Abstract: A garbage collecting and transport vehicle, includes a chassis supporting a changing container which receives garbage which is picked up by a pivotal garbage can loader arm which is mounted on the chassis so as to be pivotal through an arc to raise the garbage can containing the garbage, and invert the can to dump it into a garbage loader housing which is located on the chassis in front of the changing container. The loader housing includes pickup blade which is pivotally mounted in the garbage loading housing to move it up to the level of a transfer opening which aligns with an inlet opening on the changing container. The closing blade which in one position closes the opening is first moved to a position in which it closes the inlet to the loader housing and, after the garbage is picked up by the pickup blade, it moves back to the transfer opening and pushes the garbage into the changing container.