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2. Roll-off (dumpster) - Wikipedia

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   Roll-off container sizes are determined by the amount of debris they can hold, measured in cubic yards. [2] Container sizes commonly found in the United States include 10, 15, 20, 30, and 40 cubic yards, equivalent to approximately 7.65 m³, 11.47 m³, 15.29 m³, 22.94 m³, and 30.58 m³.

3. Garbage truck - Wikipedia

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   Split body trucks can be in either rear loading or side loading types. In rear loaders, the two compartments are easily visible. In automatic side loaders, the gate-like separator at the top of the truck is used to control whether the materials will be dropped into the left or the right compartment but the loading process is the same for both ...

4. Dump truck - Wikipedia

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   The truck goes to the dumpsite, after it has been dumped the empty container is taken and placed to be loaded or stored. The hoist is raised and the container slides down the subframe so the rear is on the ground. The container has rollers on the rear and can be moved forward or back until the front of it is lowered onto the ground.

5. Mack LR - Wikipedia

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   Front-loaders have a boom or "arms" that goes from the body over and then down in front of, the cab. Two forks pick up the container. The container is then lifted up and over the cab to be dumped into a hopper on the top of the body. For curbside pick-up a container is held in a low position and material is loaded into it.

6. Mack Granite - Wikipedia

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   Roll-off container trucks have a container that is raised in the front and slides off the back of the truck onto the ground. When a loaded box is carried it can be unloaded like a dump truck. They commonly haul construction debris but refuse containers are also left at commercial sites. Rear-loading compactor bodies have a large hopper on the ...

7. Dumpster - Wikipedia

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   The word "dumpster", first used commercially in 1936, [5] came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardized containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in 1935. [6] [7] The containers were called Dumpsters, a blending of the company's name with the word dump. The Dempster ...