Concrete Mixers: America's Hardest Working Trucks

About this book

We see Concrete Mixer trucks around us everyday building America’s bridges, skyscrapers, roads, and important structures. These hard working vehicles are a complicated truck with powerful engines, heavy duty frames, rotating mixer drums and even water tanks. This important building material must be transported to construction sites all over the country to create the modern society we live in today. Presented with gorgeous photography by concrete mixer truck professional WesT Austin, this informative photo-journal contains inside the industry knowledge from leading sources in the production of ready-mix concrete. Topics include Pumper Trucks, Types of Concrete, Aggregate Facts, Tires, Mixing Technology and even the principle of Archimedes Screw.