For meanings of the word truck see also: Truck (disambiguation)

Truck (disambiguation)

A truck is a vehicle for carrying goods and materials.Truck or trucks may also refer to:*Truck , a Malaysian pop group*Trucks , a British pop-punk band...

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This list is intended to classify trucks and to provide links to articles on the various types. The three main classifications for road truck by weight are light trucks, medium trucks, and heavy trucks. Above this there are specialised very heavy trucks and transporters such as heavy haulers for moving oversized loads, and off-road heavy trucks used in construction

Construction

In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...

 and mining

Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

 which are too large for highway use without escorts and special permits.

In the UK, trucks (lorries) are defined by the driving licence required. Heavy Goods Vehicles is a term normally applied to vehicles greater than 7½ tonnes. Drivers who passed their car test before 1997 can drive vehicles up to 7½ tonnes (8¼ tonnes combined with trailer), whereas car drivers who passed their test on or after 1 January 1997 are limited by EU Directive 91/439/EEC to "Category B" vehicles (having a Maximum Authorised Mass of 3½ tonnes).

Light trucks

• Minivan
  Minivan
  Minivan is a type of van designed for personal use. Minivans are typically either two-box or one box designs for maximum interior volume – and are taller than a sedan, hatchback, or a station wagon....
  
  
• Sport utility vehicle
  Sport utility vehicle
  A sport utility vehicle is a generic marketing term for a vehicle similar to a station wagon, but built on a light-truck chassis. It is usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on- or off-road ability, and with some pretension or ability to be used as an off-road vehicle. Not all four-wheel...
  
  
• Canopy express
  Canopy express
  A Canopy express is a light-duty cargo van based on the chassis of a panel truck. Canopy express vehicles have open display areas behind the driver's seat commonly used for peddling vegetables and fruit, but also used for other kinds of deliveries that require easy access, such as newspapers and...
  
  
• Pickup truck
  Pickup truck
  A pickup truck is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area .-Definition:...
  
  
• Panel truck
  Panel truck
  A panel truck is a windowless cargo van built on a truck chassis.Similar in function to its smaller cousin, the sedan delivery; which is a station wagon with no backseat, and no side windows aft of the front doors...
  
  
• Cab-forward
• Tow truck
  Tow truck
  A tow truck is a vehicle used to transport motor vehicles to another location , or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface.Towing services are generally provided by an emergency road service operator...
  
   (may also be a medium or heavy truck)
• Panel van
  Panel van
  A panel van is a form of solid van, smaller than a lorry or truck, without rear side windows...
  
  
• Sedan delivery
  Sedan delivery
  A sedan delivery, commonly called a delivery in American English and a car derived van in British English, is a two-door station wagon with a driver or driver and front passenger seats, and steel sheet-metal panels in place of rear side windows...
  
  

Medium trucks

Some of the truck types listed under heavy trucks may also come in medium sizes. In North America, a medium duty truck is larger than a heavy-duty pickup truck or full-size van.

• Box truck
  Box truck
  A box truck, also known as a cube truck, cube van, bob truck, box van, or straight truck, is a truck with a cuboid-shaped cargo area.-Road vehicles:...
  
  
• Van
  Van
  A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people.In British English usage, it can be either specially designed or based on a saloon or sedan car, the latter type often including derivatives with open backs...
  
  
• Cutaway van chassis
  Cutaway van chassis
  Cutaway van chassis are used by second stage manufacturers for a wide range of completed motor vehicles. Especially popular in the United States, they are usually based upon incomplete vans made by manufacturers such as Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors which are...
  
