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GoKids reviews the Bruder ROADMAX Toy Dump Truck. Watch more of our Bruder ROADMAX videos: Bruder ROADMAX Garbage Truck: http://youtu.be/NElGx7Vf20E Bruder ROADMAX Digger: http://youtu.be/7DN8Kdk_i48 And check out our Bruder ROADMAX playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLavoksFWzunIRXfNwyNWBCR7ARRahl9k9 http://www.gokidsvideo.com http://www.twitter.com/gokidsvideo Here is what Bruder say about the toy: The dump truck from our ROADMAX series is a sturdy toy with a design suitable for small children and with many realistic functions for playing fun. The transparent driver's cab can be opened from above. The trough of the dump truck can also be tilted on two sides and soft tyres complete the picture. Here is what Wikipedia says: A dump truck is a truck used for transporting loose material (such as sand, gravel, or dirt) for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with an open-box bed, which is hinged at the rear and equipped with hydraulic pistons to lift the front, allowing the material in the bed to be deposited ("dumped") on the ground behind the truck at the site of delivery. The dump truck is thought to have been first conceived in the farms of late 19th century western Europe. Thornycroft developed a steam dust-cart in 1896 with a tipper mechanism. The first motorized dump trucks in the United States were developed by small equipment companies such as Galion Buggy Co. and Lauth-Juergens among many others around 1910. Such companies flourished during World War I due to massive wartime demand. Companies like Galion Buggy Co. continued to grow after the war by manufacturing a number of express bodies and some smaller dump bodies that could be easily installed on either stock or converted (heavy-duty suspension and drivetrain) Model T chassis prior to 1920. Galion and Wood Mfg. Co. built all of the dump bodies offered by Ford on their heavy-duty AA and BB chassis during the 1930s. Galion (now Galion Godwin Truck Body Co.) is the oldest known truck body manufacturer still in operation today. The first known Canadian dump truck was developed in Saint John, New Brunswick when Robert T. Mawhinney attached a dump box to a flat bed truck in 1920. The lifting device was a winch attached to a cable that fed over sheave (pulley) mounted on a mast behind the cab. The cable was connected to the lower front end of the wooden dump box which was attached by a pivot at the back of the truck frame. The operator turned a crank to raise and lower the box. The first dump bed apparatus on a wheeled vehicle patented in Canada A standard dump truck is a truck chassis with a dump body mounted to the frame. The bed is raised by a vertical hydraulic ram mounted under the front of the body, or a horizontal hydraulic ram and lever arrangement between the frame rails, and the back of the bed is hinged at the back of the truck. The tailgate can be configured to swing up on top hinges (and sometimes also to fold down on lower hinges) or it can be configured in the "High Lift Tailgate" format wherein pneumatic rams lift the gate open and up above the dump body. In the United States, a standard dump truck has one front steering axle, and one or two rear axles which typically have dual wheels on each side. Tandem rear axles are virtually always powered in the U.S., far less often in Europe. Most unpowered rear axles can be raised off the pavement, to minimize wear and tear when the truck is empty or lightly loaded, and lowered to become load-bearing when the truck needs the extra support. These are referred to as lift axles or drop axles. Lift axles can be steerable or non-steerable; steerable lift axles are always configured with single wheels on each side, instead of dual wheels. Lift axles positioned in front of the powered axles are called pushers; lift axles positioned behind the powered axles are called tags. Common configurations for a standard dump truck include the four wheeler. (4x2) which has one powered rear axle, the six wheeler (6x2 or 6x4) with one or two powered rear axles, the tri-axle with one lift axle and two powered axles, and the quad with two lift axles and two powered axles. The largest of the standard European dump trucks is commonly called a "centipede" and has seven axles. The rear two axles are powered, the front axle is the steering axle, and the remaining four are lift axles. The intermediate axles are present to support the weigh over the length of the chassis and sometimes to provide additional braking power. In the European Union, the dump truck configurations are 2, 3 and 4 axles. The 4-axle eight wheeler has two axles at the front and two at the rear and is limited to 32 metric tons (35 short tons; 31 long tons) gross weight in most EU countries. In the U.S. the most common large dump trucks, the "semi-dumps", have a 6x4 semi tractor and a two axle trailer.