After attending Conexpo this year, it seems that scraper popularity is back. There were many manufacturers showing off their pans. The vibe I got for the earthmoving industry, was that there seems to be a shift towards the ADT's Pulling Pans.
Something like this may be the future to use up the existing ADT's in the operators fleets as a more effective method than toploading them with an excavator:
Something like this may be the future to use up the existing ADT's in the operators fleets as a more effective method than toploading them with an excavator: