10 Facts About Euclid Trucks

Euclid Trucks produced crawler wagons on tracks known as Euclid Trucks Tu-Way haulers.

In 1953 the Euclid Trucks Corporation was purchased by General Motors, in what the leaders of both companies saw as an advantageous deal, with complementary product lines.

Euclid Trucks produced the industry's first 50-ton, 3 axle dump truck, with twin Cummins power, in 1951.

The international Euclid Trucks dealerships were still owned by GM, thus forcing White to form all-new international dealerships.

Euclid Trucks Company lost its prominence after the sale to White, and never achieved the standing that it enjoyed before the GM acquisition.

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Hitachi obtained Euclid to fill the gap which existed in their ability to offer a complete mining package, as mining excavators and dump trucks are usually needed in combination.

The Euclid Trucks name was phased out by the end of 2004, ending 80 years of the Euclid Trucks name on construction machinery.

Euclid Trucks had pioneered the use of twin engines in a bottom dumper, in November 1948.

Euclid trucks were usually loaded by cable-operated crawler shovels and draglines of other manufacturers, but Euclid developed mobile belt loaders to load its bottom dump trucks.

Euclid Trucks was the first major manufacturer to commercialize the now ubiquitous articulated rubber tired loader, the current mainstay of many heavy equipment manufacturers, particularly Caterpillar.