A Toyota Group Company

Established over 90 years ago in Japan and now majority owned by Toyota, Hino is the world’s 3rd largest manufacturer of light and medium duty trucks. Today, as Hino celebrates 25 years in America, it has also become the fastest growing medium duty truck OEM in the U.S.A.

Hino entered the U.S. market with a cab-over engine (COE) medium duty truck in 1984, evolving to the current conventional trucks first introduced in the U.S. in 2004.

Hino Trucks now operates corporate, training, parts and manufacturing facilities in the United States, with a growing number of dealers, now totaling more than 180, span the nation. A heritage of design excellence and advanced engineering is reflected in every Hino truck.

Looking to the future, Hino Trucks continues to plan for new technologies and models that meet and exceed both environmental and customer needs. 2010 will see the release of new models meeting stringent emissions standards and has already begun the launch planning for a range of hybrid vehicles that will join the American market with third generation hybrid technology proved in markets overseas.

Hino Trucks, a Toyota Group Company, assembles, sells and services class 4-7 commercial trucks in the United States and is headquartered in Novi, Michigan. With over 180 dealers across the country, Hino Trucks is the fastest growing medium duty truck nameplate in the United States.

Hino was founded in 1942 and has been in business for the past 66 years, with over 2.9 million commercial and medium duty trucks sold in 150 countries.

Hino has been the number one medium duty truck sold in Japan for the last 36 years in a row.

Hino has been in the USA since 1984, and as of November 2007, Hino has been built with pride in Williamstown, West Virginia.  There are 179 Hino dealers in the USA as of September 2008 including Colonial Hino in Lakewood, NJ.

List of some Hino commercial truck standards:

-Aluminum fuel tanks.

-Powder coated wheels.

-Exhaust brake.

-Programmable idle shutdown between 1 and 60 minutes.

-New charcoal interior color.

-AM/FM/CD Radio.

-Air conditioning.

-Davco fuel filter.

-Diesel Particulate Reduction System.

Hino employs a 34” wide, 80,000PSI frame with Huck bolts.  Hino rolls, laser cuts, and powder coats its frames.  Hino uses a dedicated, sealed from the elements, connector box that is located outside, behind the cab area.  No chance of messing up wires when putting a body on the chassis. 

Colonial Hino is an authorized Hino commercial truck dealer in Lakewood, New Jersey.