Why are you calling them Trucks

I can lend you a flack jacked and bent old army helmut if yoy want. I have a spare set.

I always laugh at the drivers (Mums in boots and jeans) standing besides the 4WD taxis and up comes this pretty little city AWD and one of the drivers says "Nice rig". You have to laugh. Its got to be an ego thing.

Duck - Incoming.

"Why do some people on this forum call their vehicles trucks"

Because we can .....You say about buggering off to "The Land Of The Free", but i thought this country was already supposed to be a free country???

Actually, it begs the question, are you the same person who has started this debate on here a few times before?

Cheers & Merry Christmas .....Dave

Nick, I couldn't agree with you more, although I don't have 6 vehicles, I do drive a ute.

John

Its pretty simple - a truck you need a truck license to drive. I think an F350 is about the smallest truck you can buy

Just because I damn well want to and I can. :-)

So what`s wrong with that ?

It`s a free world is it not ??

I hope you are just fishing coz I just took the bait Ha Ha.


Merry Christmas,

Scrubby

We have a small sedan as a runaround and a 4wd to tow the van and as a second car. both Mitsubishi's.
If I need to ask my wife which vehicle she wants on any day, much easier to refer to truck or car than to use many more syllables to describe them.
Think you are getting a bit precious worrying about whether they are technically trucks. More things than that to worry about in life thanks.

kenD
bris

I'm guilty as charged your honour!!!

I drive a heavy (3500kg) Patrol dual cab with a fairly large donk (6.5 Chev V8 diesel).

I have a Subaru (which I call the car).

If we (the family) are about to go somewhere, I tell 'em either: "we're going in the truck"............ or..........."we're going in the car"......

It just doesn't seem right to call the Patrol a "car".

I could refer to it as "the SUV" or maybe the "4X4" or maybe even "the Patrol", but all those options are either too yankified (in the case of "SUV") or they use up too may syllables.

Anyway.....I'm the bloke who paid my dosh for my "truck", so I'll bloody-well call it whatever I bloody-well like and if you don't like it, then I guess you'll just have to jam it where your mum never kissed ya....hahahahahaha

Roachie

Well, I don't call mine anything, but with a separate ladder-frame chassis, truck engine (TD42T), and truck gearbox, it's definitely more truck than car...


The term that leaves me cold, is "rig".....

Rig???? wassup wit dat?????

(Now I'm gunna cop it........;-))


:)

I have a 21 year old Toyota Landcruiser Ute which quite frankly drives like a truck so I call it just that. But really it's a paddock bashers on the farm.

Our 4x4 is a Jeep Wrangler & I certainly don't call it a truck.

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My Landcrusier has a GVM of 4500kg - the same as some small Isuzu or Hino trucks. So why can't I call mine a truck?

I s'pose like OMG (ad nausem) and Go Figure and Guys and Buddy....Truck is taken from the land of Nasal Hot Air.

Well, my old GQ isn't a CAR. And it isn't a WAGON (thats reserved for stretched cars like Falcoons and Dunnydoors) and it drives somewhat like a, a, a....dare I say it....a TRUCK!

Truck sort of rolls off the tongue. Maybe it is a MAN thing. I wanna TRUCK to look BIG in...especially at the traffic lights!!!!!!

.....and all I can afford is a busted old Datto GQ...

There ya go....................



Cheers

If it looks like one, smells like one and drives like one it must be dam close to being one , LOL

Truck 1
Definition: A small wheel, as of a vehicle; specifically (Ord.), a small strong wheel, as of wood or iron, for a gun carriage.

Truck 2
Definition: A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles.


Truck 3
Definition: A swiveling carriage, consisting of a frame with one or more pairs of wheels and the necessary boxes, springs, etc., to carry and guide one end of a locomotive or a car; sometimes called bogie in England. Trucks usually have four or six wheels.


Truck 4
Definition: A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through.


Truck 5
Definition: A small piece of wood, usually cylindrical or disk-shaped, used for various purposes.


Truck 6
Definition: A freight car.


Truck 7
Definition: A frame on low wheels or rollers; used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies.


Truck 8
Definition: To transport on a truck or trucks.


Truck 9
Definition: To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust.


Truck 10
Definition: To exchange commodities; to barter; to trade; to deal.


Truck 11
Definition: Exchange of commodities; barter.


Truck 12
Definition: Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market.


Truck 13
Definition: The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; called also truck system.


truck 14
Definition: a handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects


truck 15
Definition: an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling


truck 16
Definition: convey (goods etc.) by truck; "truck fresh vegetables across the mountains"

Aha, now we are getting down to it. It seems from the two Nicks, in their minds, there is some sort of badge of honour for driving a real truck with real gear boxes etc.
Get a life "guys" or should I say "good ol boys".

kenD
bris

Yeah the cricket was a bit of a let down. Have to wait for tomorrow. Got a few minutes to waste. Marginally better than the latest on Tiger Woods.

