Regarding the OT PS: I believe I have seen these things in the States. I know I have seen a smaller version, called a Scoot Crete (http://www.millerspreader.com/scootcrete.html). It is like a powered wheelbarrow, and they use them for shuttling small batch of concrete from the concrete truck to where it is needed at a construction site. BTW...I was looking up the term "skip loader" on the web, and it appears to have two different meanings. In the States, it seems to be a synonym for a front-end loader, a tractor with a scoop on the front. Everywhere else, it seems to be a truck with a hoist in back for loading trash bins onto the truck. (I'm not sure what the generic term for the latter is the States, but our most popular brand is the Dempster Dumpmaster, and the trash bins are called Dempster Dumpsters.)