For Sale: 1921 DeMartini Truck in Modesto, California

George DeMartini began building his own trucks in San Francisco in 1919, because he thought he could build it better than anything else on the market. DeMartini specialized in trucks for farm use or refuse collection trucks. Building complete vehicles which were popular among the Scavenger collectives in San Francisco for decades. Many of these, with their high sided dump bodies and stairs leading to the top, worked in the city well into the era of compaction bodies. Before George DeMartini invented the first tilting garbage truck, the city of San Francisco used horses and wagons for hauling garbage. DeMartini built trucks from 1919 to 1934, turning out about 300 trucks per year, this example is one of 7 known to exist today.