Types of Trucks
There is a classification for trucks according to their weight.
Mini trucks – they are also called Kei trucks or Japanese mini trucks. This is class of light vehicles.
Light trucks, which can be divided into:
- Minivan – is used for a personal aims and is like a automobile similar in shape to a van
- Sports utility vehicle (SUV) – a vehicle similar to a station wagon, but built on a light-truck chassis. It can be called sport-ute.
- Canopy express – a light-duty cargo van
- Pickup truck – is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area for heavy loads.
- Panel truck – is a windowless cargo van.
- Pickup van – is a kind of vehicle that is used to transport goods, things,and even people
- Tow truck (may also be a medium or heavy truck) – s a vehicle used to transport motor vehicles to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface.
- Panel van – is widely used in many parts of the world for transporting cargo.
- Sedan delivery – is a two-door station wagon with solid panels in place of the rear side windows.
Medium trucks:
- Box truck – s a truck with a cuboid-shaped cargo area.
- Van – is usually a box-shaped vehicle on four wheels. It has the same width and length as a large automobile
- Cutaway van chassis – these are small trucks, school buses, recreational vehicles, minibuses, and ambulances.
- Firetruck – used to assist in fighting fires by transporting firefighters to a place of fire and give them access to the fire, water or other equipment.
- Flatbed truck – has an entirely flat, level body with absolutely no sides or roof. It is used for construction equipment.
- Recreational Vehicle (Motorhome) – used to refer to a vehicle equipped with living space and amenities found in a home
- Delivery truck, Multi-Stop truck, Bottler
Heavy trucks, which are used to carry heavy things and loads and can be divided into:
- Ballast tractor – is a heavy haulage road vehicle used to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads.
- Concrete transport truck (cement mixer) – used to mix cement and aggregate (sand, gravel, water) to form concrete.
- Crane truck (mobile crane, truck-mounted crane) – used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally.
- Dump truck – used for transporting loose material (sand, gravel, dirt) for construction.
- Garbage truck – used to pick up smaller quantities of waste and haul it to landfills and other recycling or treatment facilities.
- Log carrier – used to transport heavy loads that are not delicate or vulnerable to precipitation (construction equipment)
- Refrigerator truck – used to carry perishable freight at specific low temperatures.
- Semi-trailer truck (articulated lorry) – is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine and a semi-trailer that carries the freight.
- Tank truck – used to carry dry cargo or gases on roads.
Very heavy trucks and transporters:
- Ballast tractor – used to pull or push very heavy or exceptionally large loads.
- Heavy hauler – is used to move oversize loads which are too large to go on a highway without an escort and special permit.
As you see, list of truck types is not short…
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