TRUCK BODIES, AND TRUCKS INCORPORATING THE SAME

摘要

In order to avoid the requirement tiltably to raise a truck body for discharge of material therefrom where the truck body is a dump truck body, a sander or spreader truck body, or a dual purpose truck body which can serve alternatively as a dump truck body or as a sander or spreader truck body there is provided in a truck body an upstanding discharge plate which extends between side walls of the truck body and is movable by a power operated drive which comprises forward and rearward block and tackle systems in a fore and aft direction between the front wall and the rear wall of the truck body. Material may thus be discharge from the truck body by the discharge plate at the rear of the truck body when it is desired that the truck body operate as a dump truck body and at the front of the truck body when it is desired that the truck body operate as a sander or spreader truck body.