When it comes to trucks, many people think of large trucks speeding down the highway, but there are numerous types of trucks, each with its own definition and purpose. In fact, the trucks on the market at present are roughly divided into flat cars, steep railcars, vans, container cars, refrigerated cars, special vehicles, did not think that there are so many kinds of trucks, then Top semi trailer manufacturers Xiaobian will show you the real appearance and function of these trucks. 1. Van Van, also called box truck, is the kind of iron door, the whole wrapped tightly iron driver, mainly used for completely sealed transport of a variety of goods. Of course, this van transport costs more. Of course, the van has the advantages of flexibility, convenient operation, efficient work, large transportation volume, safety and reliability. According to the appearance, the van is divided into single bridge van, double bridge van, flat head van, and pointed head van. Single bridge van, commonly carrying 2-5 tons, is currently the most extensive short-distance transport vehicle on the market, such as a lot of cargo drivers use this car, easy to move goods in the city. Two-axle vans, also known as eight-wheelers, can carry extra weight. Flathead and pointed van, According to the classification of the van according to its appearance, it can be divided into: single bridge van, double bridge van, flat head van and pointed head van. Single bridge van vehicle weight is relatively tiny, more than 2-5 tons of car, typically behind the 4 wheels. Double bridge load is relatively large, is also normally mentioned after eight wheels, double bridge drive. In fact, there is no difference in performance between flat-ended and pointed van. The main difference is appearance and safety. Flat-ended vans are more used in China and Europe, and pointed van is more used in the United States. 2. Flatbed car Flat car is also called low hurdle car, flat car is based on the shape of the board and pure plate and tall and low plate two, according to the height of the board, width and narrowness is divided into ordinary plate, ultra-low plate, ultra-low plate, ultra-wide plate, which belongs to special vehicles. Features: three directions open the car box, convenient loading and unloading operations, commonly used in some of the use of forklift crane cargo; use rain cloth to wrap the goods to prevent rain and damaging the goods; usually ropes or special tools are used to fix the goods. 3. Steep hurdle car Steep hurdle car is a type of car between low hurdle car and van, although it is relatively low hurdle more closed, but still needs rain cloth protection, divided into half closed and completely closed two. 4. Container car Container truck, mainly used for cross-border freight. In the case of container transhipment, goods can be loaded directly at the consignor's warehouse and unloaded at the consignee's warehouse without taking the goods out of the box for reloading. Transit does not need to move the goods in the box, and can be directly changed. can be quick loading and unloading, and can be directly and conveniently from one means of transport to another means of transport, convenient and quick, and throughput is extremely large. 5. Refrigerated truck The refrigerated truck, is the kind of tiny and medium-sized van we normally see on the road used to transport fresh vegetables, is equipped with refrigeration unit refrigeration device and polyurethane insulated car refrigerated special transport vehicles, commonly used for the transport of frozen food (refrigerated truck), dairy products (milk transport truck), vegetables and fruits (fresh cargo transport truck), vaccine drugs (vaccine transport truck), etc. 6. Tractor tractor, also known as the Big MAC, in front of the driving ability of the front called tractor, behind no traction driving ability of the car called trailer, trailer is towed away by the tractor. There are two kinds of connection between tractor and trailer: the first is the front of the trailer usually on the traction saddle above the rear section of the tractor, the bridge behind the tractor to bear a part of the weight of the trailer, which is half hanging; the second is that the front end of the trailer is connected to the rear end of the tractor. The tractor only provides forward pulling force, dragging the trailer away, but does not bear the downward weight of the trailer. This is a full hanging. 7. Trailer A trailer is a vehicle that is pulled by an automobile and has no power drive itself. A combination of a vehicle (truck, tractor, or forklift) and one or more trailers. The truck and the traction car are the driving car section of the automobile train, called the main car; a section of a driven car pulled by the main car is called a trailer. Trailers are divided into full trailers and semi-trailers according to the connection mode between trailers and traction cars. A trailer drawn by a tractor and with all its mass borne by itself; a trailer pulled by a tractor and with some of its mass borne by the tractor.