0 a large truck in two parts, one in the front for the driver and one behind where goods are carried. The connection between the two parts can bend in order to help the vehicle turn corners. -- 重型货车
For example, a 25 ft three-axle dump truck would have a gross weight limit of, instead of, which is the standard weight limit for 63 ft five-axle tractor-trailer.
After the first accident occurred at 3:10 a.m., a second tractor-trailer, who had stopped because of the tanker, rolled in reverse, jackknifing across the road and hitting a car.
Major height mismatches can cause highly lethal underride collisions, in which a smaller vehicle, such as a passenger sedan, slides under a larger vehicle, such as a tractor-trailer.
There, a tractor-trailer was blown off an overpass (falling 20 ft) and destroyed, while two other trucks were knocked over on their sides.
The drivers of the car and the tractor-trailer that jackknifed were not hurt.
I was a junior design engineer and worked with people designing truck interiors - seats, dashes and all the integral parts of the interior of tractor-trailer rigs.
At approximately 3:20 pm, the driver of the northbound tractor-trailer crossed the center line and struck the school bus.
In 2002, the automobile in which she was traveling was rammed by a tractor-trailer, breaking her neck, back and ribs.