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I ate a biiiiiiig bowl of spaghetti before going to work at the factory today and I got red sauce all over my hands and face but I didn’t have a napkin to clean it off so I just kind of clocked in and hoped nobody would notice. Thankfully, the only other workers who bothered to show up were under the influence and just thought it was blood.
My oldest coworker, let’s call him Brian for the sake of the story, was the first to mention the sauce. He said something along the lines of, “wha…. man that look like a period juice man….” in between labored breaths.
I wasn’t sure what he meant by this, partially because I have never heard of a “period” before and partially because Brian was facing the wrong direction when he said that to me.
The next of my hardworking peers to mention the sauce was a middle aged lady, let’s call her Pippy (pronounced pee-pee), who noticed about three hours into our shift. She was right in the middle of handling radioactive materials when we met eyes. Now that I’m sitting here thinking about it, I’m realizing in all my 18 months here I had never made eye contact with her before.
She has two lazy eyes and one of them is glass but she’ll never say which one, something which shouldn’t necessarily be notable but there is an element of terror looking into an eye which might not be looking back.
So she’s looking at me and I’m looking back at her, rapidly darting back and forth between eyes trying to figure out which one is real while she’s formulating her thought (she doesn’t seem to have many of these so it was taking a while to process).
Then she opens her mouth and says, “wabbbamamganoboloilililowabbawabbaPAH” and throws something at my face. I clutched my cheek and felt some kind of slimy substance. Panic began to set in. She smiled at me with and a little bit of copenhagen wintergreen juice dribbled out from the gaps in her teeth. Running to the bathroom in a state that can only be described as pure hysteria, I turned a corner a little too fast and ran right into my boss, knocking him on to the recently waxed concrete floor below. He must have slid for about ten feet before coming to a stop.
“You look like a dookie,” he says while looking at me with his deeply sad piercing blue eyes.
Needless to say, I ran home so fast I left my car in the parking lot and had to run all the way back to work to retrieve it before driving home safely at exactly the speed limit the entire way. I am NEVER eating spaghetti for breakfast again.
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It’s always risky having spaghetti for breakfast!
I live in NY and would call it an 18 wheeler
i live in wyoming we do in fact call them Not Enough Data
I’ve never heard them be called rigid trucks, often times I hear those types of trucks being called straight trucks. Only exception is if they call it the type of truck it is, like a box truck, dump truck, garbage truck, etc.
Wow, this guy might know a little bit about trucking!
In alot of the the south those "Full Trucks" are called Box Trucks, for somewhat obvious reasons
Semi Truck always sounded weird to me. I just call em "Big Rigs".
I drove for Leprosy trucking.
In Britain we call them artics (short for articulated).
Full truck or Straight Truck… some places call them "Step Vans" even though I think of StepVans' as like the big UPS ones or Bread Delivery trucks.
As a prairie Canadian they are officially known as tractor trailers however most people refer to them as a semi (pronounced sem-e not sem-i as you do). They are also fairly often referred to as 18 wheeler's as well. On the farm I work on we will often just call them trucks as shorthand (so long as we all know we are referring to the semi truck and not a pickup or referring to both the semi and pickup at the same time). Around here we call "full trucks" straight or rigid frame trucks. Often they are referred to by either their number of rear axles or the size of the truck (ex. 2 ton, 3 ton, tandem, tridem, etc.).
what about panel truck?
It gets even more confusing when you think about "full trucks", because they're also widely known as straight trucks and even box trucks. However dependent on which kind of freight they haul, one would be more appropriate than the other dependent on the truck's allowable gross vehicle weight.
Source; I drive a "Straight truck" for a living, which is a box truck too, I would not call a Penske or U-Haul box truck a straight truck in regards to who is who in the expedite industry, since our roles are supposed to be very different from one another. Keyword, supposed to be because although they lack sleeper cabs, many people still do use them over the road!
Semi-articulated truck, vs. a fully articulated truck where the rear axles steer to keep the trailer's wheel set on the same turning track as the tractor.
Imagine if the 18 wheels game was called 18 semis.
Euro Truck becoming Euro Semi simulator.
CALL THEM TRUCKS
Call those wanna be trucks with beds semis.
We call them pickups, because you pickup stuff with them.
Edit: We call the trailer, well, trailer.
Edit Edit: No one mentioning the truck messages. I guess that's par for the course?
If so, all the better
Holy shit I legitimately wasn't expecting to see moth boy from Cum Town in this video
The legal name for big rigs seems to be tractor-trailer everywhere.
In Manitoba, Canada – directly north of Not Enough Data North Dakota, they are commonly simply called "semi-trailers" by the general public, including news media. I think all the other versions you showed would be recognized, at least, but not used natively.
Lol i live in east tennessee and we use all 3 names.
We call them semis because they are articulated.
