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Dump Truck

A dump truck is truck with a dump bed or dump body attached on a truck chassis. This type of trucks is used to move or to transport aggregate material such as sand, earth, rocks, gravel, dirt and etc. A dump truck is essential for transport hot asphalt in road building and surface mining applications.

The truck has usually one hydraulic ram is mounted in the underbody and driven from a gear box power take-off (PTO). This ram raise the dump box to unload a material. The truck's dump bed capacity is measured in cubic yards, and describes how much material filled level with the top of the sideboards (water level). By itself a bed or body is made from steel or has metal frame and wood covering.

There are on-road dump trucks and off-road dump trucks. On-road trucks can cover a long distance as they built for standard roads and travels. Ford, Freightliner, GMC, International (Inter), Kenworth, Mack, Peterbilt builds good and popular on-road dump trucks. Off-road dump trucks are common specialized trucks for off-road mining operations. Among off-road dump truck makes we can note Aveling Barford, Case, Caterpillar (Cat), Jcb, Terex.