[Vocabulary] Roll on truck"

[Jellybeans31]

Hi,
Can you explain to me what is the "Roll on truck" ? the context is as follows:
Z will purchase additional compactor trucks and chain loaders/roll on trucks as needed to support the solid waste operations.

 

[SoothingDave]

More context would be needed, but I imagine it is a truck that you can simply roll things (waste?) onto.

 

[Jellybeans31]

More context would be needed, but I imagine it is a truck that you can simply roll things (waste?) onto.

Do you mean that it is a truck that collects waste? more context wouldn't help since the term is mentioned once.

 

[SoothingDave]

My best guess is that it is a truck which you can roll things onto.

 

[Jellybeans31]

My best guess is that it is a truck which you can roll things onto.

is it something like the tipper? forgive my frequent inquiries

 

[SoothingDave]

I said what my best guess was. It is not a common term.

 

[curmudgeon]

There is a term 'roll on - roll off' often written as RORO. It is normally applied to freight containers, which can be rolled off the back of a lorry and onto a ship for onward transportation...so I would assume that in this instance it is being used to describe a type of vehicle which is capable of rolling off a container and rolling on another. Perhaps a full container being uplifted and replaced by an empty container, or vice versa.