Truck | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck


00:00:56 1 History
00:01:05 1.1 Steam wagons
00:01:53 1.2 Internal combustion
00:03:17 1.3 Diesel engines
00:04:04 1.4 Etymology
00:05:53 1.5 International variance
00:06:40 2 Types by size
00:06:50 2.1 Ultra light
00:07:30 2.2 Very light
00:09:08 2.3 Light
00:09:47 2.4 Medium
00:10:24 2.5 Heavy
00:11:03 2.6 Off-road
00:11:30 2.7 Maximum sizes by country
00:13:09 3 Design
00:13:37 3.1 Cab
00:15:50 3.2 Engines and motors
00:17:30 3.3 Drivetrain
00:19:58 3.4 Frame
00:21:04 3.5 Body types
00:22:57 4 Sales and sales issues
00:23:06 4.1 Manufacturers
00:23:15 4.2 Truck market worldwide
00:23:24 5 Driving
00:23:42 5.1 Australia
00:25:29 5.2 Europe
00:26:11 5.3 India
00:26:23 5.4 South Africa
00:28:05 5.5 United States
00:29:55 6 Environmental impact
00:32:16 7 Operator health and safety
00:33:48 8 Operations issues
00:33:57 8.1 Taxes
00:34:30 8.2 Damage to pavement
00:35:06 8.3 Commercial insurance
00:36:40 8.4 Trucking accidents
00:38:10 9 Truck shows
00:38:57 10 See also



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SUMMARY
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A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration; smaller varieties may be mechanically similar to some automobiles. Commercial trucks can be very large and powerful and may be configured to be mounted with specialized equipment, such as in the case of refuse trucks, fire trucks, concrete mixers, and suction excavators. In American English, a commercial vehicle without a trailer or other articulation is formally a "straight truck" while one designed specifically to pull a trailer is not a truck but a "tractor".Modern trucks are largely powered by diesel engines, although small to medium size trucks with gasoline engines exist in the US, Canada, and Mexico. In the European Union, vehicles with a gross combination mass of up to 3.5 t (7,700 lb) are known as light commercial vehicles, and those over as large goods vehicles.