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2. Semi-trailer - Wikipedia

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   A rigid truck and full trailer are articulated inside the cargo area length, so a semi-trailer can have a longer continuous cargo area. Because of this, a semi-trailer can haul longer objects, (logs, pipe, beams, railway track). This depends on the legislation; in some European countries, a full trailer can be as long as a semi-trailer.

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 wide ...

4. Double-stack rail transport - Wikipedia

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   Double-stack rail transport. A container train passing through Jacksonville, Florida, with 53 ft (16.15 m) containers used for shipments within North America. Double-stack rail transport is a form of intermodal freight transport in which railroad cars carry two layers of intermodal containers. Invented in the United States in 1984, it is now ...

5. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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   For the packaging in general, see Shipping container. A 40-foot-long (12.2 m) shipping container. Each of its eight corners has an essential corner casting for hoisting, stacking, and securing. Containers stacked on a large ship. An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a ...

6. Well car - Wikipedia

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   Well car. 40 foot containers in well cars on the BNSF line through La Crosse. A well car, also known as a double-stack car (or also intermodal car / container car), is a type of railroad car specially designed to carry intermodal containers (shipping containers) used in intermodal freight transport. The "well" is a depressed section that sits ...

7. Compressed-hydrogen tube trailer - Wikipedia

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   Compressed-hydrogen tube trailer. Hydrogen tube trailers are semi-trailers that consist of 4 to 36 cluster high-pressure hydrogen tanks varying in length from 20 feet (6.10 m) for small tubes to 53 feet (16.15 m) on jumbo tube trailers. They are part of the hydrogen highway [1] and usually precede a local hydrogen station.

8. ISO 668 - Wikipedia

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   ISO 668 – Series 1 freight containers – Classification, dimensions and ratings is an ISO international standard which nominally classifies intermodal freight shipping containers, and standardizes their sizes, measurements and weight specifications. [1] The current version of the standard is the Seventh edition (2020), which integrates ...

9. Trailer (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   A full trailer is a term used in the United States and New Zealand [3] for a freight trailer supported by front and rear axles and pulled by a drawbar. In Europe this is known as an A-frame drawbar trailer, and in Australia it is known as a dog trailer. Commercial freight trailers are produced to length and width specifications defined by the ...