Why Euclid Trucks Was Forced Out of GM – The Antitrust Battle That Killed an Earthmover

In this video, we dig into the rise and fall of Euclid Trucks — the Ohio family company that built over half of America's off-highway dump trucks, got swallowed by General Motors in 1953, and then ripped away by a federal antitrust suit that dragged on for eight years. We cover the Armington family's pioneering engineering, GM's vertical integration play, the Department of Justice's Clayton Act case, and why the company that invented an entire category of machine never recovered after the government forced GM to give it back. #EngineeringHistory #HeavyEquipment #AntitrustLaw #DumpTrucks #GeneralMotors #OffHighway #MiningEquipment #IndustrialHistory #EarthMoving #AmericanManufacturing