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A standard dump truck is a truck chassis with a dump body mounted to the frame. The bed is raised by a vertical hydraulic ram mounted under the front of the body (known as a front post hoist configuration), or a horizontal hydraulic ram and lever arrangement between the frame rails (known as an underbody hoist configuration), and the back of ...
The first compactor could double a truck's capacity. This was made possible by use of a hydraulic press which periodically compacted the contents of the truck. Soviet garbage truck GAZ-53M (photo taken in 1983) RS-3 Lightning Rear Steer truck. In 1955 the Dempster Dumpmaster, the first front loader, was introduced. They did not become common ...
June McCarroll (June 30, 1867 – March 30, 1954) is credited by the California Department of Transportation with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line to separate lanes of highway traffic, although this claim is disputed by the Federal Highway Administration [1] and the Michigan Department of Transportation [2] as two Michigan men painted centerlines before her. [3]
In 1950, the company manufactured a unique truck, the TC CargoLiner – touted as "A Trailer Without A Tractor". [15] In 1953 the Twin Coach Company was awarded a patent for what would become the standard in straight truck design. The inventor was Louis J Fageol. [16] The company produced 1 1/2 ton, 2 1/2 ton, 3 1/2-4 ton, and 5-6 ton trucks.
The CV Series are medium-duty trucks introduced in 2018, and developed in a joint venture with General Motors, which markets the vehicle as the Silverado 4500HD, 5500HD, and 6500HD. It is an entirely new truck with its own cab and styling. It is marketed as tow, dump, service and utility trucks. [77] [78] [79]
One of the first user-submitted kudos for a truck goes to El Tonayense in California, which ranks No. 1 in Zagat’s 2011 “Best Bang for Your Buck” category. Maskot/Getty 2019: No Longer a ...
Euclid truck in use at Chuquicamata copper mine in 1984 Euclid truck at a quarry in Poland (2013) The Euclid Trucks was a manufacturer which specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, particularly dump trucks, loaders and wheel tractor-scrapers. It operated in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s, when it was purchased by General ...
It was estimated that in 1987 there were between 35,000–55,000 Mack trucks operating in Iran. [13] Mack Canada made a shipment of 20 non-military RD 800 series trucks rigged for oil field operations to the National Iranian Drilling Co. of Tehran in 1987; this was the first shipment to Iran since 1979. [13]