tipper truck

British

noun

Also called: tip truck. a truck or lorry the rear platform of which can be raised at the front end to enable the load to be discharged by gravity

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The fines are for a tipper truck, which has an MOT and has been taxed, but is not Ulez-compliant.

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There were 42,000 larger illegal tips - so big that waste criminals would have needed a tipper truck or larger.

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A motorway is closed after a tipper truck collided with an overhead gantry.

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A 38-year-old man has also been charged with rioting, petrol bomb offences and the arson and hijacking of a tipper truck.

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A tipper truck driver has admitted killing a student in a head-on crash after driving along a dual carriageway in the wrong direction.

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