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A truck or lorry (either term is correct and both have historical significance however truck is used more frequently) is a motor vehicle designed to transport freight by road. Commercial trucks come in many varied formats and sizes to suit the cargo they carry. Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM) is a term used to measure their size and generally varied from 4.0tonne to over 50tonne. Trucks can be very large and powerful, and may be configured to mount specialized equipment, such as in the case of fire trucks and concrete mixers and suction excavators. Modern trucks are powered by either of combustion gasoline or diesel engines, with the latter dominant in commercial applications and industrialisation have led to the commercial distribution of consumption.
They come in with many different axle configurations, 4x2, 6x2, 6x4, 8x4 are most common.
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The Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula is a mathematical formula used by truck drivers and United States Department of Transportation (DOT) officials to determine the appropriate maximum gross weight for a commercial motor vehicle based on axle spacing. The formula is part of federal weight and size regulations regarding interstate commercial traffic (intrastate traffic is subject to state limits). The formula is necessary to prevent heavy vehicles from damaging roads and bridges. Commercial motor vehicles are most often tractor-trailers or buses, but the formula is of most interest to truck drivers due to the heavy loads their vehicles often carry. Early 20th century weight limits were enacted to protect dirt and gravel roads from damage caused by the solid wheels of heavy trucks. As time progressed, truck weight limits focused primarily on gross weight limits (which had no prescribed limits on length). By 1974, bridges received special protection from increasing truck weight limits. The bridge formula law was enacted by the U.S. Congress to limit the weight-to-length ratio of heavy trucks, and to protect roads and bridges from the damage caused by the concentrated weight of shorter trucks. The formula effectively lowers the legal weight limit for shorter trucks, preventing them from causing premature deterioration of bridges and highway infrastructure. Compliance with the law is checked when vehicles pass through a weigh station, often located at the borders between states.
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Iveco, an acronym for Industrial Vehicle Corporation, originally an alliance of European commercial vehicle manufacturers such as Fiat (including OM and Lancia Veicoli Speciali), Unic and Magirus. Iveco is now an Italian truck, bus, and diesel engine manufacturer, based in Turin. The firm is a subsidiary of Fiat Industrial, having been demerged from the Fiat Group at the start of 2011, and produces around 200,000 commercial vehicles and 460,000 diesel engines annually, and for the year ended 2007 the company had €11,196 million in sales (revenues).
Today the company is a significant player in the medium-duty trucks and engine markets, and is near the top for sales of passenger transport and 3.5 ton light vehicles.
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WikiProject Trucks — Wikiprojet Buses — Wikiprojet Transports
- ...that Route 17 (pictured) in New Jersey was renumbered from Route 2 in 1942 to match New York State Route 17 and provide a single number for military caravans during World War II?
- ...that Wurzbach Parkway, an unnumbered freeway in San Antonio, Texas, does not connect directly to the city's other freeways?
- ...that Pennsylvania Route 163 never strays more than 250 feet (76 m) from the Mason–Dixon Line?
- ... that State Highway 7 in the US state of Minnesota follows the Minnesota River National Scenic Byway along Lac qui Parle by the state line?
- ...that critic H. L. Mencken panned the proposed renaming of Wilkens Avenue in Baltimore as Sunset Boulevard in 1932?
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Ivo Samkalden of Amsterdam is in the polder Bijlmermeer for the ceremonial "first stone" of the construction of 5000 new houses. Other scenes include a recently built viaduct, an old farmhouse, the first flat and a model of the future building.
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