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2. Ever wonder what's inside big rigs? These are the most ... - AOL

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   Trucks carry all kinds of goods, while rail and water modes most often carry bulk products, and air shipping is reserved for smaller quantities of high-value items, such as electronics and medicines.

3. Tractor unit - Wikipedia

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   Peterbilt 386 sleeper-cab–style commercial 6×4 tractor unit. A tractor unit, also known as a truck unit, lorry unit, power unit, prime mover, ten-wheeler, semi-tractor, semi-truck, semi-lorry, tractor cab, truck cab, lorry cab, big rig tractor, big rig truck or big rig lorry or simply a tractor, truck, lorry, semi, big rig or rig, is a characteristically heavy-duty towing engine that ...

4. Trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A common property-carrying commercial vehicle in the United States is the tractor-trailer, also known as an "18-wheeler" or "semi".. The trucking industry serves the American economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, works in process, and finished goods over land—typically from manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.

5. Brockway Motor Company - Wikipedia

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   His son George Brockway later turned the carriages into a truck manufacturer in 1909. The first trucks were high-wheelers. During World War I, Brockway built 587 Class B Liberty Trucks for the military. After the war they produced a new range from 1-ton to 5-tons. 1924 Brockway 2.5-ton truck on display at the Iowa 80 Trucking Museum, Walcott, Iowa.

6. Amazon and Volvo team up on big rig electric trucks, rolling ...

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   The rollout of Amazon's big rigs at the L.A. and Long Beach port complex is part of a shift to zero out pollution from trucking in California. Amazon and Volvo team up on big rig electric trucks ...

7. 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 ...