Farm truck

A farm truck is a vehicle designated for agricultural use, and may include anything from small pick-up trucks or even vehicles fashioned out of old parts, to class 8 eighteen-wheeler trucks. Some states in the United States have a special registration for farm trucks that includes restrictions such as distance the vehicle may travel from the farm.

Asia

In Asia, farm truck generally refers to small four-wheel trucks or transporters many times manufafactured in artisanal or small rural and peri-urban workshops) and in larger factories in developing countries of Asia. They can be classified as an intermediate means of transport. They usually consist of simple rail-type frames, with axles, brakes and steering assemblies cobbled from new or second-hand vehicular spare parts and are generally powered by single-cylinder diesel and petrol engines.

Farm trucks of Thailand

In Thailand, such trucks are known as rot i-taen (Thai: รถอีแต๋น). Manufactured as early as the mid-1950s, these artfully painted Thai farm trucks can be frequently seen in various parts of rural Thailand transporting farm produce, rice threshers, and people. These are not to be confused with the songthaew pickup trucks. The Tallythong factory in Panatnikhom, Chonburi manufactures Superbull farm truck.


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