Used Trucks

The word ‘trucks’ can cover a wide variety of vehicles, with an equally wide variety of uses and specialisations. Trucks vary in size and power, but they tend to share the same general structure: a cab, a chassis, a cargo hold, an engine and a drive train. The cab is the part of a truck where the driver sits, and so contains the apparatus necessary to operate the vehicle; the steering wheel, the clutch and so on. There are two main types of cab, but almost all trucks in Europe and the UK use the Cab-Over-Engine (COE) configuration, whereby the driver is situated above the front axle and the engine.

Used Trucks

Most used trucks which are of medium size and upwards utilise four-stroke diesel engines, supplemented by a turbocharger and an intercooler or charge air cooler, both of which escalate the vehicle’s power by increasing the density of the air entering the engine. Smaller used trucks will most often use an automatic transmission, or a manual transmission with a synchromesh; a device which utilises a cone clutch to bring the teeth into synchronisation. Larger trucks tend to rely on manual transmissions, sometimes with synchronisers, and sometimes without.

Trucks for sale

Trucks for sale today consist of a steel, or steel/aluminium, frame that is made up of two C-shaped rails held together by transverse beams. These frameworks are called ladder frames due to their resemblance to a ladder. The rails consist of a long vertical part, or two if boxed, and two shorter horizontal flanges. The height of the vertical portion balances against vertical flex when weight is applied to the top of the frame, an effect known as beam resistance.

Lorry

The word "truck" probably comes from the Greek "trochos, or wheel. In North America, there were certain types of large wheels called trucks. After internal combustion engine driven trucks came into use, they were called "motor trucks", possibly to avoid confusion with the railway use of the word truck.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, lorry is used instead of truck, but only for medium and heavy vehicle types, for example a van or an off-road four-wheel drive vehicle, such as a Jeep, may rarely be called a truck in the United States, but would never be considered a lorry in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The same applies to Heavy Goods Vehicles which are actually synonymous with lorries.