A row of blue SHACMAN X6 crane trucks along the workshop wall - one cab, one crane, one body, repeated down the line.
Blue cab and blue stake-side body, yellow XCMG boom stowed above the bed, white ladder frame behind the cab and a silver side guard along the chassis.
A Ten-Unit Order in One Livery
The order was placed for ten units, and every one of them carries the same blue cab, the same blue stake-side body and the same yellow crane. That uniformity is what a fleet buyer is paying for: one paint code, one crane model, one set of body dimensions, and one spare-parts list that covers all ten trucks.
The chassis is the SHACMAN X6, with the X6 lettering moulded into the bonnet and the SHACMAN badge on the grille. The units are parked in a continuous row in front of the workshop, and the photographs show them at the same stage of completion - bodies fitted, cranes mounted, decks clean, ready for handover.
More than ten identical units parked nose to tail, each with the same yellow crane folded over a blue body, under the long blue roofline of the works.
The Crane: XCMG SQS175-4
The crane is the XCMG SQS175-4, a four-section knuckle boom in the 7-tonne class, finished in the standard XCMG yellow with the model code and the maker's mark on the upper boom. It is mounted on a slewing column directly behind the cab, and the outrigger beams run out under the cargo bed.
In every shot the boom is folded and stowed over the body rather than raised, which is how the trucks are shipped and how they sit between jobs. The hook block is stowed at the boom tip. A ladder frame stands between the cab and the body so the operator reaches the crane platform without climbing over the load.
Blue cabs with the SHACMAN badge, yellow booms visible above the bodies, and the units spaced evenly across the apron.
Blue Body, Chassis and Delivery to Uganda
The cargo body is a blue drop-side type with stake pockets along both sides, a flat floor and a low headboard. The side panels can be removed for side loading, and a silver guard rail runs along the chassis above the rear wheels. The crane base carries a yellow-and-black hazard band, and the rear of each body is finished with the same blue paint as the cab.
The photographs record the finished batch, not a single demonstrator: a continuous row along the wall, a front row at the workshop doors and a three-quarter view of the line. Shipment was arranged to Uganda; each unit leaves the works with its crane documentation, and a repeat order is quoted once the crane capacity and body length are fixed.
SHACMAN X6 lettering on the bonnet, the crane column behind the cab, and the blue body running back to the rear overhang.Close view of the yellow upper boom with the XCMG maker's mark and the SQS175-4 model code, plus the hook block stowed at the tip.The stake posts between cab and body, the blue side panels with stake pockets, and the silver guard running above the rear wheels.
Buying a crane truck fleet for East Africa? Send the crane capacity, body length and destination port - we will confirm the chassis, the XCMG model and the body specification, then return staged and acceptance photographs before dispatch.
Photographed at the CLW works during staging of the ten-unit SHACMAN X6 crane truck order for Uganda, October 2026.