- See also: Dumper truck
A typical 8x4 Tipper used on Streetworks and Utility contracts with the ability to load itself or unload small quantities at multiple job sites
Tipper Truck is the term used in the UK for trucks with a tipping body (dumpbody) generally for the on highway type with the off road type call dumper trucks
History
The earlies version had a manually tipped (balanced) body with latter versions having a screw tipping mechanism till hydraulics became common after WWII. Once hydraulics became popular the size of body grew as weight limits increased.
Body styles
A number of body types have evolved for different applications especially to optimise capacity and survive the rough usage many are subjected to. Materials differ with Wood being the original material for early bodies but by the 1960s steel and aluminium were taking over and by the 1990s aluminium is the material used in the vast majority of bodies often without a steel subframe that was originally used.
Tipping gear
A number of different types of gear is used.
- Edbro
- Harsh
Tipper Body manufacturers
- Boalloy
- Cranes Trailers
- Dennison
- Fruehauf
- Massey Truck Engineering (MTE)
- Thompsons