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Glossary
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- bear: law enforcement
officer, particularly at the state (USA) or province level
- backdoor : a slower truck that maintains the rear of
a convoy/train. Keeps an eye out for bears from behind.
- belt highway (USA) : circular route / ring road (GB)
- belly dump (USA) : A trailer that discharges its load
from the bottom, usually gravel
- big wheel man : a trucker
- black and white: law enforcement officer, particularly at
the city level (named for the generally black and white color
scheme of their vehicles)
- blow-out : burst tire
- bobtail / riding bobtail / unit only / solo : driving
a tractor
unit without a trailer
- bonded warehouse :
a warehouse controlled by customs
- bonnet (GB) : hood (USA)
- bowser : small tanker truck used for refuelling plant
and machinery
- box : any container, often refers to an ISO container
- B-road (GB) : secondary highway (some B-roads are impassable
for heavy vehicles)
- B-train :
tractor with two semi-trailers
- bull bar / roo bar (AUS) : (usually chrome) bars on
the front of a truck
- bulk : loose cargo
(not packaged)
- bulkhead : firewall
- Bump the dock (USA) : To deliver a load; complete the
carriage contract.
- bunkering : refuelling (nautical term)
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- cab : cabin of a truck
- cabover (USA) : A style of tractor with a flat front
due to the cab over the engine. See normal control.
- cabotage : haulage within one country by a foreigner
- cabover / forward control : vehicle with a cab built
over the engine rather than behind it
- camper :
motorhome
- cannonballing / to cannonball : over-correction of steering
(from "Cannonball",
a Canadian TV series in 1958/9 where the actors who played
truckers would jerk the steering wheel left and right even
though the following scene would show a truck rolling along
in a straight line)
- car transporter : truck for carrying cars
- caravan : travel trailer
- carriage forward : carriage paid by the recipient
- carriage paid : carriage paid by the sender
- carriageway (GB) : roadway
- carriers : transport company
- cattle truck : livestock truck
- CB : Citizens' band radio
- CB'er : a Citizens' band radio user
- central reservation (GB) :
median strip (USA)
- Chinese : a three (or four ?) axle truck with two
steering front axles
- chock-rail : a small rave along the edges of a flatbed
truck or trailer
- CMR : consignment note for European haulage
- coffee shop : a cafeteria
- consignee : the recipient
- consigner : the sender
- consignment note : waybill
- container : usually refers to an ISO container
- continental driver (GB) : trucker who does international
journeys
- conventional / normal control : a truck with the cab
behind the engine compartment
- convoy : two or more vehicles running together
- cowboy (GB) : someone who doesn't take his job seriously
- cowboy outfit (GB) : a rogue haulage company
- crawler : a slow moving vehicle
- crawler gear : the lowest gear in a gearbox (below 1st
gear)
- crawler lane : a lane reserved for slow vehicles
- C-train:
similar to an A-train,
tractor with one semi-trailer and one full trailer
- cwt. / hundredweight : 112 lbs
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