Trashmaster

Vehicle

Trashmaster
A Trashmaster in GTA III. (Rear quarter view) A Trashmaster in GTA III.
Appearance(s)	GTA III GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas GTA Liberty City Stories GTA Vice City Stories GTA IV
Vehicle type	Public service
Body style	2-door garbage truck
Capacity	2 (driver and 1 passenger)
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The Trashmaster is a recurring garbage truck. It succeeds the Garbage Truck from Grand Theft Auto 2, the first garbage truck to be featured in the series.

Description

As with most other utility/industrial vehicles in the Grand Theft Auto series, the Trashmaster has no functional purpose, with the exception of GTA Liberty City Stories; it has a side mission entitled "Trash Dash", where the player must drive a Trashmaster around the city, picking up garbage in a Taxi mission style way.

It is one of the slowest and least maneuverable vehicles in the series, and in GTA III, it has the lowest point value when destroyed, 10; the Trashmaster in GTA San Andreas however is notably faster and emits a different engine noise compared to the other GTA III era games. Despite its shortfalls, the Trashmaster tends to be one of the heaviest and most durable trucks available in the game.

In GTA IV, the Trashmaster's trash crusher can also be operated by tapping the handbrake button. This comes into play during the mission "Taking in the Trash"; the men the player is working with will only throw targeted trash bags containing diamonds into the truck when the crusher is open. However, the player is not told the control for operating the crusher.

Design

Throughout the games, its appearance has remained mostly the same, with the exception of the front cab, which switches around from flat cab-over design to a standard cab in-between the games.

In GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories, the Trashmaster resembles a Mack MR. In GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, and GTA Vice City Stories it has a cab similar to the Yankee, but the grille is slightly altered, GTA San Andreas's version also has different headlights, added turning signals, bears Sanitary Andreas logos.

The GTA IV rendition is the most realistic yet, with LSD workers hanging on the back, as well as various other details. It closely resembles a DSNY (Department of Sanitation New York) Mack LE Refuse Collection Truck but the front is slightly altered.

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  GTA III
  (Rear quarter view).

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  GTA Vice City rendition, with a Yankee-based cab
  (Rear quarter view).

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  GTA San Andreas
  (Rear quarter view).

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  GTA Liberty City Stories
  (Rear quarter view).

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  GTA Vice City Stories
  (Rear quarter view).

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  GTA IV rendition, readopting the cab over design seen in GTA III and GTA Liberty City Stories.

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  GTA IV rendition, rear quarter view, depicting the additional garbage collectors holding on in the rear.

Trivia

• A GTA III style Trashmaster appears in Rockstar North's Manhunt 2.
• The GTA Liberty City Stories rendition of the truck is unusual in that its door will not be closed when the player exits the truck on a flat surface; the player must disembarked onto a surface more elevated than that where the truck is in order to close the door. This peculiarity is also seen on other vehicles with high driver compartments, such as the Dumper in GTA San Andreas.
• The Trashmaster plays the following radio stations by default when entered:
  • K-DST in GTA San Andreas.
  • Jazz Nation Radio 108.5 and Fusion FM in GTA IV.
• The Trashmaster is the name of a feature-length machinima by French director Mathieu Weschler created entirely using gameplay footage from GTA IV.
• The EA game Burnout CRASH! contains a controllable trash truck, named the Trashmaster.

Locations

The Trashmater is commonly found driving in the industrial sections of each city, while the Trashmaster in GTA IV only spawns in the early hours of the morning.

GTA III

• Occasionally spawns in Aspatria, Staunton Island.
• Rarely spawns in Portland and on the Callahan Bridge.

GTA Vice City

• Frequently spawns in Vice Port.
• Parked in the junk yard in Little Haiti.
• By inputting the following cheat codes:
  • PS2:
  • PC: rubbishcar
  • Xbox:

GTA San Andreas

• Rarely spawns in Ocean Docks.
• By inputting the following cheat codes:
  • PC: truegrime. This is also an easter egg, mocking True Crime, a GTA clone series.

GTA Liberty City Stories

• Parked in the Harwood junk yard, also spawns within the Harwood district.
• Parked in the Carson General Hospital car park on Staunton Island.
• Parked in the Francis International Airport car park in Shoreside Vale.

GTA Vice City Stories

• Parked in the junkyard in Little Haiti
• Obtainable through Cheat Codes
• Occaisionally spawns in Viceport.

GTA IV

• Found parked in the underpass of Fishmarket South, near Pier 45.
• Plenty spawn parked in a depot also near Pier 45.
• Spawns in the early hours of the morning around the city.