Dumpers

A dumper truck is used for transporting loose material in construction and landscaping applications. A typical dump truck is fitted with a hydraulically operated open-box at the rear, the front of which can be lifted up to allow the contents to be deposited on the ground behind the truck at the site of delivery. The dumper truck is a useful and sought after piece of equipment, and at Constructiontradex you can refine your search, not only by brand or model, but by specific parameters such as engine size and fuel capacity.

Dumpers for sale in UK

The dumper truck is necessary when the bulk of material is too much for a smaller dumper. Dumper trucks for sale in the UK comes in two main formats; the rigid dumper truck, and the articulated dumper truck, which is more suitable for rough terrain and heavy payloads. Mini dumpers are ideal for smaller jobs and moving loads of up to 1.5 tonnes, and can be highly cost effective way of improving productivity. Constructiontradex stocks the leading names in dumper trucks for sale in the UK, including Volvo, Komatsu and Perlini.

Used Dumpers

Used Dumpers usually operate by way of the skip moving in a hydraulically powered tipping motion, but also available are skips that can lift and dump, and swivel skips, which can be rotated to tip at a 90 degree angle, which is particularly useful in congested urban sites, for example a road works. Because dumpers have been identified as the most common cause of accident on construction sites, many used dumpers are now equipped with ROPS, or roll-over protection, and FOPS, or falling object protection, in order to safeguard the operator and increase productivity.