Garbage truck

A front-loading garbage truck in San Jose, California

A side-loading garbage truck in Aardenburg, The Netherlands

A back-loading garbage truck in Boinville-le-Gaillard, France

Garbage truck also known as dustcart, rubbish truck, dustbin lorry, bin lorry is a truck made to collect waste and then take it to a waste site such as a landfill. Garbage trucks can collect waste from the front, side or back of the truck.

Garbage Truck Media

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  A Peterbilt 520 garbage truck in Los Angeles

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  A Scania front loader

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  Soviet garbage truck GAZ-53M (photo taken in 1983)

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  14.5 m3 rear load container serviced in Copenhagen

• Garbagemen loading garbage by hand in Japan, 2013

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  A Lōdal Evo T-28 manual side loader

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  A WhiteGMC WXLL/Heil Python automated side loader. Note the collection of two containers, as opposed to one.

• Automated side loader in operation on an Autocar truck chassis

• Garbage collection by an automatic side loader during autumn in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Garbage trucks are usually considered noisy and dirty due to the size and the fact that they carry garbage, also known as rubbish, waste, trash, junk.