Air conditioning helps a driver to stay focussed as excessive heat can lead to dehydration and discomfort within the vehicle’s cabin – something that’s important for long-distance drivers to avoid as driving dehydrated is like driving with alcohol in your…
Truck-mounted crane and truck loader crane refer to a truck which has a crane either at the rear or just behind that cab which is used to load and unload goods from the truck’s deck. It’s sometimes called a Hiab…
A side loader is a self-loading trailer, typically skeletal, with two hydraulic lifting cranes to lift a container onto it. It can be operated by the driver using controls on the side of the trailer or a remote control. Sideloaders…
Power take-off or PTO is a way of diverting power from the engine of a truck to an attachment, a trailer or a separate machine. On a truck, these are commonly used to: Raise a dump truck’s trailer or body…
Trucks range from small, light ones that you can drive with a car licence up to the largest road trains. In smaller trucks, the gearboxes are similar to what you would find in a car (albeit slightly more heavy-duty): they’ll…
To drive a bus in Australia you need a medium rigid (MR) or heavy rigid (HR) licence, there’s no such thing as a ‘bus licence’. The MR licence covers buses with a gross vehicle mass of more than eight tonnes…
A car carrier or car transporter is designed specifically to carry light vehicles (cars, utes and light trucks). While they are usually a semitrailer pulled by a prime mover, there are shorter rigid trucks with car transporter trailer. The most…
