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A flatbed truck (or flatbed lorry in British English) is a type of truck the bodywork of which is just an entirely flat, level 'bed' with no sides or roof. This allows for quick and easy loading of goods, and consequently they are used to transport heavy loads that are not delicate or vulnerable to rain, and also for abnormal loads that require ...
U-Haul Holding Company is an American moving truck, trailer, and self-storage rental company, based in Phoenix, Arizona, [1] that has been in operation since 1945. The company was founded by Leonard Shoen and Anna Mary Carty in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in a garage owned by Carty's family, and expanded it through franchising with gas stations.
The frame is usually fabricated steel. The primary flatbed surface can be constructed from wooden boards, plastic, steel or mesh. Flatbed casters can vary dramatically, made of solid rubber, air filled pneumatic or cast iron. The caster is generally the component on the flatbed trolley that limits the safe working capacity.
Ford F-650 flatbed. Medium trucks are larger than light but smaller than heavy trucks. In the US, they are defined as weighing between 14 001– 26 000 lb (6 351– 11 793 kg).In North America, a medium-duty truck is larger than a heavy-duty pickup truck or full-size van.
Flat wagons for carrying timber: the Class Snps 719 (front) and the Class Roos-t 642 (behind). Flat wagons (sometimes flat beds, flats or rail flats, US: flatcars), as classified by the International Union of Railways (UIC), are railway goods wagons that have a flat, usually full-length, deck (or 2 decks on car transporters) and little or no superstructure.
A truck with a bucket-like cargo area which the front can be raised, hinging on the rear, allowing the load to slide ("dump") out of the cargo area. Often a straight truck, semi-trailers are also common. Flatbeds and refuse container trucks can often "dump", but are rarely called that. [3] Eighteen-wheeler
A General Post Office (later British Telecom) version used for installing telegraph poles was known as the Pole King. [ 3 ] Available with inline four or inline six cylinder petrol and diesel engines from Bedford, Leyland and Perkins , the TK was the quintessential light truck in the United Kingdom through most of the 1960s and 1970s, competing ...
A flatcar (US) (also flat car, [1] or flatbed) is a piece of rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck mounted on trucks (US) or bogies (UK) at each end. Occasionally, flat cars designed to carry extra heavy or extra large loads are mounted on a pair (or rarely, more) of bogies under each end.