When a large lorry pulling a heavy load gets a green light it seems like they have changed three or four gears before they are even through the junction. But not all lorries are like this. A smaller rigid lorry…

Eventually it becomes uneconomical to maintain an old car unless you have the skills yourself. Sometimes it will be a cherished family car, while other times it’ll be a lemon that you’ll be glad to see the back of. There…

Bonneted lorries, or ‘trucks’ as they are called in America and Australia have some advantages in some situations over the cab-over lorries that we have in the UK. In fact, you’ll rarely see bonneted ‘conventional’ trucks in the UK. Let’s…

Curtainside trailers are usually a flat deck trailer with a rigid rear door, a headboard, and canvas curtains down the side which are suspended from roof rails and fastened with buckles. The roof rails are held up by supports at…

A sideloader or sidelifter can refer to twin hydraulic cranes that self-load and unload containers on or off a lorry or trailer, it can be a type of forklift and occasionally it refers to a bin lorry. We’re going to…