2. Types of trucks
• Small trucks
• Light trucks
• Medium trucks
• Heavy trucks
• Very heavy trucks and transporters
3. Small trucks
Mini Truck: Mini truck is the entry level
segment of commercial payload vehicles.
Generally they fall under sub 1000cc engine
category. These vehicles find their use in intra-
city low tonnage cargo delivery, like postal and
courier services or home delivery of appliances
from dealer to the customer.
5. Light trucks
• Minivan
• Sport utility vehicle
• Canopy express
• Pickup truck
• Panel truck
• Cab-forward
• Tow truck
• Panel van
• Sedan delivery
6. 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.
7. A sport utility vehicle (SUV) 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-drive vehicles are
termed as SUV. Some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with
the passenger-carrying space of a minivan
or large sedan
8. 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 radio equipment.
9. A pickup truck (also pick-up truck, pickup, bakkie in South Africa,
or ute—an abbreviation of "utility vehicle"—in Australia and New
Zealand) is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area
(bed).
10. A panel truck is a
windowless cargo van built on
a truck chassis.
11. The term cab forward refers to
various rail and road vehicle designs which place the driver's
compartment substantially farther towards the front than is
common practice.
12. A tow truck (also called a wrecker, a breakdown
truck, recovery truck or a breakdown lorry) is 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.
13. A panel van (or panelvan) is a form of solid (rigid-bodied,
non-articulated) van, smaller than a lorry or truck, without
rear side windows. In some national usages it is distinct from
a purpose-designed van in that it is based on the chassis of
a family car design.
14. 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. Sedan
deliveries have spartan interior trim and were used by businesses ranging from
plumbers to bakeries as cargo vans are used today.
15. Medium trucks
An Ford Econoline 350 box truck in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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
• Van
• Cutaway van chassis
• Medium Duty Truck such as Ford F-650 in North America
• Medium Standard Truck
• Platform truck
• Flatbed truck (may also be light duty trucks)
• Fire truck (may also be a heavy truck)
• Recreational Vehicle or Motorhome
• The following are not types of trucks but types of use of the
trucks listed above:
• Delivery truck, Multi-Stop truck, Bottler.
16. 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.
17. A van is a kind of vehicle used
for transporting goods or groups of people.
18. Cutaway van chassis are used by second stage manufactures 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
generally equipped with heavier components than most of their complete products. To these incomplete
vehicles, a second stage manufacturer adds specific equipment and completes the vehicle. Common
applications of this type of vehicle design and manufacturing includes small trucks, school
buses, recreational vehicles, minibuses, and ambulances.
19. Recreational vehicles (motor homes)
A class C motor home based upon a cutaway van chassis
A recreational vehicle (or "RV") is a motor vehicle dually used as both a vehicle and a
temporary travel home. They are also called "motor homes" and are very popular in
North America. By the mid 1970s, recreational vehicle builders were building models
based upon cutaway van chassis.
20. Commercial minibuses
This TransLink-owned community shuttle bus at the University of British Columbia, University Endowment
Lands, BC, Canada, is built upon a Ford cutaway van chassis with a body added by a second stage
manufacturer.
Seeking to expand product offerings, several recreational vehicle manufacturers, notably Champion, ElDorado
National Turtletop, and others also developed minibus models using cutaway van chassis and body construction
similar to their motor homes With their products, they joined the school bus body companies in seeking and
expanding markets.
21. Electric platform trucks are electric powered trucks with a
large flat surface for holding objects to be transported. Some
are also called warehouse utility vehicles, electric trolley
carts, or powered platform truck vehicles.[1] Electric tugs can
be combined with non powered carts orhand trucks to
achieve the same result.
22. A flatbed truck (or flatbed lorry in British English) 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.
This allows for quick and easy loading of goods, and consequently
they are used to transport heavy loads that are not delicate or
vulnerable to precipitation, such as construction equipment, and also
for abnormal loads that require more space than is available on a
closed body.
23. A fire apparatus, fire engine, fire truck, or fire appliance is a
vehicle designed to assist in fighting fires by
transporting firefighters to the scene and providing them
with access to the fire, along with water or other equipment.
In some areas, the terms fire engine and fire truckrepresent
different types of firefighting apparatus.
24. 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.
25. Delivery is the process of transporting goods. Most goods are delivered through
a transportation network. Cargo (physical goods) are primarily delivered
via roads and railroads on land, shipping lanes on the sea
and airline networks in the air. Certain specialized goods may be delivered
via other networks, such as pipelines for liquid goods, power grids for electrical
power and computer networks such as the Internet or broadcast networks for
electronic information.
26. Multi-stop trucks (also known as walk-in delivery or step vans) 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 the name "Walk-In Delivery" van. They are
taller than full-size vans such as the Ford Econoline, Dodge A-Series/B-
Series/Ram Vans, and Chevrolet G-Series vans, but can have wheelbases that are
shorter than these models or longer.
28. Heavy trucks
Scammell ballast tractor at the Torbay Steam Fair in August 2007.
Note the frontdrawbar connection coupling for pushing heavy loads.
Except for semi-trailer trucks and, generally, mobile cranes, the
following types may also come in medium sizes
• Ballast tractor
• Concrete transport truck(cement mixer)
• Crane truck or mobile crane or truck-mounted crane
• Dump truck
• Garbage truck
• Log carrier
• Refrigerator truck
• Semi-trailer truck also known in British English as
"Artic" for 'articulated lorry'
• Tank truck or tanker or tanker lorry in British English
(can also be a Medium truck)
29. 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. By contrast an articulated tractor
unit pulls from a "fifth wheel", and only pushes when reversing its
load.
30. A concrete mixer (also commonly called a cement 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.
For smaller volume works portable concrete mixers are often used so that the concrete
can be made at the construction site, giving the workers ample time to use the concrete
before it hardens. An alternative to a machine is mixing concrete or cement by hand
31. 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 is mainly used for lifting heavy
things and transporting them to other places. It uses one or moresimple
machines to create mechanical advantage and thus move loads beyond the
normal capability of a man
32. A dump truck (or, UK, dumper truck) is a truck used for transporting loose material
(such as sand, gravel, or dirt) 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 delivery. In the UK and Australia the term applies to off-road construction plant only,
and the road vehicle is known as a tipper, tipper lorry (UK) or tip truck (AU).
33. Garbage truck refers to a truck specially designed to collect small quantities
of waste and haul the collected waste to a solid waste treatment facility. Other common
names for this type of truck include trash truck and dump truck in the United States,
and bin wagon, dustcart, dustbin lorry, bin lorry and bin motor elsewhere. Technical
names include waste collection vehicle and refuse collection vehicle. These trucks are a
common sight in most urban areas
34. Logging truck : A timber lorry or log truck is a large
motor vehicle used to carry wooden logs.
35. A lowboy (low loader in British English) or dolly in Australia is
a semi-trailer with two drops in deck height: one right after the
gooseneck and one right before the wheels. This allows the deck to be
extremely low compared with other trailers. It offers the ability to
carry legal loads up to 12 ft (3.66 m) tall, which other trailers
cannot.
36. Very heavy trucks and
transporters
• Ballast tractor (though most are smaller than
this)
• Heavy hauler
37. A ballast tractor is a heavy haulage road vehicle designed to pull or
push heavy or exceptionally large loads. Unlike the tractor unit from
anarticulated trailer the ballast tractor is designed or adapted to
pull or push loads from a drawbar. By contrast an articulated
tractor unit pulls from a "fifth wheel, and only pushes when reversing
its load.
38. A heavy hauler is a very large transporter for moving oversize
loads which are too large to go on a highway without an
escort and special permit.