CONSTRUCTION SITE

The beloved Construction Site team gives a neighborhood a restorative facelift.

This time Bulldozer, Dump Truck, and company are confronted with a job that’s not quite in their wheelhouse. Instead of demolishing and building afresh, they’re going to renovate a suburban neighborhood that’s fallen into disrepair. What to do with the “heaps of rubbish” and “junk piles everywhere”? The usual crew calls for help, and soon an array of specialists parade in: Roll Off Truck, Container Delivery Truck, Flatbed, Skid Steer, Side Loaders, Rear Loaders, Front Loaders, and Garbage Trucks. Their arrival is prefaced by their aroma (they are the Garbage Crew, after all), but still they’re “a fleet of heroes!” Our old Construction Site friends help sort the mounds of accumulated trash for recycling or composting, and the Garbage Crew hauls it away. Cooperation is the instinctive rule; everyone does their part. While the removal is underway, construction begins: The Construction Crew installs new windows and doors, plants trees, and paves streets. Some trucks are given male or female pronouns, but they don’t have external gender signifiers. The verse is still propulsive, with a few gear shifts but no stalling, and detailed illustrations by series regular Ford have an old-fashioned charm. One fascinating cross-section of a garbage truck lets readers glimpse its internal workings. Still going strong more than a decade after they made their debut, these vehicles never run out of oomph.

This series keeps rolling along, delivering just what fans want.