The biggest dump truck in India on public record is the Hitachi that NTPC flagged off at its Pakri Barwadih coal mine in Jharkhand in May 2018, described then as a 280-tonne truck and rated at 254 tonnes in a 2020 trade report. Coal India’s largest class is 240 tonnes: 72 trucks at three South Eastern Coalfields mines on 30 November 2025, with 163 more in the 190 to 200 tonne class. The biggest made in India is BEML’s BH205E (190 to 205 tonnes), and the biggest battery-electric is BEML’s BH60-EV at 54,500 kg. No list price is published; Coal India’s 240-tonne order works out to about Rs 30 crore a truck, spares included.

India’s giant trucks carry 240 to 280 tonnes a load. Yet the overburden tender Bharat Coking Coal set to close on 5 November 2026 asks its contractor for tippers with a 19.5 m³ body. The record trucks work in a handful of very large pits run by Coal India and NTPC. The hauling a contractor can actually bid for is sized for tippers, and that gap is what this list is about.

How this list was built

We counted rigid dump trucks that a public document places in a named Indian mine, and ranked them by rated payload in tonnes. The sources are the Ministry of Coal’s Annual Report 2025-26, Coal India and BEML statements and stock exchange filings, maker announcements and an Indian Bureau of Mines inspection report. Everything was checked in November 2026.

A truck that a maker only lists for sale is left out. Tata Hitachi’s India range, for example, includes the EH5000AC-3 at a nominal payload of over 296 tonnes, but we found no record of one working here. Machine ranges by maker are covered in the guide to types of tipper and dumper and the list of tipper manufacturers in India.

Biggest dump truck in India: the list by payload

Payload class Truck Where it works Owner / operator Record and date
250-280 tonnes Hitachi (EH4500 in a 2020 report) Pakri Barwadih coal mine, Jharkhand NTPC; Thriveni Sainik as MDO Flagged off May 2018
240 tonnes 240-tonne class, incl. Belaz Gevra Expansion, Dipka, Kusmunda South Eastern Coalfields 72 in service, 30 Nov 2025
About 220 tonnes Komatsu 830E Pakri Barwadih NTPC; Thriveni Sainik Reported Nov 2020
190-205 tonnes BEML BH205E Amlohri and Nigahi Northern Coalfields 8 ordered Apr 2020
181 tonnes Hitachi EH3500AC-3 Singrauli coalfield Northern Coalfields First set handed over 27 Oct 2023
150 tonnes BEML BH150E Gevra South Eastern Coalfields 7 ordered Apr 2020
100 tonnes BEML BH100 Northern Coalfields mines Northern Coalfields 28 ordered May 2024
91 tonnes Komatsu HD785-7 Noamundi iron mine, Jharkhand Tata Steel 8 working in 2017-18

The record holder works for a power company

Pakri Barwadih is NTPC’s captive coal mine, not a Coal India pit. When the Power Secretary flagged off its new truck in May 2018, it was billed as India’s largest dump truck, a 280-tonne Hitachi loaded by a 36 m³ Liebherr shovel. The mine is run by Thriveni Sainik, a joint venture of Thriveni Earthmovers and Sainik Mining, under a 25-year mine developer and operator (MDO) contract from September 2015. A November 2020 report in International Mining put the overburden fleet at 254-tonne Hitachi EH4500s and 220-tonne Komatsu 830Es. No source we found explains the gap between 280 and 254, so treat the class as 250 to 280 tonnes.

Coal India’s biggest: 240 tonnes, in three mines

The Ministry of Coal’s Annual Report 2025-26 says 42 m³ shovels with 240-tonne rear dumpers run at Gevra Expansion, Dipka and Kusmunda. As on 30 November 2025 it counted 72 dumpers of 240 tonnes and 163 of 190 to 200 tonnes. The 190 to 200 tonne trucks work with 20 m³ shovels at Amlohri, Dudhichua, Jayant, Khadia and Nigahi in Northern Coalfields, and at Rajmahal in Eastern Coalfields.

