I drive a lorry for a living, A lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.
Wow that's interesting, do you need a degree to do that?
Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration. But no you just have to go to truck school.
That's fascinating, what kind of cargo do they usually transport?
Well mine is configured to mount specialized equipment like cement mixers and stuff.
Oh that sounds like expensive products, certainly need to be careful transporting that kind of stuff.
is not a truck but a "tractor".
Modern trucks are largely powered by diesel engines, although small to medium size trucks with gasoline engines exist in the US, Canada, and Mexico. In the European Union, vehicles with a gross combination mass of up to are known as light commercial vehicles, and those over as large goods vehicles.
History.
History Steam wagons.
Trucks and cars have a common ancestor: the steam-powered "fardier" Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built in 1769. However
Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo. Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration; smaller varieties may be mechanically similar to some automobiles. Commercial trucks can be very large and powerful and may be configured to be mounted with specialized equipment, such as in the case of refuse trucks, fire trucks, concrete mixers, and suction excavators. Strictly speaking, a commercial vehicle without a tractor or other articulation is a "straight truck" while one designed specifically to pull a trailer