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Semitrailer

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semitrailer
a type of trailer or articulated lorry that has wheels only at the rear, the front end being supported by the towing vehicle

semitrailer [¦sem·i′trāl·ər]
(engineering)
A cargo-carrying piece of equipment that has one or two axles at the rear; the load is carried on these axles and on the fifth wheel of the tractor that supplies motive power to the semitrailer.

Semitrailer 

a non-self-propelled transport vehicle with closed body or with a platform with hinged sideboards. The framework of a semitrailer is supported in front by the hitch bar of a truck tractor and in the rear by one or two axles with wheels. The hitch bar permits a swinging motion of the semitrailer both on the longitudinal and transverse axes.



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The standard length of this type of semitrailer is doubled with the addition of the second deck and can carry up to ten average sedan cars.
From The Santa Fe New Mexican September 6, 1959: A semitrailer truck swerved across the center stripe to miss crumbling places in the pavement and roared up a hill west of Santa Rosa.
Landeros was driving a 2005 Freightliner with 53-foot-long semitrailer.
 
 
 
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