Trucks built with a body or equipment for one job, such as dumping, carrying liquid, putting out fires, collecting waste, mixing concrete or towing. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the vehicle a dump truck, tank truck, fire engine, garbage truck, concrete mixer or tow truck. It excludes general freight trucks and pickups. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Dump Truck
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A dump truck, known also as a dumping truck, dump lorry or dumper lorry or a dumper for short, is used for transporting materials (such as dirt, gravel, or demolition waste) for construction as well as coal.
Wikipedia: Tank Truck
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A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads.
Wikipedia: Fire Engine
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A fire engine (or fire truck, also spelled firetruck) is a vehicle, usually a specially designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus.
Wikipedia: Garbage truck
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A garbage truck is a truck specially designed to collect municipal solid waste and transport it to a solid waste treatment facility, such as a landfill, recycling center or transfer station.
Concrete mixer, Wikipedia
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A concrete mixer (also cement mixer) is a device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate (e.g.
Tow truck, Wikipedia
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A tow truck (also called a wrecker, a breakdown truck, recovery vehicle or a breakdown lorry) is a truck used to move disabled, improperly parked, impounded, or otherwise indisposed motor vehicles.
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