Tata LPT 1918 Cowl

Overview

The medium-duty cargo truck market caters the long-haul transportation needs, mainly on intercity routes in India commercial vehicle market. Tata Motors, India's top truck brand, the LPT 1918 cowl rigid truck is Tata Motors' tried and tested product at the start of the medium-duty segment just before the promising 28T multi-axle heavy-duty category. If you’re looking to buy either a 19-tonne GVW cargo truck, then the Tata LPT 1918 Cowl is the best truck in the category; the cowl configuration of this top truck allows you to build the body privately. In the same category, Tata Motors also offers fully-built best truck options such as the Ultra 1918.T and LPT 1918 5L Turbotronn Cowl. 

Among the popular Indian truck, the LPT 1918 is an 18,500 kg gross weight category truck ideal for medium or long trips and several applications such as cement, sand, Agri, poultry, packed LPG, - 306, municipal applications and also white goods, FMCG, e-com, reefer, 2W-carrier and parcel & courier, etc.

Starting at a critical segment of the Tata Motors portfolio of HCVs, the LPT 1918 Cowl is an affordable, robust, powerful and highly productive truck. Packed with the proven Cummins engine along with some of the best truck aggregates to make it a performance power-house, helping you run a profitable transport business. Like Tata Motors' promise with the new BS6 trucks, the LPT 1918 comes with the power of 6 characteristics: Power of enhanced performance, the total cost of ownership, comfort, and convenience, power of connectivity, and total peace of mind.

Tata Motors also equipped LPT 1918 with new value features to help customers benefit from superior fuel economy, productivity, serviceability, safety and driving comfort. The LPT 1918 is available in application-specific fully built options like high side deck, drop-down deck or fixed side deck, container, reefer and customizable special applications. Read to know more about this truck.

Exterior 

The LPT 1918 is offered as a Cowl model; this means you only get the chassis and open cabin. So there aren’t many factory built exterior elements to explain this truck. However, to make it a productive truck, Tata Motors offers you a lot inside the cabin that we explain in the interior section. Meanwhile, some of the key aggregates from the exterior you see include a twin polymer fuel tank with a 365L capacity in a long wheelbase. It is built-in high strength-to-density ratio thermoplastic corrosion resistant, allowing cleaner fuel supply and total leak-free, high chemical & impact resistance. Anti-fuel theft telematics enabled fuel level sensor mounted on the fuel tank to detect fuel theft and sends digital communication to the owner on mobile.

Equally important are the 295/90R20 radial tube tyres in front and rear, designed with a 90% aspect ratio for higher payload; they help in a 3-4% higher fuel economy due to lower rolling resistance. Also, almost zero interchangeability with 10R20 tyres due to the same wheel rim size, usage comfort, and stocking ease. Truck owners spend a lot of money on tyres throughout truck ownership; hence, high-quality tyres and fuel mileage benefits go well in cost savings. Likewise, the chassis frame is heavy duty and comes with ladder-type in 285 x 65 x 6 m. The deck length is 5486 mm and 9754 mm, along with wheelbase options of 4255 mm and 6787 mm.  

Interior

The LPT 1918 Cowl gets a new generation instrument cluster with advanced driver-friendly features such as average fuel economy indicator plus distance to empty digital service reminders, and digital air & oil pressure gauges. You also get a digital DEF gauge, digital battery voltage indicator, driver coaching feature including gear shift advisor, 3-mode fuel economy switch, and over-speed alert. A DPF regeneration indicator, SCR System fault indicator, high exhaust system temperature indicator, air filter clogged indicator, low DEF indicator. The truck also comes with AT AMT packaging TPMS Packaging Electronic Stability Control packaging Cruise Control packaging.

Modern telematics with advanced features for fleet, trip & business Management. Tata Motors aims to enhance the truck's overall productivity through telematics, helping the customer use the truck effectively, and keeping the truck on the move with minimum breaks. Thus, the asset utilisation remains high, and more revenue generation potential. Also, to make the driver comfortable for fatigue-gree driving, a forced Ventilation with a blower comes as a standard in the truck.

Performance  

To give your business the best-performing truck, and help you run a trouble-free and durable truck, Tata Motors has done everything to offer you a value for money product. First, obviously, the powertrain determines the power and efficiency you’re likely to get from this truck. The LPT 1918 Cowl comes with a proven Cummins ISBe 5.6 BS6 180 engine. It produces 180hp of power at a whopping 850 Nm of torque and is tuned to a familiar standard TATA G750 manual synchromesh gearbox. 

Tata Motors says this engine offers 4% higher power for better-loaded pickup, 21% higher torque for excellent load pulling and higher gradeability for multi-terrain suitability. Furthermore, the vehicle's performance is ensured by a high torque & low RPM engine for higher fuel efficiency, a two-stage fuel filter for optimized fuel usage, and an electronic viscous fan for greater fuel savings. 

Everything comes to complement the engine on the aggregate side, such as a heavy-duty 7T reverse Elliot type axle at the front and a banjo type single reduction rear axle. The axles ensure 9% higher torque at the wheel for superior loaded traction on all terrains and sturdier wheel bearings for excellent tyre life.

The BS6 emission has made the engine a power factory with a lot of complexity to reduce emissions. So, the LPT 1918 comes with diesel oxidation catalyst + diesel particulate filter, selective catalytic reduction, and ammonia slip catalyst. For robust emission governance, a globally proven Euro VI equivalent compliance. The same BSIV DEF can be used. A higher performance-enhanced fluid economy due to cleaner-burning generates less soot giving longer uninterrupted runs due to less DPF cleaning. 

It is evident with the high-quality powertrain and aggregates, and Tata Motors ensures that the truck you’re buying has a new and contemporary offering to run it effectively over a long period. 

Verdict

The Tata LPT 1918 Cowl gets all the performance elements at an affordable cost to take your fleet to the next level. The Cowl models allow you to build a cabin and body privately as per the application needs and at a reasonable cost. The Tata LPT 1918 offers a value for money proposition with its overall built quality, aggregates, and Tata Motors trust. Before you make a final decision, explore this Tata truck; and most likely, LPT 1918 won’t disappoint you, as Tata Motors packed this truck quite well, making it a compelling offering. 

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