Sentence examples for semitrailer from inspiring English sources

A semitrailer may be converted to a full trailer by a trailer-converter dolly, an auxiliary axle assembly equipped with the lower half of a fifth wheel, a drawbar, and other special parts.

A truck tractor is a motor vehicle designed primarily for drawing truck trailers and constructed to carry part of the weight and load of a semitrailer, which is a truck trailer equipped with one or more axles and constructed so that the end and a substantial part of its own weight and that of its load rests upon a truck tractor.

A device called a fifth wheel is used to connect a truck tractor to a semitrailer and to permit articulation between the units.

It generally includes a lower half, consisting of a trunnion (pivot assembly) plate and latching mechanism, mounted on the truck tractor for connection with a kingpin mounted on the semitrailer.

On a Sunday afternoon last month, in the parking lot of Cypress Church, an evangelical Wesleyan congregation just outside Columbus, Ohio, a middle-aged woman exited a semitrailer and began to sob.

Tim Glenn, the communications director for Compassion International, wouldn't tell me how much each semitrailer costs to build and operate.

So Alabama, behind and not playing all that well, handed the ball to Lacy, 6 feet and 220 pounds, a player who should be listed as running back-slash-semitrailer truck.

In Senate testimony earlier this year, Rob Quartel, a former federal maritime commissioner, said that each of the semitrailer-size steel containers -- which arrive in the United States at the rate of 2,000 an hour -- should "be treated as a potential weapon of mass destruction".

This problem can be overcome to some extent by embarking only semitrailers and leaving the tractive units ashore; the practice has no effect on the terminal details.

Semitrailers and tank trailers in many instances now employ the integral, or unitized, type of construction.

Semitrailers had been lined up in a staging area near the main building since before dawn, and Brown was inspecting pallets as they were unloaded.