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THE FAMILY EUCLID

Al Greymont well remembers driving the 1955 Euclid RD10 that joined his family’s business in the 1970s. “I drove it on the site jobs in the summertime,” he explained. “I’ve been driving since I was 14 years old. My father had an excavating business … and so there were times when I hauled one rock at a time in this, because it took up the whole body. It was great — you were a kid with no license and you got to drive.”

Forgetting the truck would be difficult, given that he owns it today and it’s barely changed from the time when he began driving it. In fact, the RD10 really is just about the same.

“It’s the

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