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  2. Semi-trailer truck - Wikipedia

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    Conventional style cab tractor A cab-over semi-tractor Tractor with an end-dump trailer A FAW semi-trailer truck in China A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms – see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight. A semi-trailer attaches to the tractor with a type of hitch called a fifth wheel. Other terms There are a ...

  3. Tractor unit - Wikipedia

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    Peterbilt 386 sleeper-cab–style commercial 6×4 tractor unit. A tractor unit, also known as a truck unit, lorry unit, power unit, prime mover, ten-wheeler, semi-tractor, semi-truck, semi-lorry, tractor cab, truck cab, lorry cab, big rig tractor, big rig truck or big rig lorry or simply a tractor, truck, lorry, semi, big rig or rig, is a characteristically heavy-duty towing engine that ...

  4. Big Rig (film) - Wikipedia

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    Big Rig is a 2007 documentary film by Doug Pray about long-haul truck drivers. The film consists of a series of interviews with different drivers, focusing on both their personal life stories and also the life and culture of truck drivers in the United States.

  5. Big Rig (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A big rig or semi-trailer truck is an articulated vehicle that consists of a towing engine. It may also refer to: Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, a 2003 video game; Big Rig, a 2008 documentary film; Big Rig (band), a band; Ron "Big Rig" Michaels, a disc jockey at WXTB in Tampa

  6. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing - Wikipedia

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    A big rig climbing a steep mountain. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a racing video game. [2] [3] Although the game's packaging states the objective as racing over US truck routes to be the first to deliver cargo and avoid arrest by the police, the game features no law enforcement.

  7. Glossary of the American trucking industry - Wikipedia

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    Big rig See semi-truck. Big truck See semi-truck. Bobtail A tractor without a trailer. [8] In verb form, this also refers to operating a truck without a trailer. [30] A straight truck or box truck Cab over

  8. Big Rig Bounty Hunters - Wikipedia

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    Big Rig Bounty Hunters is an American reality TV program, which aired from February 14, 2013, to June 30, 2014, on the History Channel.The series followed bounty hunters who search for and retrieve lost, stolen, or otherwise missing tractor-trailer rigs, and, in some cases, towed vehicles and cargo on trailers.

  9. List of truck manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    ACMAT (); Berliet (France); Chenard-Walcker (France); Citroën (France); De Dion-Bouton (France); Delahaye (France); FAR Trucks (France); Hotchkiss (France ...