ABOUT US

t is believed that the dump truck was originally designed on the farms of Western Europe in the late 19th century. Thornycroft developed a steam dust cart with damper mechanism in 1896. The first engine dump trucks in the United States, around 1910, among others, Fruehauf Trailer Corporation, Galion Buggy Co. and small equipment companies such as Lauth-Juergens. The hydraulic discharge bearings are soon replaced by Wood Hoist Co. Such companies developed during World War I due to the large demand for wartime. August Fruehauf received military contracts for his semi-trailer, invented in 1914, and later created the common vehicle, a semi-truck for use in World War I. After the war, Fruehauf introduced hydraulics on trailers. In the early 1920s they offered hydraulic lift doors, hydraulic cranes and dump trailers for sales. Fruehauf has become the leading supplier of dump trailers and has been recognized as the best by the famous "tub casting" heavy-duty trucks, road and mining construction companies. Galion Buggy Co. Companies like the company continued to grow after the war, producing a series of express bodies and some smaller garbage bodies that could be easily installed on the Model T chassis, stock or convertible (heavy duty suspension and drivetrain) before 1920. and Wood Mfg. Co. built all the damper bodies offered by Ford in the 1930s on heavy-duty AA and BB chassis. [6] [7] Galion (now Galion Godwin Truck Body Co.) is the oldest known truck body manufacturer that is still in operation today. The first known Canadian dump truck was developed in Saint T., New Brunswick, when Robert T. Mawhinney added a trash bin to a truck in 1920. The lifting device was a winch attached to a cable fed from the pulley (pulley) mounted on it. a mast behind the cabin. The cable was attached to the lower front end of the wooden trash bin fastened with a pivot to the back of the truck frame. The operator turned a crank to lift and lower the box.