and is attached to a conveyor pipe 20 by means of a flexible coupler 18 collection tank 14 may be hydraulically tilted in a conventional manner being rotatable about pivot 15 connected to the chassis of truck 10 a bag filter housing 24 is fixedly attached to the chassis of truck 10 forwardly of collection tank 14 and a safety filter 26 is connected to the output of filter bag housing 24 safety filter 26 is connected into a blower 28 as is an intake filter 32 blower 28 has an exhaust conduit 29 which is connected in a manner to be hereinafter described a control panel 30 contains various displays and controls for operation of the equipment described herein from outside of truck 10 including the raising and lowering of tank 14 about pivot 15 vacuum pickup 16 has a wheel 17 mounted proximate its end and the apparatus is adapted so that wheel 17 rolls over the ground and the open end of vacuum pickup 16 is thereby placed only a fraction of an inch above the surface of the ground vacuum pickup 16 is connected to a pivot arm 34 by means of a plate 36 pivot arm 34 is connected to a remotely controllable hydraulic motor not shown which is coupled so as to rotate shaft 38 over a predetermined angle thereby causing pivot.