The Buffalo
Scania Heavy Tipper
The Buffalo
The Scania Heavy Tipper engineered to suit the West African mining operations is highly adaptable with great driveability and visibility. It's a well-balanced all round premium cab manufactured to perfection, to suite your business specific needs.
The Buffalo range of Scania trucks brings a distinctive combination of comfort and elegance inside and out. Offering robust options as well as a spacious cab, making it a truly efficient machine for your mine operations.
Robust and reliable
Each Scania is unique. From the moment it leaves our production facilities, its journey begins to serve your unique demands, challenges and operating environments. With excellent equipment-to-payload ratio and greatly improved technical availability, the Scania Heavy Tipper can be specially tailored uniquely for your business operation. It is also designed and tested to enable outstanding durability and reliability that keeps your operation going every day.
Safety at every turn
Operating in the harshest environments, your vehicles must deliver uncompromising safety at all times – to protect your people and keep your operations going for longer. At Scania, our vehicles are the result of generations of thorough research, design and testing, making them exceptionally safe. This is due to the wide array of innovative safety and support systems built in to each Scania vehicle.
Built-in safety
Safety demands a comprehensive approach across both the design and testing stages. Scania’s ergonomic cabin design, systems and driver aids facilitate quicker and more intuitive decision making. This can make all the difference in the splitsecond decisions you face every day. All Scania cabs are approved by the Swedish cab test – one of the world’s toughest impact test.
Safe service
Our mining crews and technicians are trained all over the world with an emphasis on safer ways of working. We’ll help you to push the limits of efficiency without compromising the safety of your crew or operations, so you can achieve maximum uptime with minimal disruption to production.
Operational safety
Sub-standard equipment, spillage and bad roads are the biggest factors which contribute to risk. Scania Site Optimisation helps you to identify risk factors and find suitable measures – resulting in higher productivity with reduced risk.
Scania site optimisation
An integrated framework of tools, methods, and best-practise, Scania Site Optimisation will help you to optimal profitability in your transport process from production to supply. Together, we’ll help you to identify and overcome efficiency gaps which slow down your cycle times, supply logistics, as well as safety and sustainability initiatives – reducing risk and increasing your revenue.
Factors that count
Load
Overloading your vehicles can increase the risk of production stops – while also reducing the vehicle’s lifecycle. Scania will help you to identify pressure points in your loading cycle, to better avoid the risk of queueing, spillage and equipment damage.
Road
Road quality can impact equipment, safety and driver comfort. Scania will help you to measure road quality, providing vital information to ensure your fleet rolls optimall.
Time
Your productivity is optimised through time. By measuring working time against the total available time, as well as cycle and takt time, you can measure the efficiency of your haulage operations and identify ways to optimize your time cycles
Safety
The number one focus in the mining industry, safety is critical to ensuring both the wellbeing of your crew and longevity of your operations. At Scania, all of our products, services, and solutions are tailor-made to your local safety standards, wherever you are in the world.
Sustainability
At Scania, we believe that sustainability begins with your operational efficiency. Scania’s better tare weight-to-payload ratio improves your fuel economy, thereby reducing harmful CO2 emissions and significantly lowering the risk of overloading, queueing and idling.
Take your operations to the next level
Our tailored products, superior on-site services and smart use of real-time data are part of our holistic approach to improve your total operating economy. From load to supply, Scania takes your operations to the next level by helping you to overcome risk factors, reduce logistical waste and deliver productivity which you can rely on, time and again. Allow us to introduce you to Scania and our Buffalo range
in-house Financial Services
By understanding your business needs, risks and vehicle usage, we tailor optimised solutions - both now and in the long run. This is why we offer financing solutions tailored specifically to your needs, with predicatable costs and manageable risks - adding value to your business. Let’s talk about how we can help you do better business.
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Our tailored product offering, on-site services and real-time data collection and monitoring work together to improve your total operating economy.
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