Truck (disambiguation)
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A truck
is a vehicle for carrying goods and materials.
Truck or trucks may also refer to:
Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration, with the smallest being mechanically similar to an automobile...
is a vehicle for carrying goods and materials.
Truck or trucks may also refer to:
- Truck (band)Truck (band)Truck was a pop group from Malaysia, consisting of three members from another Malaysian band The October Cherries. The members were Diaz and two brothers by the surname of Shotam...
, a Malaysian pop group - Trucks (band)Trucks (band)Trucks were a British/Norwegian pop punk band, whose most popular release was the 2002 novelty single, "It's Just Porn Mum". The single was a Top 5 hit in Norway, and peaked at #35 in the UK Singles Chart.-Line-up:*Olav Iversen, Vocals/Guitar...
, a British pop-punk band - Truck FestivalTruck FestivalTruck Festival is an annual independent music festival in Oxfordshire, England. It was started in 1998 by the Bennett family , who decided that mainstream festivals such as Glastonbury had become too commercial and predictable. It is held in July at Hill Farm in Steventon, near Abingdon...
and Truck RecordsTruck RecordsTruck Records was an independent record label based in Oxford, England. It grew out of the Truck Festival, held annually in Steventon, a small village near Oxford...
, a British music festival and associated record label - Trucks (short story)Trucks (short story)"Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.-Setting:"Trucks" takes place in a truck-stop in the United States...
, a short story by Stephen King - Trucks (film)Trucks (film)Trucks is a 1997 Canadian and American television thriller film directed by Chris Thomson. It is a remake of the 1986 Action/Horror film Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive.-Plot:...
, a 1997 TV film - Truck (book)Truck (book)Truck is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Donald Crews. It is notable for telling a story without using any humans or narration. It consists entirely of a single semi-trailer truck traveling through urban environments. It is the second of Donald Crews' books to focus around...
, a children's picture book by Donald Crews - Trucks!Trucks!Trucks! is an American television program that airs weekends as a part of Spike TV‘s Powerblock. It is hosted by Kevin Neils Tetz and Ryan Shand...
, television program - Truck (rigging)Truck (rigging)A truck is a nautical term for a wooden ball, disk, or bun-shaped cap at the top of a mast, with holes in it through which flag halyards are passed. Trucks are also used on wooden flagpoles, to prevent them from splitting....
, a wooden ball, disk, or bun-shaped cap at the top of a mast - Trucks or trocoTrocoTrucco is an Italian and later English lawn game played with heavy balls, large-headed cues called tacks, rings , and sometimes an upright pin . The game was popular from at least the 17th century to the early 20th century...
, a lawn game - Trucks, part of a skateboard
- BogieBogieA bogie is a wheeled wagon or trolley. In mechanics terms, a bogie is a chassis or framework carrying wheels, attached to a vehicle. It can be fixed in place, as on a cargo truck, mounted on a swivel, as on a railway carriage/car or locomotive, or sprung as in the suspension of a caterpillar...
s, called "trucks" in North American railroading - Truck ActsTruck ActsTruck Acts is the name given to legislation that outlaws truck systems, which are also known as "company store" systems, or debt bondage. Such laws date back in Britain to the 15th century but have also been implemented in other countries.-History:...
, a legal act outlawing truck systemTruck systemA truck system is an arrangement in which employees are paid in commodities or some currency substitute , rather than with standard money. This limits employees' ability to choose how to spend their earnings—generally to the benefit of the employer...
s - Truk LagoonTruk LagoonTruk Lagoon, also known as Chuuk, is a sheltered body of water in the central Pacific. North of New Guinea, it is located mid-ocean at 7 degrees North latitude. The atoll consists of a protective reef, around, enclosing a natural harbour 79 by 50 kilometres , with an area of . It has a land...
, a type of boat - Truck farming, the cultivation of vegetable crops for transport to local markets
- "Truckin'Truckin'"Truckin'" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album American Beauty. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure....
", a Grateful Dead Song, released in 1970 - Truck systemTruck systemA truck system is an arrangement in which employees are paid in commodities or some currency substitute , rather than with standard money. This limits employees' ability to choose how to spend their earnings—generally to the benefit of the employer...
, the system of paying wages in goods instead of money - "Space Truckin'Space Truckin'"Space Truckin" is a song by British hard rock band Deep Purple. It is the seventh and final track on the Machine Head album. Its lyrics talk of space travel and it showcases the vocal abilities of singer Ian Gillan and powerful drumming of Ian Paice...
", a Deep Purple Song, released in 1972 - The TruckThe TruckThe Truck is a 1980 Bulgarian drama film directed by Christo Christov. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Grigor Vachkov - Dedleto* Lilyana Kovacheva - Milena* Veselin Vulkov - Shteryo* Stefan Dimitrov - Doktorat...
, a 1980 Bulgarian film
See also
- Semi-trailer truckSemi-trailer truckA semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or articulated truck or articulated lorry, is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine , and a semi-trailer A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) articulated truck...
, articulated (a tractor pulls an unpowered trailer), trailer usually has 4 sides and a roof - Dump truckDump truckA dump truck is a truck used for transporting loose material 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...
, used to carry loose material, the 4-sided bed can be tilted to empty its contents - Box truckBox truckA 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.-Road vehicles:...
, non-articulated, the bed of the truck has 4 sides and a roof - Flatbed truckFlatbed truckA flatbed truck 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...
, the bed of the truck is absolutely flat, with no sides or roof - Pickup truckPickup truckA pickup truck is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area .-Definition:...
, two axles, non-articulated, and the bed has sides - Forklift truckForklift truckA forklift is a powered industrial truck used to lift and transport materials. The modern forklift was developed in the 1920s by various companies including the transmission manufacturing company Clark and the hoist company Yale & Towne Manufacturing...
used to lift large objects - Hand truckHand truckA hand truck, also known as a Hannibal lectern, two wheeler, stack truck, dolly, trolley, trolley truck, sack barrow, sack truck, or bag barrow, is an L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the...
, also a sack truck in the United Kingdom