The dump truck is believed to have been first conceived in the farms of late 19th century western Europe. Thornycroft developed a steam dust-cart in 1896 with a tipper mechanism.The first motorized dump trucks in the United States were established by little equipment companies such as The Fruehauf Trailer Corporation, Galion Buggy Co. and Lauth-Juergens amongst lots of others around 1910. Hydraulic dump beds were introduced by Wood Hoist Co. shortly after. Such business grew during World War I due to massive wartime need. August Fruehauf had actually obtained military agreements for his semi-trailer, developed in 1914 and later created the partner lorry, the semi-truck for usage in World War I. After the war, Fruehauf introduced hydraulics in his trailers. They used hydraulic lift gates, hydraulic winches and a dump trailer for sales in the early 1920s. Fruehauf ended up being the premier provider of dump trailers and their famous "bathtub dump" was thought about to be the finest by heavy haulers, road and mining building and construction firms.Companies like Galion Buggy Co. continued to grow after the war by producing a number of express bodies and some smaller sized dump bodies that could be quickly installed on either stock or transformed (heavy-duty suspension and drivetrain) Design T chassis prior to 1920. Galion and Wood Mfg. Co. developed all of the dump bodies offered by Ford on their sturdy AA and BB chassis during the 1930s. Galion (now Galion Godwin Truck Body Co.) is the earliest known truck body maker still in operation today.
The first recognized Canadian dump truck was developed in Saint John, New Brunswick, Dump Trucks & Trailers when Robert T. Mawhinney connected a dump box to a flatbed truck in 1920. The lifting device was a winch connected to a cable television that fed over sheave (pulley-block) installed on a mast behind the cab. The cable television was connected to the lower front end of the wood dump box which was connected by a pivot at the back of the truck frame. The operator turned a crank to raise and reduce package.
TypesToday, virtually all dump trucks run by hydraulics and they come in a variety of setups each designed to accomplish a particular task in the building product supply chain.
Standard dump truck European Union heavy trucks frequently have 2 guiding axles. Dump truck setups are two, 3 and 4 axles. The four-axle eight wheeler has two guiding axles at the front and 2 powered axles at the rear and is limited to 32 metric lots (35 brief tons; 31 long lots) gross weight in the majority of EU countries. The largest of the basic European dump trucks is frequently called a "centipede" and has seven axles. The front axle is the steering axle, the rear two axles are powered, and the staying 4 are lift axles.