When I moved to Cottingham about ten years ago one the things that struck me was that there were an awful lot of trucks, just like this one, going back and forth. They weren't all orange but they all seemed empty. What was going on? Well what was going on was that I had moved into the training area of the Defence School of Transport based at Normandy Barracks, Leconfield. This just happens to be "probably the largest residential driver training school in the world"! They take their young wannabe HGV drivers out on the local roads not to universal approbation it has to be said. Over the years you tend not to notice them as they pass by nor when they're parked up down the road for the obligatory cigarette break.Can't be sure on this but I'm guessing tobacco has killed more soldiers than enemy action.
You're just the person to ask. If this is a truck, and I believe it is, then what's a lorry? Would you call a pick-up truck a pick-up truck? This is important for a piece of writing I'm working on.
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit like ships and boats, size matters, to me a lorry is either bigger or heavier than a truck but there is obviously overlap, small heavy lorries might get called large trucks. If it's articulated it's almost always a lorry.Pick up vans are simply pick up vans though they are not so common in UK. Now if you're moving house you would use a removal van which looks pretty much the same as this truck. Again vans are smaller than trucks on the whole. See this site if you haven't already and good luck! http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/trucks-and-lorries.html
DeleteThanks. I'll use that site a lot.
DeleteI've heard the term lorry mostly from reading books set in the British isles, but it's a word that doesn't get used at all on this side of the ocean.
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