PAY DIRT Magazine

Caterpillar produces its 50,000th off-highway truck

Caterpillar recently produced its 50,000th rigid-frame off-highway truck — a milestone achieved at the Decatur, Ill., plant where such trucks have been produced since 1963. No. 50,000 is a 777F, a versatile 100-ton-capacity (91-tonne-capacity) truck that sees application in heavy construction, quarry and aggregates and mining. “Today, our large mining trucks are moving more than [...]