americans call this a tractor
>>27604870Yes, it is called a tractor because it pulls. If the pushed, they probably probably would be called something else entirely. A simple case of Latin and English word etymology.
>>27604886James May you call it a lorry innit
>>27604895Yes, I call it a lorry, but the word tractor does make sense in the English language, albeit, it is a little bit strange to consider that what we call a tractor, was once known as a traction engine.In fact, I almost bought a traction engine last year (albeit a small ride-on one, which would cost 10k). Steam is a very expensive hobby.
>>27604870Not all Americans, it’s really a regional thing. Some call them Semis or 18 wheelers.
>>27604907Yeah I've never heard anyone call it a tractor everterms I have heard used>truck>big rig or just rig>semi>18 wheelerand occasionally they just refer to it by the make, Peterbilt or whatever
>>27604916I've heard tractor trailer being used
>>27604886Actually a tractor can push or pull.
>>27604907>>27604916what do they call it when it's detatched from a trailer, 10 wheeler?
>>27604870Depends on where you live in the US. Lots of different names. Think of the US like the EU with every state being it's own country.
>>27604942Yes.
>>27604916I'm the only one who calls them "lorry" in my redneck logistics company that houses a lot of them, and everyone looks at me like i swallow cum.
>>27604939Yes, but, what I am trying to get at is that the word tractor comes from trahere in Latin, which means "to pull".Also, volvo in Latin means "I crash".
>>27604886This is also a tractor.
>>27604971is that not a bulldozer?
>>27604971I clarified what I meant here.>>27604958
>>27604900"Tractor" was a brand name. It was a steam-powered (afik) traction-engine with actual tracks. I saw one for sale, maybe twenty years ago.
>>27604870Euros call this a tractor
>>27604974That's a backhoe
>>27604870Tractor trailer maybe.
Lol
>>27604916and why do yous also call this a truck?
>>27604930But almost never tractor, that's always farm equipment.>>27604942Bobtail, deadhead
>>27604870No the fuck we dont
>>27605163My father and grandfather call them road-tractors
>>27605163At auctions these are listed as “road tractors” and the farm tractors listed as tractors. In common use they are just called tractors.
>>27605167yes, on official DMV documents that thing is a "tractor cab". I drive one
If you go far back in time far enough they basically were tractors.
>>27605173Ok well that's retarded, why do I care?>>27605174Nope, never heard anyone here say tractor, you mean tractor trailer, two words never divorced from head other.You will only hear tractor trailer, and if they're in the industry, bobtail or deadhead. Trailer or not, it's tractor trailer
>>27604952Because you talk like someone who does
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA GET A LOAD OF THIS COPING FUCKING FAGGOT ZOOMER WHO GOT TOTALLY BTFO AND CAN'T ADMIT IT>>27605209it's a tractorit pulls a trailergo rope your stupid zoomer neck (1 inch circumference)
Posting in a thread filled with auto Toyota Avalon drivers.
>>27604958Volvos are for vulvas
>>27604946Cope. In every european country there is also accents and different names for different things. So think about states as regions of a country.
>>27604870post yours
>>27605209Wrong! Don’t drive for swift or Werner? You speak with the experience of a swift or with 6months on the road clearing 25k a year.
>>27605810The level of seething will be unimaginable. Yes this is a tractor the same as a 400hp freightliner sleeper cab pulling a 53’ trailer.
>>27605916motoculteur where Im from but I agreejust a very small tractor, but still a tractor
>>27604916>>semiMan why do americans call them semi trucks while referring to a pickup as a truck.you cant even do a minigun comparison because lorries are as big as it gets on the roads.>>27604985It unironically is.IIRC german army wanted a tractor that could do highįay speeds and merc made unimog.Wonder how cursed it would be if I were to body swap a w208 on it.
>>27606439>Man why do americans call them semi trucks while referring to a pickup as a truck.It comes from the trailer, which is a "semi-trailer" because it only has wheels at one end and needs the other end to be supported by the tractor.
>>27604971that's a backhoe, ive heard more people call it an excavator or claw than a tractor
Newsflash reality including language is fluid
get your motor runningHEAD UP ON THE HIGHWAY
>>27606646For me, it's she.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3a0gixfwI
>>27606646>>27606975BIG NIGS
>>27604870Picrel is a tractor. >>27606439>Man why do americans call them semi trucks while referring to a pickup as a truck.Because it pulls a semi trailer. It is the prime mover pulling the semi trailer in a tractor configuration. >>27604916I do see it used but it's more of a technical/industry term than normal parlance. Tractor trailer is more common along with the ones you listed.
