UNSPSC 25101916: Hopper truck

A specially designed truck with telescoping screens at the rear of the truck as openings. The truck can dump bulk materials such as sand, ballast, grain, etc by gradually lowering its screen openings.

UNSPSC 25101916 Hopper truck (Commodity) represents specialized utility and material-handling vehicles that state and local governments buy for operational and fleet needs across diverse departments. Recent solicitations show this code capturing a wide range of specialized vehicles beyond the narrow "hopper truck" category name — including police pursuit and command vehicles, airport equipment trucks, autonomous shuttles, bookmobiles, cemetery casket-moving vehicles, landscape dump trucks, delivery trucks, and general utility pickups and vans. The code appears to be a catch-all Commodity tier category capturing single-unit or small-fleet vehicle acquisitions where agencies need custom fabrication, upfitting, or specialized configurations.

Issuing bodies span city police departments (Wichita, Phoenix, Charlotte, Meriden, Butts County), county and regional authorities (San Bernardino County, Montgomery County, Pasco County, Hillsborough County, Eastern Municipal Water District), state departments and special-purpose agencies (Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet, Michigan DNR, Nevada Department of Corrections, Texas Health and Human Services Commission), municipal transit and airport authorities (Savannah Airport Commission, City of Altamonte Springs autonomous shuttle service), school districts (Katy ISD), and public colleges (Houston Community College). Geographic activity spans Texas (Charlotte police vehicles, Wichita command vehicles, Katy ISD delivery truck), California (Arlington electric mowers, San Bernardino County vehicles), Florida (Pasco County as-needed Ford vehicles, Hilsborough County passenger vans), Georgia (Augusta ARFF vehicle, Butts County police truck, Savannah Airport Class III truck and RFQ vehicles), Kentucky (Veterans Affairs cemetery vehicles, State Police Mobile DNA vehicle), Kansas (Wichita bomb squad and command vehicles), Michigan (DNR Landmaster UTVs), and other states. Representative recent opportunities include the City of Charlotte's ITB 269-2026-173 for police pursuit vehicles (indefinite quantity, unit-price contract for marked and unmarked SUVs and trucks from Chevrolet, Dodge, and Ford, responses due June 9, 2026); Eastern Municipal Water District's RFB 3941 for two 3/4-ton pickup trucks (white, 2025 or newer, responses due June 11, 2026); Savannah Airport Commission's RFQ 2026-0004 for one Class III 4WD truck with 9-foot Reading landscape dump (responses due March 5, 2026); City of Wichita's RFP 260091 for a custom bomb squad command vehicle (responses due May 15, 2026); and Katy ISD's RFP 2511SM for a Hino delivery truck for nutrition services (responses due March 17, 2026, estimated expenditure $140,000). Most solicitations are ITB, RFB, or RFP format; response windows range from two to eight weeks; and recent awards reflect competitive pricing-driven evaluation with secondary weight on delivery timelines, vendor experience, and warranty terms. The code shows steady mid-volume activity across Q1–Q2 2026, with no dominant regional concentration but notable clustering in Texas, California, Georgia, and Florida jurisdictions.