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Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.
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Afghan (Australia)
The "Afghans" or "Ghans" were camel caravanners who worked in Outback Australia from the 1860s to the 1930s.
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Air brake (road vehicle)
An air brake or, more formally, a compressed air brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to apply the pressure to the brake pad needed to stop the vehicle.
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Alice Springs
Alice Springs (Arrernte: Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Articulated vehicle
An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivot joint in its construction, allowing the vehicle to turn more sharply.
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Associated Equipment Company
Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and lorries from 1912 until 1979.
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Augusta Highway
The Augusta Highway is the part of Australia's ring route (Highway 1) located in South Australia between Port Wakefield and Port Augusta.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian pound
The Australian pound (symbol £) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 14 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar.
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Axle
An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear.
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B-train
In the road transport or trucking industry a B-train consists of two trailers linked together by a fifth wheel, and are up to 26 m (85 ft) long.
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BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995.
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Bourke, New South Wales
Bourke is a town in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia.
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Brake
A brake is a mechanical device that inhibits motion by absorbing energy from a moving system.
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Camel
A camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back.
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Campbellfield, Victoria
Campbellfield is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north of Melbourne's central business district.
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Cargo
In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.
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Cattle
Cattle—colloquially cows—are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.
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Central Australia
Central Australia, also known as the Alice Springs Region, is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.
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Clifton, Queensland
Clifton is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Construction aggregate
Construction aggregate, or simply "aggregate", is a broad category of coarse to medium grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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Dolly (trailer)
A dolly is an unpowered vehicle designed for connection to a tractor unit, truck or prime mover vehicle with strong traction power.
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Drawbar (haulage)
A drawbar is a solid coupling between a hauling vehicle and its hauled load.
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Eight-wheel drive
Eight-wheel drive, often notated as 8WD or 8×8, is a drivetrain configuration that allows all eight wheels of an eight-wheeled vehicle to be drive wheels (that is, to receive power from the engine) simultaneously.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Fifth-wheel coupling
The fifth-wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly.
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Finland
Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.
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Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide.
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Florida's Turnpike
Florida's Turnpike, designated as State Road 91 (SR 91), is a toll road in the U.S. state of Florida, maintained by Florida's Turnpike Enterprise (FTE).
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Fuel
A fuel is any material that can be made to react with other substances so that it releases energy as heat energy or to be used for work.
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Geelong
Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia.Geelong is south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Gillman, South Australia
Gillman is a north-western suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
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Gladhand connector
A gladhand connector or gladhand coupler is an interlocking hose coupling fitted to hoses supplying pressurized air from a tractor unit to air brakes on a semi-trailer, or from a locomotive to railway air brakes on railroad cars.
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Government of South Australia
The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of South Australia.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916), was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War.
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Indiana
Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
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Indiana Toll Road
The Indiana Toll Road, officially the Indiana East–West Toll Road, is a toll road that runs for east–west across northern Indiana from the Illinois state line to the Ohio state line.
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Interstate 90
Interstate 90 (I-90) is a transcontinental freeway, and the longest Interstate Highway in the United States at.
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Jackknifing
Jackknifing refers to the folding of an articulated vehicle so that it resembles the acute angle of a folding pocket knife.
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Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist and writer who specialises in motoring.
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John Fowler & Co.
John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment.
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Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie, part of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a city in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway.
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Kansas Turnpike
The Kansas Turnpike is a, freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas.
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Kenworth
Kenworth is an American and Australian manufacturer of medium and heavy-duty Class 8 trucks, with corporate office and engineering headquarters in the Seattle, Washington suburb of Kirkland.
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Less than truckload shipping
Less than truckload shipping or less than load (LTL) is the transportation of relatively small freight.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Long combination vehicle
Long combination vehicles are combinations of multiple trailers on tractor trucks as compared to standard 5 axle semi trailer-trucks with one trailer.
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Longer Heavier Vehicle
Longer Heavier Vehicles (LHVs), also called super lorries, is a classification of large goods vehicle (LGV) (formerly Heavy Goods Vehicles, HGVs) in the United Kingdom.
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M19 Tank Transporter
The M19 Tank Transporter (US supply catalog designation G159) was a heavy tank transporter system used in World War II and into the 1950s.
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Mack Titan
The Mack Titan is a heavy duty truck produced by Mack Trucks.
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Main Roads Western Australia
Main Roads Western Australia (formerly the Main Roads Department) is an agency of the Government of Western Australia that is responsible for implementing the state's policies on road access and main roads.
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Massachusetts Turnpike
The Massachusetts Turnpike (locally called the "Mass Pike" or "the Pike") is a toll road in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
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Merredin, Western Australia
Merredin is a town in Western Australia, located in the Central Wheatbelt roughly midway between Perth and Kalgoorlie, on Route 94, Great Eastern Highway.
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Mungindi
Mungindi is a town and locality on the border of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland, Australia.
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National Road Transport Hall of Fame
The National Road Transport Hall of Fame is a transport museum based in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
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National Transport Commission
The National Transport Commission (NTC), previously known as the National Road Transport Commission, is an Australian independent statutory body created to develop regulatory and operational reform for road, rail and intermodal transport.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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New York State Thruway
The New York State Thruway, often called simply the Thruway, is a system of limited-access highways located within the state of New York in the United States.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Ohio Turnpike
The Ohio Turnpike, officially the James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike, is a, limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of Ohio, serving as a primary corridor to Chicago and Pittsburgh.
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Ore
An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.
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Outback
The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.
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Outer Harbor, South Australia
Outer Harbor is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located at the northern tip of the Lefevre Peninsula about north-west of the Adelaide city centre.
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Overland train
In the 1950s, LeTourneau Inc.
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Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.
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Pintle
A pintle is a pin or bolt, usually inserted into a gudgeon, which is used as part of a pivot or hinge.
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Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD.
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Port Augusta
Port Augusta is a small city in South Australia.
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Port Kembla, New South Wales
Port Kembla is a suburb of Wollongong 8 km south of the CBD and part of the Illawarra region of New South Wales.
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Port Wakefield Road
Port Wakefield Road is an important Australian highway.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Ringfeder
Ringfeder is the trading name of a German company based in Krefeld.
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Road transport in Australia
Road transport is an essential element of the Australian transport network, and enabler of the Australian economy.
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Rolling highway
In rail transportation, a rolling highway, or rolling road is a form of combined transport involving the conveying of road trucks by rail, referred to as Ro-La trains.
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Salisbury Highway
The Salisbury Highway (Route A9, formerly Route A13 / National Highway A13) is a 12 kilometre major connecting road in the northern suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.
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Semi-trailer
A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle.
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Semi-trailer truck
A semi-trailer truck (more commonly semi truck or simply "semi") is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.
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South Australia
South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Towing
Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources.
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Traction engine
A traction engine is a self-propelled steam engine used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location.
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Tractor unit
A tractor unit (prime mover or traction unit) is a characteristically heavy-duty towing engine that provides motive power for hauling a towed or trailered load.
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Transport
Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another.
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Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.
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Winton, Queensland
Winton is a town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
