Though only founded in 1979, Scarab has certainly made a major impact on the sweeper market. It all began earlier when the Late Rodger Hoadley and two colleagues came up with a radically different approach to truck based sweepers. Up until then, sweepers were built by mounting a self contained sweeper body onto a conventional truck chassis. The vehicle was propelled by the truck engine and transmission, while the sweepers main suction fan, main sweeping brush, side brushes and tipping gear were operated by a Auxiliary engine.

Rodger knew that it would be far more cost effective to do away with the donkey engine, saving weight and releasing valuable extra capacity for the hopper and water tank. The problem was how to drive all that sweeper equipment and the vehicle with a single engine. The answer was relatively simple: to add a transfer box into the driveline, and use the engine to drive a hydraulic pump and thus generate the required hydraulic power, the Scarab Hydrostatic drive was created. This solution has considerable advantages; with the hydrostatic drive disconnected, the vehicle can travel at speed between jobs, or to and from waste sites, with the hydrostatic drive engaged, power is provided to drive the vehicle, the suction fan, the brushes, spray systems etc.

By 1988 and years of research and development the first Single-engined truckmount sweeper was on the production line, with in no time it proved a success and from that point on Scarab have never looked back, but always forward with an eye for improving every aspect of the modern sweeper, so far we think we`ve done a very good job.

The first Scarabs the MKII quickly gained the young company a reputation for innovation and versatility. By 1984 the Minor, was in production, mounted on the versatile Multicar chassis. It was to prove a resounding success. By the end of the decade, the chassis was 'all Scarab' and the Minor started to excel. Scarab's familiar evolutionary process was firmly in evidence and in 1992, the hydrostatic Minor made its debut, establishing a policy of continuous development that can be traced directly to the current model, the VM Minor.

By 1988 the first of the single-engine range the well-known Major Hydrostatic truck-mounted machines were leaving the factory, by now the Scarab name had firmly made its mark and the single-engine design truly changed the way the world looked at truck-mount sweepers, in the early 90`s we pushed the Single-engine design even further by producing the Scarab Maxim Unidrive range and the deceptively capacious Monic with its unique Omni-drive system, proving that Scarab's flair for innovation was as strong as ever.

As the century turned, 22 years after the Scarab story began, the Scarab Merlin and Magnum truckmounts, natural successors to the Scarab Major and Maxim range , started rolling off the production lines, bringing to bear the combined experience of Rodger Hoadley, his design engineers and Scarab users from around the world.