The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

Perhaps they had a car or truck and would drive him into town.

Bettendorf-style freight car truck displayed at the Illinois Railway Museum.

It can be fixed in place, as on a cargo truck, mounted on a swivel, as on a railway carriage / car or locomotive, or sprung as in the suspension of a caterpillar tracked vehicle, or as an assembly in the landing gear of an aircraft.

A version of the archbar truck was at one time also used on US Railway car # Freight cars | freight cars

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

The early 20th century saw additions in technical industry with the advent of car and truck manufacturing company Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek ( DAF ) and the subsequent shift towards electronics and engineering, with the traditional tobacco and textile industries waning and finally disappearing in the 1970s.

Import-substitution industries include textiles ; steel ( using scrap ); tires ; oil refining ; flour milling ; beverages ; tobacco ; simple consumer goods ; and car, truck, and bus assembly.

In the parking lot, Coleman allegedly backed his truck into Rushton, striking his knee and pulling him under the vehicle, before hitting another car.

When in 1942 it became clearer that the fighting would go on for a while, car and truck factories were switched to war work in a modest way, Opel taking up the production of aircraft parts and tanks.

In all, the truck rental cost about $ 250, the fertilizer less than $ 500, and the nitromethane $ 2, 780, with a cheap car being used as a getaway vehicle.

On land or over water the manned kite's moving anchor may be a car, truck, or boat ; parasailing just by kiting in heavy winds is highly discouraged.

Apart from its domestic brand SEAT, which is the major contributor to the automotive sector of the country, and Santana Motor, many suppliers and foreign car and truck makers-like Volkswagen, Nissan, Daimler Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Renault, GM / Opel, PSA Peugeot / Citroën, Iveco ,... etc.

Rail transport in Switzerland also include car and truck transportation service ( German: Autoverlad ).

Methods include placing Jersey barriers, stairs or other sturdy obstacles outside tall or politically sensitive buildings to prevent car and truck bombings.

A toy car is a representation of a real car, a toy truck is a representation of a real truck, and dolls are representations of people.

Turbos are commonly used on truck, car, train and construction equipment engines.

" Lorry " has a more uncertain origin, but probably has its roots in the railroad industry, where the word is known to have been used in 1838 to refer to a type of truck ( a freight car as in British usage, not a bogie as in the American ), specifically a large flat wagon.

In Australia and New Zealand, the term ute ( short for coupé utility ) is used to describe a pickup truck with an open cargo carrying space but a front similar to a passenger car, and which requires only a passenger car license to drive.

He shoots and wounds the second man, one of the black basketball players, and vows to " teach him a lesson " for trying to steal the truck his father gave him.

His first victim was his father who gave Frank a gas credit card and a truck to assist him in commuting to his part-time job.

Saturday, in the morning we dismissed the savage, and gave him a knife, a bracelet, and a ring ; he promised within a night or two to come again, and to bring with him some of the Massasoits, our neighbors, with such beavers ' skins as they had to truck with us.

Moreover, the relatively high clearance between the truck and the ground gave it the more lethal characteristics of an airburst.

They were equipped with all the newest technology including the Worthington Feedwater Heater, Superheater with front-end throttle, Cyclone Front End, thermic syphons, a lateral cushioning device in the front pair of drivers, both engines and the front wheels the trailing truck, as well as roller bearings on all axles, engine and tender, which gave them the reputation of " yard creepers ," because three men could move one on a level track with the cylinder cocks open.

The Northern type came at a time when nearly all the important design improvements had been proven, such as the superheater, mechanical stoker, outside valve gear, the Delta trailing truck and the one-piece bed frame of cast steel with integral cylinders, which did so much to advance the application of roller bearings on locomotives since it gave the strength and rigidity to hold them in correct alignment.

It was originally a Kenworth designed low cab-forward model but KW gave up on the truck since sales of the Peterbilt-badged version were greater.

A natural extension of the venerable 4-4-0, the four-wheel leading truck gave good stability at speed and allowed a longer boiler to be supported, while the lack of trailing wheels gave a high adhesive weight.

Corgan said that the plot of the video was inspired by a memory he had of an ice cream truck driver who, upon quitting his job, gave out his remaining stock of ice cream to the neighborhood children.

But Sarno and Mallin's lack of a truck haunted the pair during their second business venture together, and, eventually, they gave up on building houses.

The deal gave Speedway nine Road Ranger stores in Kentucky, and one in Ohio, in exchange for cash and a truck stop in the Chicago metropolitan area.