  
• Medium Duty Truck
  Medium duty truck
  A medium duty truck is generally larger than heavy-duty pickup trucks or full-size vans.Examples in North America include* Chevrolet/GMC B-Series* Chevrolet Kodiak* Ford F-650/F-700/F-750* International Harvester S-Series...
  
   such as Ford F-650
  Ford F-650
  The Ford F-650/F-750 Super Duty are medium-duty commercial trucks produced by Ford Motor Company. They were introduced by Ford in 2000, replacing the previous-generation F-600, F-700, and F-800 trucks introduced in 1980. They are made mainly for use as utilitarian trucks for towing, heavy hauling,...
  
   in North America
• Medium Standard Truck
• Platform truck
• Flatbed truck
  Flatbed truck
  A flatbed truck is a type of truck which can be either articulated or rigid. As the name suggests, it has an entirely flat, level 'bed' body with no sides or roof...
  
   (may also be light duty trucks)
• Firetruck (may also be a heavy truck)
• Recreational Vehicle
  Recreational vehicle
  Recreational vehicle or RV is, in North America, the usual term for a Motor vehicle or trailer equipped with living space and amenities found in a home.-Features:...
  
   or Motorhome

The following are not types of trucks but types of use of the trucks listed above:

• Delivery truck, Multi-Stop truck
  Multi-Stop truck
  Multi-stop trucks are a type of light-duty and medium-duty truck created for local deliveries to residences and businesses. They are almost always forward-control vehicles, designed to be driven either sitting down or standing up, and often provide easy access between the driver and goods, hence...
  
  , Bottler
  Bottler
  Bottler may refer to:*Bottling company, a company which mixes drink ingredients and fills up cans and bottles with the drink.*"Bottler" also a name used to describe truck bodies with roll-up side doors specifically designed to carry soda and/or beer bottles, and even propane tanks.*"Bottler" is...
  
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Heavy trucks

Except for semi-trailer trucks and, generally, mobile cranes, the following types may also come in medium sizes.

• Ballast tractor
  Ballast tractor
  A ballast tractor is a heavy haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads. Unlike the tractor unit from an articulated trailer, the ballast tractor is designed or adapted to pull or push loads from a drawbar...
  
  
• Concrete transport truck
  Concrete mixer
  A concrete mixer is a device that homogeneously combines cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel, and water to form concrete. A typical concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to mix the components...
  
   (cement mixer)
• Crane
  Crane (machine)
  A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It uses one or more simple machines to create mechanical advantage and thus move loads beyond the normal capability of...
  
   truck or mobile crane or truck-mounted crane
• Dump truck
  Dump truck
  A dump truck is a truck used for transporting loose material for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with a hydraulically operated open-box bed hinged at the rear, the front of which can be lifted up to allow the contents to be deposited on the ground behind the truck at the site of...
  
  
• Garbage truck
• Log carrier
• Refrigerator truck
  Refrigerator truck
  A refrigerator truck is a van or truck designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Like refrigerator cars, refrigerated trucks differ from simple insulated and ventilated vans , neither of which are fitted with cooling apparatus...
  
  
• Semi-trailer truck
  Semi-trailer truck
  A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or articulated truck or articulated lorry, is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine , and a semi-trailer A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) articulated truck...
  
   also known in British English as "Artic" for 'articulated lorry
  Articulated vehicle
  An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivoting joint in its construction, allowing the vehicle to turn more sharply. There are many kinds of articulated vehicles, from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains...
  
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• Tank truck
  Tank truck
  A tank truck or road tanker is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquefied loads, dry bulk cargo or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars which are also designed to carry liquefied loads...
  
   or tanker or tanker lorry in British English (can also be a Medium truck)

Very heavy trucks and transporters

Vehicles in this category are too large for highway use without escorts and special permits.

• Ballast tractor
  Ballast tractor
  A ballast tractor is a heavy haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads. Unlike the tractor unit from an articulated trailer, the ballast tractor is designed or adapted to pull or push loads from a drawbar...
  
   (though most are smaller than this)
• Heavy hauler
  Heavy hauler
  A heavy hauler is a very large transporter for moving oversize loads which are toolarge to go on a highway without an escort and special permit.-Types of vehicles:...