Hino SH1EESA

The Hino SH1EESA is designed keeping in mind the aspect of functionality over everything else. This is quite evident from the way its cabin has been laid out. While it feels practical with every control in an easy reach to the driver and a lot of storage spaces here and there, the overall layout and finish of the dashboard look dated to today’s standards. 

The driver’s cockpit of the Hino SH1EESA, which is a combination of a two-spoke steering wheel and a simple but comprehensive-looking instrument console, is a boring place to be on. The centre console of the Hino SH1EESA too looks bland in its appearance but manages to impress with its housing of a few open storage spaces and a provision for an infotainment system, which otherwise is not present in the cabin. 

The Hino SH1EESA matches the personality of other full-size trucks by having a tall and squared personality when it is looked at from the front. The overall design of the Hino SH1EESA sees a lot of inspiration from geometrical shapes in its bits and components throughout. 

The Hino SH1EESA looks quite tall from the front, and the entire front profile of the truck has been divided into two halves. The first half naturally is covered by the large windshield, which gets a curved lower edge.

Taking the centre stage of the front profile of the Hino SH1EESA is a large rectangular grille housing, which constitutes of a series of multiple horizontal chrome finished slats one over the other – three to be exact. The last slat in the series is extended on the front bumper, while the uppermost slat has got a large Hino logo in the middle of it.

There are big triangular amber turn indicators mounted on the lower edges of the front apron. The large front bumper looks in symphony with the rest of the squared out front profile, with its corners getting headlamps that have rounded edges.

The geometrical influence can be further seen in the side profile of the Hino SH1EESA, with the door panels having trapezoidal carvings on the inner edges. These carvings do manage to bring some character to the simple-looking side profile. The Hino SH1EESA is adorned with all the traditional bits of a full-size heavy-duty truck, like thick looking side body cladding over the wheel arches and a slanted shoulder line for the side window panels.

The overall chassis components of the Hino SH1EESA have been shared a lot with other 700 Series of heavy-duty trucks from Hino. The suspension combination of semi-elliptical leaf springs with shock absorbers and stabilizer at the front and semi-elliptical leaf springs with torque rods at the back ensures that the Hino SH1EESA has a tremendous load-carrying capacity.

The Hino FS1E gets leading and trailing shoes for front and rear wheels with auto brake shoe adjuster and full air dual circuit ‘S’ cam-type service brakes. For parking duties, the Hino SH1EESA comes fitted with a spring brake acting on the front and rear frontward wheels.

Powering the Hino SH1EESA is a large 13-liter inline six-cylinder water-cooled turbocharged diesel engine, which comes fitted with overhead camshafts and intercooler. Coupled with a 7-speed manual gearbox, this heavy-duty engine has the capacity to pump out 410 PS of maximum power output and 1863 Nm of maximum torque output.

The only prominent safety feature in the equipment list of the Hino SH1EESA is ABS.

The Hino SH1EESA might be a small truck in size as compared to the rest of the line-up of 700 Series of heavy-duty offerings. However, the engine and other chassis components shared with the other trucks in its line-up makes it an equally capable offering.