Truck (disambiguation)
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A truck is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. It may also mean:
- A masthead truck, a part of masts and flagpoles
Types of vehicles:
- A truck
- A pickup truck
- A light truck, which has a small payload capacity and may transport passengers
- A forklift truck
- A railroad truck or bogie, a wheeled assembly that supports railroad cars
- A "railway truck" is a railroad freight car
- A hand truck, which is a small handcart
- A library truck or library trolley, a wheeled set of bookshelves used to move books in a library
- A skateboard truck is a wheel assembly used on a skateboard
- "Truck" is a common word for an SUV even though SUVs look more like station wagons. The reason for this is that many SUVs were built on truck-like platforms. It is being used as a misnomer even for front-wheel drive SUVs such as the Ford Escape and Honda Element, which are more like cars.
In culture:
- Truck (band), a 70's pop group from Malaysia
- Trucks (band), a rock band
- Trucks (short story), a short story by Stephen King
- Trucks (film), a movie based on the Stephen King short story
- Trucks!, a television program on Spike TV
- Truck Festival, a music festival in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Truck Records, a record label
As a quality
- The British Truck Acts, Acts of Parliament which forbade the payment of wages "in truck" or in tokens rather than cash
- Truk Lagoon
- Truck farm, one that grows market-garden produce (fruit and vegetables)