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  2. Box truck - Wikipedia

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    Isuzu Elf box truck. A box truck—also known as a box van, cube van, bob truck [1] or cube truck—is a chassis cab truck with an enclosed cuboid-shaped cargo area. [2] On most box trucks, the cabin is separate to the cargo area; however some box trucks have a door between the cabin and the cargo area, box trucks tend to be larger than cargo vans and smaller than tractor-trailers with movable ...

  3. Car carrier trailer - Wikipedia

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    Trailers can either be enclosed, possessing walls like a conventional box trailer, which affords the shipped vehicles more protection at the cost of lower capacity; or open, as in the commonly seen skeletal tube steel design, which exposes the vehicles to the elements but allows for greater carrying capacity.

  4. Autorack - Wikipedia

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    These cars were a big success and helped lead to the development of today's enclosed auto racks. In 1959, when 85 ft (25.91 m) flat cars capable of carrying two 40-foot (12.19 m) highway trailers in trailer-on-flatcar (TOFC), or " piggyback " service were introduced, new automobiles began to be shipped by rail loaded on highway auto-carrier ...

  5. Trailer (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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    A utility trailer is a general purpose trailer designed to by towed by a light vehicle and to carry light, compact loads of up to a few metric tonnes. It typically has short metal sides (either rigid or folding) to constrain the load, and may have cage sides, and a rear folding gate or ramps.

  6. Glossary of the American trucking industry - Wikipedia

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    A simple, enclosed box of standardized sizes, used for intermodal transport. [10] Container skeletal carrier A skeletal trailer composed of a simple chassis for the mounting of an intermodal container. [38] Covered wagon A flatbed with specially fitted side plates and curved ribs supporting a tarp covering, commonly referred to as a "side kit".

  7. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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    In 1949, while at Brown Trailers Inc. of Spokane, Washington, he modified the design of their stressed skin aluminum 30-foot trailer, to fulfil an order of two-hundred 30 by 8 by 8.5 feet (9.14 m × 2.44 m × 2.59 m) containers that could be stacked two high, for Alaska-based Ocean Van Lines. Steel castings on the top corners provided lifting ...

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