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Encyclopedia > Box truck

A box truck, also known as a cube truck, cube van, or box van, is a truck with a cube-shaped cargo area. They usually range in size from 14 feet to 24 feet in length, with smaller or larger ones existing but being rare in North America. They usually have a garage-like rear door that rolls up. On some box trucks, the cargo area is accessibile from the cabin via a small door. The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For other meanings, see Truck (disambiguation). ... A cube (or regular hexahedron) is a three-dimensional Platonic solid composed of six square faces, with three meeting at each vertex. ...


Box trucks are usually used by companies that need to haul appliances or furniture. They are also used as moving trucks which can be rented from companies such as U-Haul or Ryder. For the lesbian dating phenomenon, see U-Haul (lesbian) U-Haul NASDAQ: UHAL is a North American equipment rental company, based in Phoenix, Arizona, that has been in operation since 1945. ... Ryder NYSE: R is a popular truck rental and leasing company for companies distribution and supply chain efforts. ...


The most common manufacturers of box trucks in North America are Ford and Chevrolet/GMC. Ford may mean a number of things: A ford is a river crossing. ... Chevrolet, or Chevy for short, is a brand of automobile, now a division of General Motors. ... The initialism GMC can mean either: GMC, a division of General Motors formerly named GMC Truck Game Maker Community, a game making utility forum. ...


A box truck is sometimes mistakenly called a cargo van. A cargo van is a regular van without rear seats and usually without side windows in the cargo area. Van can mean: Van, a road vehicle. ...



 

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