Lorry, Waggon or Truck

[laikin_art]

Why do some people use the word truck and not lorry or even waggon.

Truck is an American term. When I was a lad a truck was a hand-cart or trolley (truckle trolley) & the knights of the road were lorry & waggon drivers.

Just wondering!

[andyroo]

Lorry mostly.

[dreva]

waggon up north

[colket]

laikin’ art:
Why do some people use the word truck and not lorry or even waggon.

Truck is an American term. When I was a lad a truck was a hand-cart or trolley (truckle trolley) & the knights of the road were lorry & waggon drivers.

Just wondering!

Lorry Drivers in this neck of the woods !!!

[dambuster]

All of the above.

Because I’m cosmopolitan, me

[fastrantiger]

A truck is a large vehicle used for transporting bulk goods, materials, or equipment. The word “truck” comes from the Greek “trochos”, meaning “wheel”. In America, the big wheels of wagons were called trucks.

A wagon (sometimes waggon) or dray is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by animals such as horses (and driven by cowboys )

A lorry 1: a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides 2: a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides.

I’m none the wiser

[klunk_cumbria]

Oh dear sorry to be diferent but i have allways called em trucks unless its a Volvo and i have allways been a truck driver even had it under occupation on the old passports.

[russjp]

wagons where i come from(originally)

[rog]

As my old army sargeant used to say “same thing, different name”

[laikin_art]

As my old army sargeant used to say “same thing, different name”

What would your old army sergeant have said if you’d have called your “lieutenant” (leftenant) “lieutenant” (lewtenant) & are they the same thing?

[mothertrucker]

Truck is an American term

When I use the term ‘truck’ to my American friends they presume I am talking about a four wheel drive pick up. Not a ‘semi’ as they call it.

I usually call then Trucks or refer to my artic as my Rig.

[rog]

laikin’ art:

As my old army sargeant used to say “same thing, different name”

What would your old army sergeant have said if you’d have called your “lieutenant” (leftenant) “lieutenant” (lewtenant) & are they the same thing?

Dunno - but it is what he used to say when he got our names wrong

[willy_gofar]

Who cares ■■?

Kind of ■■■■ to get upset because someone else doesn’t call it the same as you do.

[tachograph]

I’ve no idea why people use the terms they do, but I generally refer to myself as a lorry driver and refer to the vehicle as a lorry, but I do occasionally use the term truck and very occasionally I may use the term wagon.

To be honest as long as I get paid to drive it I don’t really care what it’s called

[the_jammer]

I normally say lorry, but sometimes truck too. I use the term “wagon” for any vehicle, as in “thats a nice wagon”. Or as they say in my part or the world “she’s a qwer yoke”

[ellies_dad]

truck

[snafu]

When I was driving I was a truck driver, driving a truck.

I thought wagons was what Indians (sorry Native Americans) shot arrows at.

A lorry was a Ford D series flat.

[Lasurazes]

I call them wagon drivers

but when people as me my occupation
i say “i’m a lorry driver”
(sounds more important too joe bloggs)

[smile]

the ones i keep get hit with are called Heaps

[sugar_ray]

Shed.