Sweeper Trucks Dismantled Machines

About Sweeper Trucks 

At the beginning of the 20th century, the idea that someday sweeper trucks would clean the streets of our cities seemed bizarre. However, when John M. Murphy and Elgin Sweeper Company delivered the first motor-driven street sweeper to Boise, Idaho, in 1913, urban communities across the world got a chance for a fresh start. 

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2020 Freightliner Business Class M2 106 Sweeper Truck

It took almost a century to thoroughly modernize city cleaning as people often had to manually remove small waste from the streets until the 1990s. But now, medium- and heavy-duty trucks perform significantly better than their predecessors. Equipped with spray water systems and vacuums, they remove dust, leaf litter, salt, sand, glass, and even small metal pieces and construction waste.

Modern sweeper trucks are also environmentally friendly. While most vehicles help deter contamination of the water system with hazardous materials, regenerative air sweepers prevent sending dust and debris back into the atmosphere. Those sweeper trucks are considered the most advanced on the market as they’re able to recycle the same used air in a closed system instead of polluting the environment. Manufacturers of regenerative air sweeper vehicles include Isuzu, Freightliner, and International.

Sweeper Truck Applications

Cities and municipalities are not the only ones using sweeper trucks. Paving contractors use this vehicle for preliminary roadway cleaning before applying paving overlays and lifts, seal coating, and milling. Cleaning pavement beforehand helps with adhesion, thereby increasing the pavement’s longevity. More so, while some contractors rent out the equipment or hire cleaners, others purchase the machinery themselves and lease it to others in their spare time.

Tips For Buying A Sweeper Truck

Street sweepers are split into two categories: medium- and heavy-duty. Medium-duty trucks weigh between 14,001 and 26,000 pounds and include truck classes 4 through 6. Heavy-duty trucks’ gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) starts at 26,001 lbs and can go as high as 33,001 lbs and fall into commercial truck classes 7 and 8.

Consider the environment you will work in before choosing the class of your truck, as its cleaning width usually corresponds with the size of the vehicle. Medium-duty sweeper trucks are good for cleaning roads and suburban areas, whereas heavy-duty trucks are perfect for industrial areas and open spaces.

Other things to consider: 

• Ensure the truck’s engine is in an appropriate condition because moving the vehicle, pumping water, and spinning brushes requires massive power
• For quality cleaning, make sure all features—including the street sweeper’s brooms, sprayers, hoppers, and flaps—are fully functional
• The truck’s payload and liquid capacity will directly influence the amount of work you can do at a time, so determine how much waste you want to collect per ride

Find The Right Sweeper Truck 

Explore the selection of new and used sweeper trucks on TruckPaper.com. Heavy- and medium-duty options from manufacturers such as Freightliner, International, Isuzu, Sterling, and others are just one click away. Pick your sweeper truck today for a cleaner tomorrow.