Dump truck periphery monitoring apparatus

A dump truck comprising:

• a vehicle body;
• a vessel movably connected to the vehicle body;
• and
• a periphery monitoring apparatus adapted to display an image of surroundings of the dump truck on a display apparatus, the periphery monitoring apparatus including
• a plurality of cameras configured and arranged to capture camera images of the surroundings of the dump truck, the plurality of cameras including a rearward camera that is attached to the vehicle body of the dump truck so as to be disposed underneath the vessel of the dump truck and positioned forward of a rear edge portion of the vessel, the rearward camera being configured and arranged such that a rearward camera image captured by the rearward camera includes the rear edge portion of the vessel, an area below the vessel, and an area rearward of the vehicle body;
• and
• a display control section configured to display a vehicle body outer edge line superimposed on the rearward camera image, the vehicle body outer edge line being obtained by vertically projecting an outer edge of the vessel onto a ground surface based on a vehicle body outer edge line data generated by vertically projecting the outer edge of the vessel onto the ground surface, the outer edge of the vessel being defined by a mounting position of the rearward camera and a position of the vessel.