This vehicle is called Leach's Garbage Getter, a state-of-the-art sanitation truck built between 1932 and 1949. You can see many garbage truck designs from different eras and different parts of the world in a roundup...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/08/vintage-garbage-trucks/
Vintage Garbage Trucks
2m40...
The blog 2M40 is about one underpass in Paris that has a clearance of only two meters and forty centimeters. Many truck drivers either do not read, do not understand, or do not believe the clearance warning. Several time...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/16/2m40/
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