It gave the T100 a unique position within the truck ranks.

Although the axles and brakes were sourced from the Ford F-100 four wheel drive pickup truck, the front axle was located by radius arms ( from the frame near the rear of the transmission forward to the axle ) and a lateral track bar, allowing the use of coil springs that gave the Bronco a turning circle, long wheel travel, and an anti-dive geometry which was useful for snowplowing.

On April 28, 2008, Teamsters Canada, the official union of Purolator truck drivers, package handlers, couriers, and other workers, gave employees a 72 hour strike warning.

Ford gave up an executive position in heavy truck program management to become chairman of the finance committee on the Board of Directors, a non-executive corporate governance position.

The concept was soon improved to provide radial lateral movement by placing the pair of trailing wheels and their axle in a fabricated sub-frame or truck, usually with outside bearings as they gave the best lateral riding stability.

It also gave the brand new ability to choose between either the normal truck or the dune buggy ; both vehicles had different characteristics accordingly and added a new element to the game.

Later that year, Ultra Motorsports gave him a truck ride and he did very well, finishing no worse than sixth and earned a pole at Texas Motor Speedway.

) and, later, out of truck chassis ( 1950 – 1990, by Mercedes-Benz Argentina ), not specifically designed for the transportation of people, and were decorated with unique hand-painted drawings ( fileteado ) that gave each unit a distinct flavor.

However Gotti was a good sport about it and gave Tony a ride home in the truck, and rang the bell the whole ride home.

* Crane Carrier Company, a U. S. truck manufacturer

* Roman ( vehicle manufacturer ), a Romanian truck manufacturer

Vabis was a Swedish car and truck manufacturer, founded in 1891 as Vagnfabriks Aktiebolaget i Södertälje in municipality of Södertälje to produce railway cars.

In 2006, AB Volvo acquired from Nissan Motor Co Ltd, 13 % of the shares in the Japanese truck manufacturer UD Trucks former Nissan Diesel, and became a major shareholder.

Other major companies are ČEZ ( biggest company in central and eastern Europe ), Škoda works ( manufacturer of rail vehicles ), Panasonic ( electronics ), Tatra ( Heavy truck manufacturer ), Acelor Mittal ( Metallurgy ), Avast ( Software ), PPF ( largest Central European investment group ) and many others.

Soon after the end of World War I, Lancia offered a 22 ° V12, Fiat had a 60 ° model 520 ( 1921-2 ), British truck manufacturer Ensign announced a V12 that did not materialize, and in 1926, Daimler ( Britain ) offered the first of a full range of sleeve valve Double Sixes, 7, 136 cc, 3, 744 cc, 5, 296 cc and 6, 511 cc versions remaining available until 1937.

Spanish truck manufacturer Pegaso built the first production 120 ° V6 for the Z-207 mid size truck in 1955.

By unit sales, it is the thirteenth-largest car manufacturer and second-largest truck manufacturer in the world.

* DAC ( vehicle manufacturer ), a Romanian truck manufacturer

* Hayes Truck, a Canadian truck manufacturer

* CVG formerly Bostrom, manufacturer of truck seats for heavy-duty trucks such as Freightliner and Mack Trucks.

Buchanan was historically known as the headquarters for Clark Equipment Company, a manufacturer of truck axles, fork lift trucks, front-end loaders, and other heavy machinery.

Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi Willard Wright, it achieved its greatest prominence nationally in the 1910s and 1920s as home of the Republic Motor Truck Company, briefly the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world. In 1953 Alma became the first place that high-octane gas, 96 octane, was produced.

Other businesses include Savage, a manufacturer of agricultural processing equipment, Mid American Steel and Wire a supplier of steel wire for Oklahoma Steel and Wire, and J & I Manufacturing, a maker of truck beds.

This process has been supported by strategic acquisitions and dispositions ; one the most important was the take-over of the truck and bus division of the commercial vehicles manufacturer Büssing ( 1971 ), the disposition of the shares of the shipyard Deutsche Werft ( 1966 / 67 ) and the acquisition of the printing machine producer Faber & Schleicher as well as its fusion to MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG ( 1979 ).

In addition the group contracted a strategic partnership with the Chinese truck manufacturer Sinotruk.

White Motor Company was an American automobile and truck manufacturer from 1900 until 1980.

Iveco is now an Italian truck, bus, and diesel engine manufacturer, based in Turin.

In 1990, Iveco acquired 60 % of ENASA, a leading truck manufacturer and makers of Pegaso brand of commercial vehicles in Spain.