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1934 – The first dump truck
https://www.mining-technology.com/features/mining-vehicles-ride-time/

In 1934, Euclid designed and built the Model 1Z truck, which is generally considered to be the first off-highway rear dump truck for mining. The heavy-duty vehicle was fitted with a 100HP Waukesha gasoline engine and was just 6.4m long.

Small by modern standards, the Model 1Z was the first step on the path to the monster dump trucks we see in the mining industry today. Euclid, now part of Terex Trucks, created the truck as a solution to haulage in the increasingly industrialised mining process in the US.

2008 – Automating mining

Automation is one of the biggest themes of the 21st Century so far, and within the mining industry this is most notable in the automation of vehicles. Capable of running for 24 hours a day without breaks, this new generation is efficient, economic and increasingly commonplace.

2013

The world’s biggest dump truck, the Belaz 75710, weighs in at an incredible 496t. It was developed by Belaz, a mining manufacturing company from Belarus, in 2013, and sales began in 2014.

BelAZ-75710: the world’s largest dump truck
https://hybridtechcar.com/2013/11/01/belaz-75710-worlds-largest-dump-truck/

The company “BelAZ” has created the world’s largest dump truck BelAZ-75710 carrying capacity of 450 tons, the equivalent of three hundred Ford Focus, 37 double-decker bus and a half or two blue whales. By the way, Airbus A380 – the largest passenger plane in the world – weighs considerably less, only 277 tons.....................

Powerplant record BelAZ-75710 includes two diesel engines with total capacity of 8500 hp, designed to power the electric motors that drive the giant wheels of the truck.