enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Semi-trailer truck - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer_truck

   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 ...

3. Trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trucking_industry_in_the...

   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.

4. History of the trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_trucking...

   Starting in 1910, the development of a number of technologies gave rise to the modern trucking industry. With the advent of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, improvements in transmissions, the move away from chain drives to gear drives, and the development of the tractor/semi-trailer combination, shipping by truck gained in popularity. [1]

5. Truck classification - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_classification

   The typical 5-axle tractor-trailer combination, also called a "semi" or "18-wheeler", is a Class 8 vehicle. [30] Standard trailers vary in length from 8 ft (2.4 m) containers to 57 ft (17 m) van trailers, with the most common length being the 53 ft (16 m) trailer. [31] Specialized trailers for oversized loads can be considerably longer.

6. Semi-trailer - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-trailer

   A tractor unit pulling a semi-trailer A truck pulling a semitrailer using a trailer dolly. A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle.The combination of a semi-trailer and a tractor truck is called a semi-trailer truck (also known simply as a "semi-trailer", "tractor trailer", or "semi" in the United States).

7. Gorgeous Tiny Trailers and RVs That Will Make You Want ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/finance/gorgeous-teardrop-trailers...

   The camper's original aerodynamic profile remains on the modern standard and deluxe models, available in 13- and 16-foot trailer versions, as well as a 19-foot fifth-wheel version.