Flashcards: Trucks

The ZIL-157 is a general purpose  2 1⁄2-ton 6x6 truck, produced in post-WW2 Soviet Russia.

A forklift (also called a lift truck, a fork truck, or a forklift truck) is a powered industrial truck used to lift and move materials short distances.

Garbage truck or dustcart refers to a truck specially designed to collect municipal solid waste and haul the collected waste to a solid waste treatment facility such as a landfill.

A winter service vehicle (WSV), or snow removal vehicle, is used to clear thoroughfares of ice and snow.

The Pinzgauer is a family of high-mobility all-terrain 4WD (4×4) and 6WD (6×6) military utility vehicles.

A semi-trailer truck is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

The Fiat 626 was an Italian medium truck that met specifications for the Italian army and air force for military operations prior to World War II.

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a lorry driver, or driver in Ireland, the United Kingdom, India and Pakistan) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck (usually a semi truck, box truck or dump truck).

The Palletized Load System (PLS) is a truck-based logistics system that entered service in the United States Army in 1993.

For the alternative name for a sack truck (trolley truck), see Hand truck A trolleytruck (also known as a freight trolley or trolley truck) is a trolleybus-like vehicle used for carrying cargo instead of passengers.

The M19 Tank Transporter (US supply catalog designation G159) was a heavy tank transporter system used in World War II and into the 1950s.

Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources.

A steam wagon (steam lorry or steam waggon) is a steam-powered road vehicle for carrying freight.

A hybrid electric truck is a form of truck that uses hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technology for propulsion, instead of using only a combustion engine.

produced from 1907 until 1937 built by the James Cunningham, Son & Company of Rochester, N.

Fargo was a brand of truck originally produced in the United States in 1913 by the Fargo Motor Car Company.

Truck classifications are typically based upon the maximum loaded weight of the truck (typically using the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) and sometimes also the gross trailer weight rating (GTWR)), and can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

Vehicle recovery is the recovery of any vehicle to another place, generally speaking with a commercial vehicle known as a recovery vehicle, tow truck or spectacle lift.

A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food.