nope.
There is also this type, which has no rotating barrel. Mixing of dry ingredients and water is done with an auger.
They may actually be delivering concrete, and not cement, but the common name for them around here is the cement truck. It’s like the whole “Is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit” thing. It depends on why you are asking.
Concrete truck, cement mixer, transit mixer; it’s all just communication, right?
Missed this thread the first time around.
Actually now that you asked. . .
It’s the Fundamentalist Mormons, but yes, there is a Mormon mafia of sorts which does a lot of concrete work. From the Salt Lake Tribune. How Utah concrete companies, using underpaid workers and teens, send money to a polygamous churchThey use the “lost boys,” the leftover males who are not going to be able to get brides and are exploited for labor then shoved out of the system. From Time.
I actually don’t know a lot about Fundamentalist Mormons. I heard about this connection on a now discontinued podcast Mormon Expression, by an ex-mormon. He claimed that the Fundamentalists were not the nicest people in the world and this was the reason he never discussed them on his podcast.
Front discharge mixers were invented by a guy in Utah:
However I’d say from casual observation Oshkosh Truck from Wisconsin has one of the biggest if not biggest market shares. There are other brands though.
Traditional rear discharge mixers still account for around 70% of new sales in North America.
Truth! In daily life, those of us at work drove “see-MENT mixers” 
We had a couple in the fleet. They were so ugly they were called “OhMyGosh”…
An excuse to post a link to this:
Funny that this thread got revived, but when I went to South Carolina for the eclipse, I saw a front discharge cement truck for the first time outside of Utah.
OK, so this isn’t something “new” or “recent” in Utah, as I noticed this as a kid in the late 70s, early 80s. I was born in Utah, but moved to Idaho and the later moved to AZ. I would only notice the front discharge trucks when I went back to visit family in Utah. Still, I notice inky front discharge trucks in Utah, now that I live there, and just came to AZ for the week, and still only see rear discharge here.
Looking around, it turns out that the trucks are a Utah invention, specifically because of all of the shortcomings of of the rear discharge trucks.
The first time I saw one of these while driving, it was turning from a side road onto the road I was on, headed the other way. I slowed way down until it was past, because my brain parsed it as “cement mixer driving backwards rapidly on the highway”, and I had no idea what was going on.
I saw it in Kentucky, though, so they are other places.
The type of cement mixer in the picture you provide is the only type I have seen here in Northern Indiana in over 20 years, as has been said front unloading cement mixers are much easier for the driver to maneuver. The driver can see where the cement crew wants the cement to be poured.The driver can also see if there are obstacles that must be avoided, something the cement crew isn’t always in tune with. Cement mixers that unload from the back are inherently more difficult to maneuver as the driver has to rely on the proper signaling, can’t see obstacles etc.
Oh, and by the way, it’s usually the cement delivery company that’s on the hook for any damage the driver does.
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Does anyone know where the front chute cement mixers were first invented? That piece of information may help solve this mystery.
I grew up in downstate New York in the 70’s, and all I saw were rear discharge. I moved to the Midwest in 1979, and all I’ve seen have been front discharge since.
I see a few types of concrete trucks in Michigan.
for small jobs (e.g. you’re putting up a shed and need a slab poured) you call for a “Mini-Mix” which is a light- or medium-duty truck with a small-ish rear-discharge drum.
for bigger jobs (foundations, parking lots, etc.) most of them are front discharge, rear-engine trucks like this.
For really big jobs like building a long stretch of road, they’ll just use dump trucks which haul in mixed concrete from a “hopper” in a staging area, and you have a continual stream of trucks dumping loads of concrete in front of the leveler/finisher. If the staging area is close by, they’ll use box dump trucks like this. I’ve also seen trucks like this, which also had a mixer/beater inside the dump barrel. I assume it’s for when the staging area is farther away and they use the beater to agitate the concrete and hold off curing.
