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  2. Semi-trailer - Wikipedia

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    A tractor unit pulling a semi-trailer A truck pulling a semitrailer using a trailer dolly. A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle.The combination of a semi-trailer and a tractor truck is called a semi-trailer truck (also known simply as a "semi-trailer", "tractor trailer", or "semi" in the United States).

  3. Semi-trailer truck - Wikipedia

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    Conventional style cab tractor A cab-over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms – see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a ...

  4. History of the trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 1910, the development of a number of technologies gave rise to the modern trucking industry. With the advent of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, improvements in transmissions, the move away from chain drives to gear drives, and the development of the tractor/semi-trailer combination, shipping by truck gained in popularity. [1]

  5. Fruehauf Trailer Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Fruehauf Trailer Corporation, previously Fruehauf Trailer Company (1918–1963) and Fruehauf Corporation (1963–1989), [1] was an American company engaged in the manufacture and sale of truck trailers, and other machinery and equipment, with headquarters located in Detroit, Michigan.

  6. Transportation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A single railroad locomotive may pull fifty boxcars full of freight while a truck only pulls one. Trucks surpass trains in the weight category due their greater numbers, while trains surpass trucks in the ton-miles category due to the vast distances they travel carrying large amounts of freight.

  7. List of military trucks - Wikipedia

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    Company Truck Image Class Is there a civilian version Years in Production the armies which countries used AEC: AEC X/Y/Z: medium trucks: no: 1914-1918: United Kingdom

  8. List of the United States military vehicles by model number

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    M60A2 tank, full-tracked, remote controlled 20 mm, 152 mm Gun-Launcher (1970) M60A3 tank, combat, full-tracked, laser rangefinder, 900 hp engine, 105mm M60E1 tank, combat, full-tracked,British gun, 105mm

  9. Fifth-wheel coupling - Wikipedia

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    A Thornycroft steam tractor with articulated trailer competed in the 1898 heavy vehicle trials in Liverpool which took place from May 24 to May 28. [1] Built by the Steam Carriage and Wagon Company of Chiswick, the trailer and tractor unit were connected by a turntable though the details of the coupling are not revealed apart from a schematic.