trucks and diggers let''s look

This big, white truck is taking food to the stores in the town.. Busy town trucksmail truck More town trucks garbage truck street sweeper tow truck... Car transporter transportersMore ca

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This big, white truck is

taking food to the stores

in the town

Busy town trucks

Busy town trucks

mail truck

More town trucks

garbage truck street sweeper

tow truck

Long tankers carry fuel

to gas stations The gas

flows out of the tanker

through a long, thick pipe

Car transporter

A car transporter has a

special double-decker trailer How many cars is this

transporter carrying?

Car transporter transportersMore

car ferry

space shuttle transporter

truck and trailer digger transporter

With lights flashing andsirens wailing, fire trucksrush fire-fighters to the scene of a fire.

Emergency

More fire trucksEmergency

chief’s fire truck

airport fire truck

fire truck for rough ground ladder truck

Road trains are the longest trucks in the world They travel a long way on desert roads, but are too big

for city streets

Road train

Road train I spy

When roads are blocked

by lots of snow, this truck comes to the rescue!

A snow plow has a large curved blade at the front

to push snow off the road

Snow plow

I spy

lights

Snow plow

Logging truck

Powerful logging trucks

carry huge tree trunks

They take the heavy logs from forests to sawmills This truck has a long arm

to load and unload the logs

I spy

Logging truck

Find the load

Different trucks carry

different loads This white truck is carrying vegetables The men are emptying the vegetables into the trailer

Find the load

Can you match each truck to its load?

garbage truck

logging truck garbage

milk truck

milk car transporter

The wheels of this big truck are almost as tall as

a person!

Monster truck

Monster truck

giant dump truck racing truck

motor home water truck

More amazing trucks

A digger has a metal bucket for scooping up earth and

rubble Some diggers are

small and others are huge!

Can you see the huge wheels

An excavator digs holes

on a building site It has

a large bucket on the end

of its long arm Caterpillar tracks help this excavator drive over bumpy ground

Building sites are full of

rubble A bulldozer has

a strong, steel blade to

push away heavy rubble The ground is then cleared, ready for building

Bulldozer

I spy

The most useful machine for a farmer is a tractor

It can pull a plow across

a field or tow a trailer full of crops

Tractor

More farm machineryTractor

all-terrain vehicle

farm buggy combine harvester

tractor and plow

This machine has widewheels The wheels are heavy enough toflatten the surface

of a new road

Road roller

More road buildersRoad roller

scraper grader

paver concrete mixer

Colorful trucks

Trucks and diggers can

be many different colors

This tow truck is yellow

with colorful stripes!

Colorful trucks

Can you name the colors

of these trucks?

airport fire truck

ladder fire truck dump truck

recycling truck

Truck shapes

Look back through the book and see if you can find the trucks and diggers that

match the black shapes

on the opposite page

Try to match the transporter and road roller pictures first!

LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE, AND DELHI

Written by Hannah Wilson

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