dump truck
noun
: an automotive truck for the transportation of bulk material that has a body which tilts to dump its contents
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The platform is designed to work in harmony with human operators, loading articulating dump trucks and performing repetitive excavation tasks with high precision.
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
When the Silverado slowed to a stop, the dump truck struck the right rear passenger side of the Silverado, causing the vehicle to veer into the oncoming lane, where it was involved in a second collision with a 2026 Western Star dump truck traveling southbound.
—Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2025
In January 2022, several cynomolgus macaque monkeys escaped when a truck towing a trailer of about 100 of the animals collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
Freeze, 16, died of his injuries after crashing into a dump truck on his way to swim practice along Pioneer Road about a mile west of Interstate 43 on the border of Mequon and Cedarburg.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
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Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
When the Silverado slowed to a stop, the dump truck struck the right rear passenger side of the Silverado, causing the vehicle to veer into the oncoming lane, where it was involved in a second collision with a 2026 Western Star dump truck traveling southbound.
—Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Nov. 2025
In January 2022, several cynomolgus macaque monkeys escaped when a truck towing a trailer of about 100 of the animals collided with a dump truck on a Pennsylvania highway, authorities said.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
Freeze, 16, died of his injuries after crashing into a dump truck on his way to swim practice along Pioneer Road about a mile west of Interstate 43 on the border of Mequon and Cedarburg.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
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“Dump truck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dump%20truck. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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