Truck (disambiguation)

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A truck is a vehicle for carrying goods and materials. Truck or trucks may also refer to:

Entertainment

Objects

  • Bogies, called "trucks" in North American railroading
  • Trucks, part of a skateboard
  • Truck (rigging), a wooden ball, disk, or bun-shaped cap at the top of a mast

People

  • Truck Hannah (1889-1982), Major League Baseball catcher
  • Truck Parham (1911-2002), American jazz double-bassist
  • Truck Robinson (born 1951), retired National Basketball Association power forward
  • Butch Trucks (born 1947), American drummer and a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band
  • Derek Trucks (born 1979), American guitarist, songwriter, founder of The Derek Trucks Band and member of The Allman Brothers Band; nephew of Butch Trucks
  • Virgil Trucks (1917-2013), Major League Baseball pitcher and coach

Other uses

  • Trucks or troco, a lawn game
  • Truck farming, the cultivation of vegetable crops for transport to local markets
  • Truck system, an arrangement in which employees are paid in commodities or a currency substitute

See also

  • Forklift truck, a powered industrial vehicle used to lift and move materials.
  • Hand truck, also a sack truck in the United Kingdom
  • Sport utility vehicle, interchangeably referred to by its colloquial terms "car" and "truck", though it has recently become a superclass of its own
  • "Truckin'", a Grateful Dead song, released in 1970
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