>>27606646Love this game. The maximum speed that an in-game truck going in reverse can attain is 12.3 Undecillion miles per hour.
>>27605784>there is also accentsBahston accent, Noo Yawk accent, Midwest accent, Tayxus ayccent, etc. We all agree on one thing: Euro cunt, you cunt.
>>27604870She thinks my tractor sexy
Is trucking worth it or is it slave labor? I hear horror stories but I might get a cdl in a few months.
>>27608333at least your not sitting in a wagie cage, dealing with HR roasties and other assorted office politics.
>>27608333your dispatcher will look like the woman in >>27608518
Americans, why do you call this a semi truck? In what way is it half a truck?Why not call it like glorious German: LKW (Lastktaftwagen)
>>27608333There are laws that are meant to be limit how many hours you drive in a day and how many hours you drive in a week but from what I hear from my trucker friends they regularly find ways to make you work past those hours.
>>27606596It's just a tractor with a boom and blade on it.
>>27604900language is so fascinating
>>27605298Nope, tractors are like farm dudes, it's a semi or a tractor trailerIf I told someone I drove tractors, they'd think farmer>>27605915Worse, PAM
>>27609131because frenchies' name is betterTransport International Routierit just rolls of the tongue nicely and sounds like it means buisness
>>27604971Yes my 5 year old also calls those tractors.They are backhoe loaders. Usually just shortened to backhoe.>>27605073Trucks carry things. Like a hand truck or trucks on trains sometimes called wheel sets.>>27604870Traction unit.
>>27609131To differentiate it from straight trucks and to convey that it's made up of a semi tractor and a semi trailer.The German term LKW likewise also refers to all trucks. That combination in particular is called a Sattelzug.
>>27609131Artic (articulated lorry) and ridged for the straight trucks
>>27604985no its a universal motorized device.
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>>27605810Nice Inter, is it an xl?
>>27604870americans call this a "woman"
>>27604870Actually, we'd call that a Tractor-Trailer Combination vehicle.
>>27605784>state>noun>2.. a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government. "Germany, Italy, and other European states"
>>27606439A pickup was originally "pickup and delivery truck". They were smaller vehicles used in bustling cities to deliver goods and produce from the rail roads and docks to businesses.From Mirriam-Webster:trucknoun ˈtrək 1: a wheeled vehicle for moving heavy articles: such asa: a strong horse-drawn or automotive vehicle (such as a pickup) for haulingb: an automotive vehicle with a short chassis equipped with a swivel for attaching a trailer and used especially for the highway hauling of freightalso : a truck with attached trailerc: a small barrow consisting of a rectangular frame having at one end a pair of handles and at the other end a pair of small heavy wheels and a projecting edge to slide under a load called also hand truckd: a small heavy rectangular frame supported on four wheels for moving heavy objectse: a small flat-topped car pushed or pulled by handf: a shelved stand mounted on castersPic is also a truck.
Station Wagon- The American Heritage Dictionary says a station wagon is “an automobile with one or more rows of seats behind the driver and no trunk but a compartment with plenty of space you can load through a tailgate.”You use it to go tailgating. It was the minivan and the SUV of its day.The “station” in the station wagon refers to a train station. The first powered station wagons were custom-built Model T, a car with enough space in the rear to bring several people and their luggage from the train station to their country estate…and back again.While we started calling them station wagons, the British referred to them, and still do, as an estate car, the Australians call them simply wagons.The modern design of a station wagon reached its peak in the 1960s with compact, mid-size and full-size wagons. The back door could be up or down or open to the side.After the gasoline crisis of the 1970s, the station wagon began to lose popularity, the minivan design was more practical, and then came the SUV.
>>27611175early Station Wagon
>>27605916kek seething mad. Still no tractor posted I see
>>27611175Now explain why germans call them "Kombi"
>>27611043no, 885A
>>27611148>these United StatesAlso>Virginians never dieAlso it’s still a tractor. Fill in the blank>I have take my tractor-trailer to Charlottesville and am going to drop the trailer at the dock and drive my ____ over to peaceful protest site.
>>27611277I'm rather impressed at how much power the krauts cranked out of their Internationals compared to the yanks.
>>27611585>the krautsthis one's from bongland actually
>>27604971That's not a tractor, that's a backhoe-loader. It's not set up to pull loads.
>>27604870because it is. stupid euroshit
