Ashok Leyland Partner 6 Tyre 2820/HSD/11 ft

Buying the Ashok Leyland Partner 6 Tyre 2820/HSD/11 ft is a bet on cargo density. If your loads are heavy and compact, this is the smartest variant in the Partner 6 Tyre range. If your loads are light and bulky, it is the wrong truck at the right price. Here is why.

Ashok Leyland Partner 6 Tyre 11 Feet Payload

Start with arithmetic that nobody publishes.

Kerb weight is 2,605 kg. GVW is 7,490 kg. That leaves 4,885 kg of chassis payload. This variant is rated at 4,579 kg, so the box body accounts for the missing 306 kg.

Now the part that matters. The 17-foot version of this truck carries exactly the same 4,579 kg. Six extra feet of deck buys you no additional weight at all. It buys floor.

So work out which limit you hit first. Load an 11-foot deck with cement bags, tiles, steel sections, rice or fertiliser, and you will reach 4,579 kg well before the body is full. That is a weight-limited load, and this truck is built for exactly that.

Load the same deck with cartons, packaged goods or courier consignments, and you will run out of floor with hundreds of kilos still unused. That is a volume-limited load, and you should be buying the 17-foot body instead.

Neither truck is better. They answer different questions.

Ashok Leyland Partner 6 Tyre Engine, Brakes and Payload

The ZD30 DDTi is a 2,953cc four-cylinder diesel producing 140 hp at 2,750 rpm and 360 Nm anywhere between 1,350 and 2,750 rpm. On a 7.5-tonne truck, the width of that torque band matters more than the peak number. You pull away loaded without slipping the clutch, and you take a flyover in third instead of second.

Behind it sits a five-speed manual gearbox driving through a 310 mm single dry plate clutch. Top speed is capped at 80 km/h.

Braking is vacuum-assisted hydraulic rather than air. At 7,490 kg that is adequate rather than generous. ABS is not fitted. The parking brake is transmission mounted and cable operated. Gradeability is 25 percent, so a fully loaded hill climb will be slow.

The short 2,820 mm wheelbase gives a 5,700 mm turning radius, the tightest in the Partner 6 Tyre range. In a crowded market lane or tight yard, that is the second reason to choose this variant.

Ashok Leyland Partner 6 Tyre Mileage Running Cost

Ashok Leyland claims 8.5 kmpl, split into 7 to 8 kmpl in the city and 8 to 9 kmpl on the highway. Ignore the 8 to 10 kmpl figures quoted elsewhere. Nothing in the official data supports 10.

A 90-litre tank therefore gives you around 750 km on one fill. On fixed intercity routes, there is a refuel every second day.

Ashok Leyland warrants the Partner 6 Tyre for three years or three lakh kilometres. ZD30 spares move quickly because the engine is common to every variant in the range.

Budget separately for tyres. The 7.50x16, 16PR tyres are tube type. A puncture on a highway shoulder takes longer to fix than it would on a tubeless setup, and on a loaded 7.5-tonne truck that is real money.

Partner 6 Tyre 2820/HSD/11 ft Cabin Features

You get power steering, a tiltable steering column, an adjustable driver seat, a driver information display, seat belts and a tiltable cabin for engine access. Seating is D+2.

You do not get ABS, cruise control, hill hold, telematics or an arm rest. Air conditioning is not listed on this variant, although Ashok Leyland's literature for the Partner 6 Tyre range mentions an HVAC unit. Ask the dealer to show you what is actually fitted to the truck you are buying. On long shifts, this is the feature most likely to decide how long a driver stays with you.

Ride quality and cabin noise both worsen when the truck runs empty. Leaf-sprung commercial vehicles usually do.

Ashok Leyland Partner 6 Tyre 11 Feet On Road Price in 2026

The Ashok Leyland Partner 6 Tyre 11 feet price starts at approximately ₹13.85 lakh ex-showroom. Add road tax, registration, commercial vehicle insurance, permit and fitness charges, and you should budget ₹80,000 to ₹1.6 lakh on top. That puts the estimated on-road price at roughly ₹14.7 lakh to ₹15.4 lakh, with Delhi and Haryana near the bottom of that band and Maharashtra and Kerala near the top. Treat it as an estimate and get a written quote.

On finance, a ten percent down payment of about ₹1.39 lakh at 10.5 percent over five years works out to nearly ₹26,800 a month.

Buy this truck if you haul dense freight on short and medium routes: building material, agricultural produce, packaged food, machinery, distribution loads that fill by weight. You get all 4,579 kg to work with, in a truck nearly two metres shorter than the 17-foot Partner.

Buy the 17-foot instead if you move parcels, e-commerce or FMCG cartons. And if cabin equipment matters more to you than capacity, the Eicher Pro 2055K gives up 1,953 kg of payload for a better-equipped cab.