I totally missed whatever he said, I was so busy reading the hilarious notes on the trucks.
😂🤣
Tractor-trailer
It's a truck but is missing cargo space so it's half a truck. the trailer is missing front wheels so it's half a trailer. also tractor is short for traction engine, traction engines are like train engines but they have actual traction because of tires. tires aren't as efficient as steel wheels because traction is friction but that friction allows wheels to go up greater than 5% slopes which trains suck at.
One correction:
The 5th wheel doesn't have to be on the truck. It can be on another semi-trailer or on a converter dolly which converts a semi-trailer into a trailer that is pulled behind another trailer or truck.
I guess this is just additional information ratger than a correction since youdid actually answer the question of why it is called a semi-truck.
why don't you just call them trucks
Moroccan trucks pls
in australia, we just call them “trucks”, and what you call a pick-up, we call a ute, which is short for utility vehicle
Keep holding onto those Leprosy Intl. stocks. They will surely bounce back up one day.
In Australia, a semi (just the one word)i is generally used to denote both the combination and also for just the trailer. A semi (the trailer) is hauled by a prime mover. In the industry, we usually refer to singles and doubles – that's one trailer and two trailers, respectively. Non articulated trucks are invariably called rigids. All of these are driven by truckies (or Indians).
I caught a taxi to the deli to pick up some chilli salami to eat while on my semi truck safari.
Hey mate I've got another type of roadtrain that you might not of seen yet that we use in Western Australia called the dual powered roadtrain, I can't find your email adress to show you some picture's and share some info on them so if you're interested reply with your email, thanks.
The trucking company names he inserted in the photos is like the commentary on your favorite dvd.
In Iowa I've often heard a "rigid truck" refered to as a "straight truck".
Here in brazil, we use the word for trailer to call the whole tractor-trailer combination. The tractor alone is called mechanical horse, and non articulated trucks are the only ones we tend to call "trucks", but they can also be called "stump trucks" or even mosquitoes .
We also tend to call mechanical things the way they look or sound, rather than by their technical names. For instance, we tend call brake cylinders "donkeys" (master donkey, and wheel donkey in case of "pan" or drum brakes) because of the squeaky sound they used to make. Another examples are suspension control arms, which can be called "trays" or even "Boomerangs", depending on how they are designed
It. Is. Called. An. Lorry.
The nonarticulating trucks are straight trucks
Transport truck
then you come to australia, where they are just called trucks by the majority, all trucks are just called: trucks, nothing more, nothing less
Two things I'd like to add: first, another term I've heard used more often than any other for rigid trucks is "straight truck" or "straight job." That might be a regional term here in the tri-state though. Also, the FedEx pulling triples you showed while talking about full trailers actually has no full trailers, all of them are 5th wheel pup trailers on pintle hook pup trailer dollies with a 5th wheel on them. You can tell for sure because they all have landing gear. I don't know that I've ever seen a FedEx full trailer, now I think about it.
Guys I think he has recovered from being a shitposter, he changed his description.
Heeey Cool Adam!
In the Midwest it's either a semi or a straight-truck. My friends from Asia called them lorries, and it took me a few times to realize what they were talking about.
I say big rigg is the best name for these vehicles
I requested this yesterday 😀
I’m in Pennsylvania, and I’ve always just called them “trucks.” Other types of trucks get adjectives when needed (“pickup trucks,” etc), but usually context is enough to tell them apart. If I need to clarify that I mean this type of truck, I’ll use any of the regional terms, just whichever comes to mind first.
Long who I was told that they were called semi trucks because they got the idea from an articulated design where the wheels didn't turn but the frame was articulated. That design worked for heavy equipment but doesn't handle well at times. Then for heavy things there were ballast trucks, a heavy cargo truck that pulled heavy loads towed behind it but for very heavy loads like tanks, it had to have ballast weight. Then someone figured out that if you built a trailer that placed part of the load on the truck and part of it on the trailer (about 60/40 weight distribution) connected through some sort of articulated connection (fifth wheel) you got a more useful and stable heavy hauler. Supposedly the Brits called it a semi articulated truck. At least that's what I was told by some old fart where my dad was picking up parts at an equipment salvage yard when I was a kid.
I always thought it was because they are semi truck, semi tractor. Because technically they are tractors, but they have a truck cab.
In Sweden they are called Lastbil which direct translates to Cargocar which does makes sense but i don't expect the englush language to adapt this. For the tractor itself we use Dragbil as the term which would get translated to pulling-car. Only if the trailer and the tractor is together is it known as a lastbil.
Another common type of lastbil is the one that is basically a very large van, they are many times acompanied by a full trailer. This type is the most common in Sweden.
despite being in a much more European section of the world, strangely people in New Zealand tend to refer to them as "Semi-trucks" rather than Lorries or Tractor trailers