1998 Daihatsu Hijet Mini Dump Truck - Boeki USA#BUC13580

This 1998 Daihatsu Hijet Dump is a Japanese domestic-market vehicle we imported and are selling directly, finished in White. Drive on this Hijet Dump is four-wheel drive. 10 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

What a Hijet Dump is

The Hijet has been in continuous production since November 1960, which makes it the oldest surviving kei nameplate — and in 2021 it took a Good Design Long Life Design Award, a first for Daihatsu. Daihatsu is Toyota's small-vehicle specialist and the Hijet is the product it has spent longest refining — sixty-plus years of iteration on a single idea, and it shows in how resolved the details are. The Hijet was built to be maintained by its owner rather than by a dealer: the seats tip forward, the engine is right there, and the service points are deliberately obvious.

What is on file for this Hijet Dump

The odometer reads 40735 and the listing records a Japanese auction grade of 4/B. The source recorded no unit alongside that figure, so 40735 is reproduced exactly as stored rather than converted.

How this 1998 Hijet Dump is put together

The 1998 Hijet Dump came with a 5-speed gearbox, and that is what this one has. The point of four-wheel drive here is being able to finish the job in conditions that would strand a two-wheel-drive truck of the same weight.

Living with a Hijet Dump

Tipping beds like this are what turn a two-person unloading job into a one-person one. Built in 1998, this Hijet Dump is 28 years old and clears the 25-year threshold at which imported vehicles are exempt from US federal motor vehicle safety standards conformity. The asking price is $7,700.