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Teamster driving a team of six horses at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany Lydia Vargo and Teamster with delivery wagon in Toledo, Ohio c. 1920. A teamster in American English is a truck driver; a person who drives teams of draft animals; or a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a labor union.
A wagonette or waggonette, meaning little wagon, is a four-wheeled open carriage drawn by one or two horses. It has a front seat for the driver, and passengers enter from the rear and sit face to face on longitudinal bench seats. Originating around the 1840s, the body is mounted on four sets of springs. [1]: 170
A common form found throughout Europe is the ladder wagon , a large wagon the sides of which often consisted of ladders strapped in place to hold in hay or grain, though these could be removed to serve other needs. [4] A common type of farm wagon particular to North America is the buckboard.
Auto rickshaw in Sri Lanka. An auto rickshaw is a motorized version of the pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw.Most have three wheels and do not tilt. They are known by many other terms in various countries, including 3wheel, Adaidaita Sahu, Keke-napep, Maruwa, auto, baby taxi, bajaj, bao-bao, chand gari, CNG, easy bike, jonnybee, lapa, lapa-lapa, mototaxi, pigeon, pragya, tuk-tuk, tukxi, tum ...
An Urdu language word meaning egg, for the pure-white uniform of traffic police in urban Pakistani areas like Karachi. Askar/Askari A Somali term meaning “soldier” which is often used by Somali immigrants to the United Kingdom to refer to police. It is commonly used by rappers in UK drill. Aynasız
"Humsafar" is an Urdu word meaning "co-passenger" The first service was inaugurated on 16 December 2016 between Gorakhpur and Anand Vihar Terminal, New Delhi. The fares of Humsafar Express at the time of launch are around 15–20% higher compared to normal AC-3 tier and Sleeper class fares.
A bullock cart driver is known as a bajingan in Indonesian. In Javanese, the term bajingan holds dual meanings. In Javanese, the term bajingan holds dual meanings. While commonly used as a colloquial term for a scoundrel or rogue, it also denotes an oxcart coachman.
"Riding shotgun" was a phrase used to describe the bodyguard who rides alongside a stagecoach driver, typically armed with a break-action shotgun, called a coach gun, to ward off bandits or hostile Native Americans. In modern use, it refers to the practice of sitting alongside the driver in a moving vehicle. The coining of this phrase dates to ...