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I worked at a strip mine in Colorado and they had trucks like these. The trucks they used didn't seem much smaller than these. You could park three pickups in the back (six if you could stack them) and they had the same ladders up the front and huge tires. Still, while the trucks are amazing, the dragline at the mine was even more impressive. It's bucket would drag across the ground and pick up the overburden (the dirt and rock above the coal) and dump it into these trucks, filling them up with one load.

The scale at a mine is just unbeleivable. When you look across the site, it looks like there are trucks and stuff and then a bunch of toy trucks and tiny people. It's hard to beleive the big trucks are as big as they are until you stand next to one.