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Container Chassis - Single-purpose semitrailer designed to carry a shipping container. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA) Related Terms: Container Chassis - container | shipping container | trucking | Converter Dolly - Auxiliary axle assembly equipped with a fifth wheel (coupling device), towed by a semitrailer and supporting the front of, and towing, another semitrailer. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Converter Dolly - dolly | trucking | Cube - Interior volume of a truck body, semitrailer or trailer, measured in cubic feet. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Cube - cubic capacity | trucking | Cubic Capacity - Interior volume of a truck body, semitrailer or trailer, measured in cubic feet. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Cubic Capacity - cube | trucking | Dolly - Auxiliary axle assembly equipped with a fifth wheel (coupling device), towed by a semitrailer and supporting the front of, and towing, another semitrailer. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Dolly - converter dolly | trucking | Doubles - Combination of a tractor and two semitrailers connected in tandem by a converter dolly. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Doubles - converter dolly | pintle hook | trucking | twins | twin trailers | Fifth Wheel - Coupling device attached to a tractor or dolly which supports the front of a semitrailer and locks it to the tractor or dolly. The fifth wheel's center is designed to accept a trailer's kingpin, around which the trailer and tractor or dolly pivot in turns.
Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)
Related Terms: Fifth Wheel - sliding fifth wheel | trucking | Gross Combination Weight - Total weight of a loaded combination vehicle, such as a tractor-semitrailer or truck and full trailer(s). Acronym: GCW Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Gross Combination Weight - gross vehicle weight | trucking | Kingpin Trailer - Anchor pin at the center of a semitrailer's upper coupler which is captured by the locking jaws of a tractor's fifth wheel to attach the tractor to the semitrailer. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Kingpin Trailer - kingpin axle | trucking | Landing Gear (1) - Retracting legs which support the front of a semitrailer when it is not coupled to a tractor.
Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)
Related Terms: Landing Gear (1) - trailer | trucking | Long Combination Vehicle - In general, vehicles longer than a standard doubles rig (tractor and two 28-foot semitrailers). Examples of LCVs which are permitted in some U.S. western states and eastern toll roads: Twin 48-foot trailers; triple 28-foot trailers. Acronym: LCV Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Long Combination Vehicle - trailer | trucking | Piggyback - Semitrailer built with reinforcements to withstand transport by a railroad flatcar. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Piggyback - container on flat car | trailer on flat car | trucking | Pup Trailer - Short semitrailer, usually between 26 and 32 feet long, with a single axle. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Pup Trailer - trailer | trucking | RoadRailer - Semitrailer specially designed to travel both on highway and on rails. Manufactured by Wabash Corp. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: RoadRailer - highway | rails | semitrailer | trucking | Semitrailer (1) - Truck trailer supported at the rear by its own wheels and at the front by a fifth wheel mounted to a tractor or dolly. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Semitrailer (1) - trailer | trucking | Slider - Mechanism that allows a tandem axle suspension to be moved back and forth at the rear of a semitrailer, for the purpose of adjusting the distribution of weight between the axles and fifth wheel. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Slider - fixed tandem | sliding tandem | trucking | Sliding Tandem - Mechanism that allows a tandem axle suspension to be moved back and forth at the rear of a semitrailer, for the purpose of adjusting the distribution of weight between the axles and fifth wheel. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Sliding Tandem - fixed tandem | slider | trucking | Tractor (1) - Truck designed primarily to pull a semitrailer by means of a fifth wheel mounted over the rear axle(s). Sometimes called a truck tractor or highway tractor to differentiate from it from a farm tractor.
Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)
Related Terms: Tractor (1) - truck | trucking | Tractor Trailer - Tractor and semitrailer combination.
Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)
Related Terms: Tractor Trailer - tractor | trailer | truck | trucking | Trailer On Flat Car (1) - Method of moving cargo which involves transporting semitrailers on railroad flat cars. Acronym: TOFC Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Trailer On Flat Car (1) - container on flat car | piggyback | trucking | Tridem - Group of three axles on a truck, tractor or trailer. Tridems are most common on European semitrailers. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Tridem - axle | tri-axle | trucking | Twin Trailers - Combination of a tractor and two semitrailers connected in tandem by a converter dolly. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Twin Trailers - converter dolly | doubles | pintle hook | trucking | twins | Twins - Combination of a tractor and two semitrailers connected in tandem by a converter dolly. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Twins - converter dolly | pintle hook | trucking | twin trailers | Upper Coupler - Load bearing surface on the underside of the front of a semitrailer. It rests on the fifth wheel of a tractor or dolly and has a downward-protruding kingpin which is captured by the locking jaws of the fifth wheel. Reference: Truck Writers of North America (TWNA)Related Terms: Upper Coupler - fifth wheel | trucking |
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