Patent ID: 8701812

Claim:
A towing tractor including a front wheel comprising: an operator's cockpit; a battery disposed forward of the operator's cockpit; a battery compartment provided between the operator's cockpit and the front wheel, the battery compartment accommodating the battery in the battery compartment; a hood covering the battery compartment; a first inclined surface formed on the hood and inclined downwardly toward the front of the towing tractor; a body in which the battery is provided; and a second inclined surface having a planar shape formed on the body, located forward of the first inclined surface and the front wheel and inclined downwardly toward the front of the towing tractor, the inclination angle of the second inclined surface is greater than the inclination angle of the first inclined surface, wherein the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface are spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the towing tractor with a space located above the front wheel and interposed between the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface, the second inclined surface is disposed lower than the first inclined surface, an imaginary line is defined by connecting the front edge of the first inclined surface and the rear edge of the second inclined surface, the inclination angle of the imaginary line is the same as or greater than the inclination angle of the first inclined surface, and the inclination angle of the second inclined surface is greater than the inclination angle of the imaginary line, wherein the towing tractor has left and right headlights located forward of the operator's cockpit, the second inclined surface is located on the fight side of the left headlight and on the left side of the right headlight, so that the planar shape of the second inclined surface extends between the right headlight and the left headlight, the front edge of the second inclined surface is disposed more forward than the range of the length of the paired left and right headlights as measured in the longitudinal direction of the towing tractor and lower than the top surface of the left and fight headlights, and the rear edge of the second inclined surface is disposed more rearward than the range of the length of the paired left and right headlights as measured in the longitudinal direction of the towing tractor.