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road train

road train noun: a transport conveyance consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers.

road train: a transport conveyance consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers
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Noun

road train (plural road trains)

  1. (Australia, Canada, US) A transport conveyance consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers.
    • Road trains are big rigs made of tractors that pull more than one trailer.[…]They are driven in remote areas of Canada, the United States, and Australia. Australia is home to the largest road trains in the world.[…]It is common for Australian road trains to have up to six trailers attached to a...2007, Adrianna Morganelli, Trucks: Pickups to Big Rigs, page 17
    • Livestock road trains tend to travel in convoys and its^([sic]) best to pull over for a rest and watch them pass.2007, Dick Eussen, Australia′s Savannah Way: Cairns to Broome, page 13

Examples of road train in a sentence

  • Road trains are big rigs made of tractors that pull more than one trailer.[…]They are driven in remote areas of Canada, the United States, and Australia.2007, Adrianna Morganelli, Trucks: Pickups to Big Rigs, page 17:
  • Where there are two semi-trailers and one motive unit this is called a double bottomed articulated vehicle or road train.2010, Alan Rushton, Phil Croucher, Peter Baker, The Handbook of Logistics & Distribution Management, page 398:

Forms of road train

pluralroad trains

Questions about road train

What does road train mean?
Road train means a transport conveyance consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers.
How do you use road train in a sentence?
Road trains are big rigs made of tractors that pull more than one trailer.[…]They are driven in remote areas of Canada, the United States, and Australia.
What part of speech is road train?
Road train is a noun.
What is the plural of road train?
The plural of road train is road trains.

Words near road train in the dictionary

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  10. road trippers
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