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2. Penske Truck Leasing - Wikipedia

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   Penske truck with loading ramp down. Penske Truck Rental is an operating unit of Penske Truck Leasing that has more than 2,500 consumer truck rental locations across the United States and Canada. Penske rents commercial semi-trucks, straight trucks and semi-trailers to businesses that haul freight. Its truck rental fleet has more than 85,000 units.

3. Loading dock - Wikipedia

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   There can be very serious accidents on loading bays. One example is trailer creep (also known as trailer walk, or dock walk), which occurs when the lateral and vertical forces exerted each time a forklift truck enters and exits the trailer cause the trailer to slowly move away from the dock, resulting in separation from the dock leveler.

4. Container chassis - Wikipedia

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   A container chassis, also called intermodal chassis or skeletal trailer, is a type of semi-trailer designed to securely carry an intermodal container. Chassis are used by truckers to deliver containers between ports , railyards, container depots, and shipper facilities, [ 1 ] : 2–3 and are thus a key part of the intermodal supply chain .

5. Roll-on/roll-off - Wikipedia

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   Procyon Leader stern quarter ramp Roll-on/Roll-off car carrying ship being boarded by articulated haulers at the Port of Baltimore. Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle ...

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

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   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]