The biggest single order for the class went to Belaz of Belarus. Coal India signed for 96 trucks in early 2021, 84 for Gevra and 12 for Kusmunda, after a global tender. The 2025 count of 72 is below that order, and the report does not say how many Belaz trucks are among them. These mines belong to the largest producers in the list of top mining companies in India.

Outside coal, trucks are smaller

Iron ore pits run far smaller trucks. An Indian Bureau of Mines inspection of Tata Steel’s Noamundi iron mine, dated 12 March 2019, lists eight Komatsu HD785-7 trucks of 91 tonnes as its haul fleet for 2017-18. Our search found no public record of a truck above 100 tonnes in a limestone, copper or zinc mine.

Which is the biggest dumper made in India?

BEML’s BH205E. BEML says it designed and developed the truck in 2014 as a 190 to 205 tonne dump truck, and it is built at the company’s Mysuru complex. In April 2020 Coal India ordered eight, which BEML’s stock exchange filing called 190-tonne dumpers, for Amlohri and Nigahi. The same Rs 398 crore order covered seven BH150E trucks of 150 tonnes for Gevra, with eight years of spare parts. The BH205E has an electric drive, but the power comes from a diesel engine.

The truck sets the size of the machine that loads it. The ministry pairs 240-tonne trucks with 42 m³ shovels, and the Tata Hitachi EX 8000-6 lists a 40 to 43 m³ bucket. The 190-tonne class works with 20 m³ shovels, the range of the Tata Hitachi EX 3600-6 at 21 to 23 m³. The other giants are in the round-up of India’s largest excavators.

Which is the biggest electric dump truck in India?

On battery power, BEML’s BH60-EV, unveiled at Mysuru on 30 September 2026. BEML states a payload of 54,500 kg with a 36.4 m³ rock body and a 1,000 kWh lithium-ion battery. No price, delivery date or customer was announced, so it is a launch, not yet a working fleet. The battery machines shown so far are tracked in electric tipper and dumper makers in India.

For contrast, the biggest road-legal tipper on Tata Motors’ India truck site, read in October 2026, is the Signa 4832.TK in the 48-tonne class. That 48 tonnes is gross vehicle weight, truck and load together. The smallest truck in the table carries about twice that as payload alone.

What size do contractors actually haul with?

Bharat Coking Coal’s HEMM-105 tender shows the other end. It covers overburden removal and coal extraction at Kantapahari Patch III in Katras Area, for six years, at an estimated value of about Rs 536.5 crore. Dated 15 October 2026, it asks for:

  • excavators with buckets of at least 3.1 m³, 18.6 m³ in total each day;
  • overburden tippers of at least 19.5 m³, 351 m³ in total, or 18 tippers at the minimum size;
  • coal tippers of at least 20 tonnes, 100 tonnes in total.

The fleet may be owned or hired. That is the market most owners can enter, and the wider fleet of a mine is set out in the guide to mining equipment.

Big dump truck price in India: what the contracts show

No maker publishes a list price for a mining dump truck in India. Buyers such as Coal India purchase them through tenders, and the price comes bundled with years of spares, so the truck alone is never priced. The contract figures that are public:

  • Coal India and Belaz: Rs 2,900 crore for 96 trucks of 240 tonnes, with spares and consumables for eight years (signed early 2021). That is about Rs 30.2 crore a truck on our arithmetic.
  • Northern Coalfields and BEML: Rs 250 crore for 28 BH100 trucks of 100 tonnes, with a five-year spare parts contract (BEML press release, 17 May 2024), or about Rs 8.9 crore a truck.
  • Coal India and BEML: Rs 398 crore including taxes for seven 150-tonne and eight 190-tonne trucks, with eight years of spares (24 April 2020).

These are contract values, not showroom prices. Exchange rates, import duty and the length of the spares deal all change the number, which is why two orders for similar trucks can differ widely.

To bid for the hauling these mines hire out, track HEMM hire and overburden removal tenders on DesiMachines Opportunities.

Specifications, fleet counts and contract values change, so confirm current terms with the mine owner, the OEM or the tendering authority before you decide.