![]() ![]() Did any of you ever think you’d see a 34-year-old garbage truck on Barn Finds? Most of us grew up with these rear-loading garbage trucks running around the neighborhood, usually filled manually by a guy who would jump out of the passenger door and empty your metal garbage cans in the back, put the cans back in your driveway, and then they’d move on to the next house. ![]() Here’s what the business end looks like, still filled with other people’s stuff and looking almost like the garbage trucks of our youth. With rear drive and a mid-mounted engine, weight distribution was around 50/50 between the axles for a very balanced truck. They typically had an Allison automatic gearbox and a CCC tandem axle with a short driveshaft. There’s no way of knowing what mid-mounted drivetrain is in this truck, although the seller lists it as a six-cylinder diesel. The seller gives almost no information on this truck other than that it’s in “good condition” and is strong and reliable. There were also dual controls or exterior controls, and some trucks offered dual-steer cabs so a crew of two could go all day without being overworked. Given the low-entry cab height, the packer’s hydraulic cylinder was able to be located above the cab, which was another innovation. In the same era, the company designed its own semi-circular compaction body, or packer body, making them even more desirable for customers and municipalities. ![]() With a cab floor height of only 18 inches, it was about half of what other collection trucks offered for a floor height. Known as the Low Entry Centurian, they lasted until just after the turn of the 21st century. ![]() Most of us have rear-loading or side-loading trucks for our weekly garbage collection company visits – ours are side-loading both for garbage and recycling.Īs a two-seater low-entry cab, the CCC Centurian cab for the residential collection market was introduced in 1979. We’ve all seen front-loading garbage trucks pull up to a dumpster and have watched as the hydraulic lift arms latch onto the dumpster, lift it up and over the cab, and dump it into the rear of the truck. They weren’t the first, but they nailed the design and reliability to become the industry leaders. CCC basically started the garbage collection industry on its current path with its integrated (body, cab, and frame as one unit) front loader. This rig is known as a CCC Centurian integrated rear loader, but the company also made side and front-loader trucks starting in the early-1980s. The Century Line followed in the 1960s for the cement mixer market and then came the Centurian Line.ĬCC first offered two-seater, low-entry, forward-control Centurian cabs in 1974, mainly for the garbage industry, but they also made chassis and cabs for construction, logging, mining, and other industries. In 1953, they offered the first trucks of their own design. Their truck cabs were typically cab-beside-engine (CBE) in order to carry the crane boom next to the cab for a lower profile. CCC started out making crane-carrying trucks for the oil industry from war surplus vehicles and they were known early on as crane-carrying chassis manufacturers, hence their name. Here is the original listing, in case this stinker goes away in the next few days.Ĭrane Carrier Company from New Philadelphia, Ohio, was founded in 1946 and is now Battle Motors, a company known for making work trucks, including electric trucks. This 1989 Crane Carrier Company (CCC) Garbage Truck is posted here on craigslist in Oakland, California and the seller is asking $8,800. But, a garbage truck? I guess, a refuse truck would be a friendlier term these days. We’ve covered almost every vehicle type here over the last decade or so, including industrial trucks. Well, here’s something you don’t see every day on Barn Finds, or ever – until now. ![]()
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