Truck
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A truck (American English) or
lorry (British English) is a motor vehicle, more specifically a
commercial vehicle commonly used for transporting goods and materials. Some
light trucks/lorries are similar in size to a passenger automobile.
Commercial transportation trucks/lorries or fire trucks can be large, and
can also serve as a platform for specialized equipment.
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In the United States and Canada "truck" is
usually reserved for commercial vehicles larger than normal cars, and for
pickups and other vehicles having an open load bed.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, lorry is used instead of truck, but only
used for the medium and heavy types (see below); i.e. a van, pickup or an
off-road four-wheel drive vehicle such as a Jeep may rarely be called a
truck in the United States, but would never be regarded as a lorry in the UK
or Ireland. The same applies to the initials HGV (for Heavy Goods Vehicle),
which is basically synonymous with lorry. What the Americans call a station
wagon is called an estate car in the UK.
In U.S. English, the word "truck" is used in the names of particular types
of truck, such as a "fire truck" or "tanker truck". Note that in British
English these would be a "fire engine" and "tanker" or "petrol tanker"
respectively.
"Lorry" is also used in Hong Kong.
The word "lorry" is also used in Cambodia, although there it can refer to a
train.[1]
In Australia and New Zealand, a pickup truck (a relatively small, usually
car- or van-derived vehicle, with an open back body) is usually called a ute
(short for "utility"), and the word "truck" or "lorry" is mostly reserved
for larger vehicles. The small utility truck was invented in Australia in
the 1930s.[2]
Other languages have loanwords based on these terms, such as the Malay
language and the Spanish language in northern Mexico.
A commonly understood term for truck across many European countries is
camion. Camion is also used in Quebec to identify trucks in French.
Additionally, from the German language the initials "PKW" (Personenkraftwagen
or passenger carrying vehicle) for a car/van or small truck and "LKW" (Lastkraftwagen
or cargo/load/freight carrying vehicle) for larger trucks are understood.
Nordic languages use a term similar to the German one: Lastbil (Danish and
Swedish), Lastebil (Norwegian) and Vörubíll (Icelandic), which all roughly
translates to "load car". It should be noted that the loanword "truck" in
these languages normally refers to a forklift.
In Italy TIR is widely used, albeit unofficially, to mean "long trucks",
with reference to the TIR Treaty. Smaller trucks are referred to as camion
(unofficially) or autocarri (official name: literally "automobile-wagon"). |
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