The Trucks

y cars are more efficient then trucks. Today vehicles are built in different ways such as cars and trucks for example, The physical and looks of a vehicle can be far from what the price is. Two vehicles can have different safety features, economical features, and luxury features. When I was looking at my first vehicle to buy I was looking at size and how big my first car was going to be. I was reading a news paper add and saw a Ford F-150 on sale from the dealership for a great price so I did my research on the truck. while researching, I found out safety features were amazing why? Even though the truck is consider a high profile vehicle it is probable for flipping or can be accidentally hitting other objects with out knowing. Safety features the truck had were amazing and the resign I say this is, when I did research on my truck it had twelve airbags. The front of the cab has two, the side of passenger side has a curtain and roll airbag that is also the same for the driver side of the truck. On the back end of the cab there are only roll airbags and back side seat airbags. There is also overhead airbags to protect your head…

Gas Trucks or Diesel Trucks Everywhere you go, there is always going to be a truck for show or work. Some have better motors and looks, others just get people from point A to point B. No matter what kind of truck “ chevy,dodge, or ford” they all have different motors from diesel to gas. The classifications of them will help you better decide from what you want, puller or just a cruiser. Diesel trucks are a more common pulling and show truck. A diesel engine has around 370 horsepower and 750…

Food trucks have proliferated into the United States Cities and those of other countries around the world. Recently I was in Egypt, and I couldn’t resist tasting the delicacies that were displayed from the many food trucks around. The package was indeed tasty, but the excitement did not last for long. I had terrible stomach pains that had to be attended to at the nearby hospital. I was admitted for five days in the hospital as the stomach issue was checked. This experience made me do a…

Truck Platooning - Overview In the world of trucks, platooning can be stated as - 'a group of trucks/lorries forming a cavalcade to travel in a sync with the help of communication through technology'. The first vehicle in the series held the responsibility to communicate with the tail. Truck platooning has been in fashion since last four or five decades, but actual date/year of its discovery is yet to be found. The Significance of Truck Platooning Truck platooning is considered as one of…

I awoke to the familiar sound of squeaking and rattling just in time to see my uncle take a wide and calculated right turn into 119th street. As we began to ascend the steep gravel road, the truck began to tremble as my uncle struggled to keep the clutch from slipping. When we finally reached the top, the smell of burnt clutch filled my lungs. I opened the window to get a fresh breath, but the burst of piercing December air made me shut the window as fast as my stiffened body would allow. To…

Memories of my truck I’ve had tons of interesting and stressful experiences with my truck. I first got my truck when I was 15 years old. It is a 05 Toyota tundra. The memories I’m going to write about will be the memories of my truck breaking down. My truck was in need of a new water pump so one day me and my mechanic went to his shop with my truck to put the new one on. First we put the truck on the lift and popped the head and began taking out the radiator and drained all the coolant from the…

with trucks” ad shows a beautiful new Chevy truck on the edge of a cornfield, with the words, “Some of us grew up playing with tractors and trucks, the lucky ones still do,” proudly displayed above the truck. General Motors, an automobile manufacturer primarily in North America, most likely had an intended audience of hard working people, particularly farmers to grab the attention of with the “Still plays with trucks” ad. The main reason that an ad like this is effective is because the majority…

Reflective Essay A few years ago when I first started looking at vehicles I told my dad I want a full sized truck with 4x4. He always said I should buy a car but I insisted on a truck. Finally one day he said to me that he might have found me a truck or two and he said we could go look at them the following weekend. So the next weekend we went looked at them and the first truck was in a field in rough shape, rusted out box, chewed up interior, a rusted out floor pan and it had a manual. Now at…

The future of truck driving will be driven by efficiency. Economically, the inefficiencies are related to scheduling/brokerage, energy consumption, and humans as a driver themselves. According to TechCrunch, “Shippers, brokers, and carriers all suffer from an extreme lack of modern technology. The entire industry is run on an archaic 15-year-old software, almost no data is captures, none of the software systems can communicate with each other.” It also noted that two-thirds of shippers don’t use…

A truck driver is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck (usually a semi truck, box truck, or dump truck). Truck drivers carry goods to other places or states. The farther distance traveled the more money they make. I chose this career because I want to travel to different states. In my opinion I think I would be a good truck driver. An inspiration to me would be my uncle because he is one. Truck driving is a great career because I will be working with a team traveling places,…