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2. List of land vehicles types by number of wheels - Wikipedia

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   Six-wheel drive vehicle (6x6) Eight-wheel drive vehicle (8x8) Ten-wheel drive vehicle (10x10) Twelve-wheel drive vehicle (12x12) 18 wheeler; Many tracked vehicles such as tanks; Most rolling stock have more than four wheels, due to trucks having four wheels each, with multiple trucks per vehicle being common

3. Chassis configuration - Wikipedia

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   This means: If only the front wheels are steered, the rearmost part of the formula can be left out. The most common example is probably the 4×4 configuration. 6×4*4 is the chassis configuration for a vehicle with six wheels where four wheels are driven, in addition, the two front wheels as well as the rearmost two wheels are steered.

4. Wheel sizing - Wikipedia

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   A wheel used on a free rolling trailer axle will carry more weight than that same wheel used on the drive or steering axle of a vehicle. All wheels will have the load capacity stamped on the back of the wheel. The Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) is the maximum operating mass of a vehicle as specified by the manufacturer. In the United States ...

5. Axle load - Wikipedia

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   The standard rail weight for British railways is now 113 lb/yd (56.1 kg/m). Before the 1990s, most diesel locomotives were built to a maximum axle load of 19 long tons (19.3 tonnes; 21.3 short tons) so the maximum locomotive weight was 76 long tons (77.2 tonnes; 85.1 short tons) for a four-axle locomotive and 114 long tons (115.8 tonnes; 127.7 short tons) for a six-axle one.

6. Wheel arrangement - Wikipedia

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   In rail transport, a wheel arrangement or wheel configuration is a system of classifying the way in which wheels are distributed under a locomotive. [1] Several notations exist to describe the wheel assemblies of a locomotive by type, position, and connections, with the adopted notations varying by country.

7. Rostyle wheel - Wikipedia

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   The first appearance of Rostyle wheels on the Rover P5B met with descriptions of them by some testers as "raffish" and "gaudy", [3] and ill-befitting a luxury saloon. At that time, some Rover road testers also referred to the wheels as "Ro-style", suggesting that the name, if not the style, may have first been developed specifically for wheels ...