Municipal equipment comprises machinery and vehicles for the cleaning, maintenance and management of public spaces and municipal infrastructure. Key areas include sweepers (ride-on and truck-mounted models) as well as cleaning vehicles for pavements, roads and public spaces.
For winter maintenance, winter service equipment, gritting vehicles for salt and grit, and snow blowers for heavy snowfall are used. Municipal vehicles, as universally adaptable equipment carriers (e.g. Unimog class), allow for year-round use with interchangeable attachments. Municipal mowers handle the maintenance of roadside verges and parkland.
Leading manufacturers include Hako, Kärcher, Bucher, Schmidt, Aebi Schmidt, Boschung, Unimog, MULAG, Kubota and Iseki.
Municipal machinery is used by towns and local authorities, in municipal depots, by road maintenance departments, at airports, in logistics centres with large outdoor areas, and by gardening and landscaping service providers.