side-loader

Sideways-grabbing garbage vehicle

A side-loader is a vehicle or machine that loads and unloads from the side rather than the front, back, or top.

The term most commonly refers to garbage trucks that lift bins from the curb using a mechanical arm on the driver's side, allowing one-person operation: The side-loader picked up the recycling bins along the route.

Side-loaders also include forklifts designed for narrow aisles and shipping containers that open laterally.

forklift

warehouse

Bulk goods storage building

reach · telescopic · counterbalance · operator · dock · racking · aisles · hydraulic · mast · tines

garbage-truck

waste

Unwanted discarded material

curbside · sanitation · compactor · municipal · residential · route · pickup · disposal · automated · hopper

cargo

container

Thing for storing items

crane · port · terminal · vessel · rail · transport · gantry · chassis · drayage · stevedore

lateral

flanking

At the sides of

perpendicular

Opposites
loading mechanism position

side-loaderfront-end loader

Vehicle with forward-mounted scoop

Family

side, loader, load, sides, sided, siding, sidelong, sideways, sidebar

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G