Definitions of truck on the Web:

* an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

Seems broad enough to cover nearly anything.

Yawn!

If you have a hang-up about "truck" what do you think of the increasing use of "pickup".

Yawn!


Lost interest in this thread.

Bye

Its fair enough, but we can call whatever we like, whatever we like, cant we?

Suppose we better not call them chariots, rigs, rides, tugs, wheels, cars, because they are none of that either. Best refer to them as Automobiles or Modes of transportation.

I would be more worried about the fact of where there made then where the term come from. Petty really. We have had a better past with the yanks then the japs matey.

I see your Truck is wearing BF Goodrich. Dont you know you CAN buy AUSSIE made tyres. Hate people who wear Yank tyres on there trucks. So you wont use there lingo but you will support there economy. What a knob.

2 vehicles

Margo's peugeot AKA Pug

My ute AKA Truck

It is simple and easy,

Keep on truckin'

Nick T..Gotta agree to a point, but, an "MG" is smaller than your average
Holden or Ford, thus is called a " sports car". My cruiser is smaller than a
Mack or Kenworth, and bigger than a Holden, so it must be a " sports truck".
Well that's my opinion, and I'm gunna run with it..haha

Who knows why and whats more who cares, call it Martha for all I care. (I call mine "the 4wd or the cruiser") and whats more whats worse someone giving their vehicle a name other than what it is for their own gratification or someone who would seek to impose their views and beliefs on others and ridicule them for not conforming with their own beliefs.
Anyway enough of my crapolla babble and please take it light heartedly but you did say you wanted to see debate (lol) Honestly mines either the 4wd or the cruiser and thats just my preference.

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Hi Nick - Sounds like you are celebrating a good harvest - i hope you got a good yield. Not so good our way.

It does amuse and sometimes annoy me to hear those 4wd drivers from that other side of the country refer to their 4wds as trucks. A truck to me has a big tray back for goods carrying. Some of those easterners even refer to a Patrol wagon as a truck - gee ours is a family wagon. The trayback Cruiser is a Ute. The trucks are much bigger and i don't have licence to drive them. Get outmore is spot on - if you don't need a truck licence to drive it, it isn't a truck. Even our F250 isn't a truck - i can drive it (if i sit on a thick pillow LOL).

Motherhen

Hi all,

I don't call my ute a truck or pick up I call it a ute, even if its a wagon its still the ute. Dont know why but thats what i call it.

I don't really care what other people call their rigs trucks or pick ups, don't have anything against the US of A but they can be egotistical knobs some times.

Cheers Wilko

p.s. My BIL is a septic and he's basically an Aussie with a US accent

G/Day Nick

We have had that many 4wd"s over the year that I have lost count, and for some reason or another I have always called them Trucks, I can't stand any Yanky terms used to describe Australian things or what ever, but the early 4wd"s had big Gearboxes / Transfer Cases / Engines ect, and the term built like a Truck comes to mind, but I'm not sorry we don't call them Lorries like the Poms.

Cheers

'Fender drivers don't have this dilemma....after all it is a "Landy"..........

But, imagine calling a Patrol a "Patrolly" or a Cruser a "Cruisey". I guess "truck" was the next best thing for Toyo and Nissan drivers...........

Tongue firmly in cheek, but still reaching for the flak jacket!

Cheers

Thanks to everyone who was involved in this thread. Can't believe how many got moderated. It certainly livened up a quiet saturday night while The Boss (Wifey) was at bookclub. I'll now crawl back into the bunker with my flack Jacket and dented old helmet. lol

Merry Xmas Big Nick

Let's talk about something important.

What are you having for dinner???

Kevin J

and you know whats more annoying?
when customers come in and say
i need a set of boots for my truck.
there not boots there tyres.
its not a truck its a patrol/cruiser etc.
cheers

Because my 4x4 is a NB2 truck and requires a "truck license".
A bit bigger than your narrow mind!
have fun
gmd

Nick
As an old Truckie I did raise this issue around 2 years ago, while I agree with you I don't see the need to being a US basher/knocker,
I think it probably makes 'em feel a little bigger in the head than car drivers, now "Ya'll knows what I mean there eh"
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Sorry I just could'nt resist the sign...

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. . . because of the way they handle on road compared with a car.

Ego ,the mines bigger than yours bleep envy .

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what a stupid thread. Just writing stuff to make people argue! have you not got anything better to do?