رأس تريلة / رأس شاحنة

English translation: Tractor Trailer/Truck

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Arabic term or phrase:رأس تريلة / رأس شاحنة
English translation:Tractor Trailer/Truck
Entered by: Eman Riesh

01:30 Jul 22, 2013
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks
Arabic term or phrase: رأس تريلة / رأس شاحنة
Hi everyone

A list of cars and trucks has an item that says

مرسيدس/رأس تريلة/رأس شاحنة

I want to know the difference between رأس تريلة ورأس شاحنة and how you'd translate them

Ramadan Kareem
Eman Riesh
Local time: 11:40
Tractor Trailer/Truck
Explanation:
A Truck is the truck that does not trail a trailer or a semitrailer and the tractor is the same truck but pulling a trailer or a semitrailer. The part in the back is called a semitrailer because only the back end sits on wheels (and thus "trails"); the front end is supported by the tractor (The truck). A full trailer is fully supported by its wheels at front and back. A truck need not have a trailer to be considered a truck.
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George Roosevelt
United States
Local time: 02:40
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Tractor Trailer/Truck
George Roosevelt
5Truck Cabin
Lina Dallal-Bachi


  

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Truck Cabin


Explanation:
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Lina Dallal-Bachi
Local time: 05:40
Native speaker of: Arabic
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Tractor Trailer/Truck


Explanation:
A Truck is the truck that does not trail a trailer or a semitrailer and the tractor is the same truck but pulling a trailer or a semitrailer. The part in the back is called a semitrailer because only the back end sits on wheels (and thus "trails"); the front end is supported by the tractor (The truck). A full trailer is fully supported by its wheels at front and back. A truck need not have a trailer to be considered a truck.

George Roosevelt
United States
Local time: 02:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Shereen Whiten, BA.
8 hrs

agree  Alexander Yeltsov
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