rollback Wrecker for Highway Emergency Recovery

2 a.m., highway patrol radio crackles: two trucks tangled, one with a snapped axle, diesel across the deck. That call is what this truck was built for. The HOWO 4X2 wrecker -- buyers also call it a tow truck, recovery truck or breakdown vehicle -- lifts, winches and tows in one machine, clearing wrecked rigs off the road before a fender-bender turns into a 10-kilometer jam.

Why pick this over a light flatbed? Numbers talk. A light wrecker on a YN4102 chassis lifts about 3 tons and tows 5. This HOWO rig sits on the real Sinotruk ZZ1167N4617A chassis — not a knock-off — and it handles 12,000 kg on the lift and 20,000 kg on the tow. That’s roughly triple the working capacity of lighter units, yet the FOB price is only 40–60% higher. The math speaks for itself.. One truck now covers jobs that used to need two.

We build these in-house on original HOWO chassis -- no third-party rebody, no cut corners. Year‑after‑year repeat orders from fleet buyers in Nigeria, Peru and Uzbekistan for the exact same specs speak louder than any sales brochure.

Important boom details: rated lift is 5,745 kg, 4,000 kg when the boom is fully extended. Boom travel:1,700 mm, folding angle up to 90 degrees. There are two winches; each can pull 6,000 kg with 40 m steel cable.

Our Services

Custom jobs we run every week:

- LHD / RHD conversion for Kenya, Tanzania, UAE and Australia

- Euro 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 engines matched to your destination registration rules

- Extra toolboxes, U-shape tire forks, LED arrow boards, hand-wash tank

- Your paint code, company logo and decals -- OEM or ODM, both fine

- Under-lift, rotator boom or flatbed-with-crane combos on request

Packing and logistics: lead time 15-25 workdays from deposit, MOQ 1 unit. RORO out of Qingdao or Shanghai is the default; bulk vessel and 40 ft flat rack work too. Every unit gets wax-sprayed and photographed before loading -- you see the photos before paying the balance, standard practice on our side.

Quality and certification: ISO 9001, CCC and CE. Nothing ships without a 30-item factory check -- hydraulic pressure test, winch pull to 110% of rating, boom cycle test, brake lines, lights, the lot. Warranty runs one year on engine, gearbox and axles, or 100,000 km, whichever hits first.

Applications

Highway and expressway patrol -- first response for breakdowns and collisions on toll roads; the 12T rating recovers loaded rigid trucks, not just cars.

Municipal traffic departments -- clearing illegally parked or abandoned vehicles in tight city centers where a 6X4 rotator cannot maneuver.

Fleet and insurance recovery -- the under-lift carries a second disabled vehicle behind the one on the hook, so one trip moves two machines.

Port and logistics yards -- repositioning dead trailers and container chassis around terminals.

Mining and construction sites -- pulling stuck or damaged dump trucks off unpaved haul roads.

Product Series

The same HOWO platform stretches up and down:

- 4X2 light flatbed, 116HP, 3-5T -- city work, one car on the deck plus one in tow

- 4X2 rotator, 10T swing boom -- narrow-road recovery

- 6X4 heavy wrecker, 336-420HP, 20-60T -- full highway rescue duty

- 8X4 twin-boom, up to 60T -- serious accident recovery

Engine picks run 116 / 154 / 290 / 336 / 400 HP. Emission Euro 2 through Euro 5. LHD or RHD, your call. Tell us the typical job and road conditions and we will spec the right unit.