![A #406 Tonka dump truck, evidently never played with, achieved $2,800 plus the buyer’s premium in January 2022. Image courtesy of Milestone Auctions and LiveAuctioneers.](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/besmart-4.jpg)
NEW YORK — Ever since the first Tonka toy truck rolled off the manufacturing line in Mound, Minnesota in 1947, it has been a perennial favorite with boys and girls of all ages. Today, the Tonka line, which is now owned by Hasbro, has released hundreds of thousands of toy vehicles, and more than a dozen new trucks are in the current production line.