Mining Trucks

In 1963 the company produced its first off-highway construction and mining truck. Later in the 1980s Caterpillar made a strategic decision to pursue leadership of the worldwide mining sector, and introduced its first mining production machine, the 785 truck, in 1984. The world’s largest off-highway mining truck — the Cat 797 — made its debut at the Caterpillar proving grounds in Arizona in 1998.

 

Caterpillar serves the worldwide mining community through its Caterpillar Global Mining organization, headquartered in Oak Creek, Wis. Global Mining is the single point of contact for global mineral producers and the primary link to the Caterpillar extended mining enterprise. We provide mine-specific product and service solutions that help our customers enhance safety, improve efficiency, increase productivity and reduce cost per ton.

Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.

 

The Cat equipment product line currently consists of more than 300 machines used in dozens of industries. In addition to tractors, trucks, graders, excavators, scrapers and other heavy machinery used in the construction, mining and forestry industries, Caterpillar also makes diesel and gas engines used in Cat machinery, electric power generation equipment, locomotives and other industrial equipment. With 50 production facilities in the United States and another 60 overseas, Caterpillar does about 44 percent of its business within the United States and 56 percent abroad. The company employs over 100,000 people; of those, about 4,000 are employed by the Caterpillar Global Mining organization.