Free garbage truck SVG files

Three kinds of truck

Children who love garbage trucks know there is more than one kind, so the set has the three common ones. The rear loader has a rounded hopper at the back where the crew throw the bags. The front loader carries two arms that reach forward, pick up a dumpster by its side pockets and swing it over the cab to empty it into the roof. The side loader has a single arm that grips a wheeled bin and tips it, with nobody leaving the cab.

All three share the same cab and chassis and are about 100 mm long by 48 to 70 mm tall. The wheels are 13 mm across with a 5 mm hub hole, the ribs on the body are cuts about 1.7 mm wide and the exhaust stack is 2.6 mm wide. They cut well in vinyl from about 110 mm long. For a small decal use the silhouette or the simple truck.

Shirts, names and bin day

The truck with a blank body is the one for a birthday shirt: the open frame is about 58 mm long and 30 mm tall inside at 100 mm, room for a first name. The dumpster, the garbage can and the wheeled bins are there to build a street with, each on its own strip of road, and they sit at the right height next to the trucks if you keep them all at the same scale in your cutting software.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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