Light truck or light duty truck is a classification for trucks or truck-based vehicles with a payload capacity of less than 4,000 pounds (1,815 kg). For other uses, see Truck (disambiguation). ... The Trikke is a Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) Automobiles are among the most commonly used engine powered vehicles. ... This article is about transported goods. ... Look up pound in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Kg redirects here. ...

United States

The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) defines a light-duty truck to be any motor vehicle having a gross vehicle weight rating (curb weight plus payload) of no more than 8,500 pounds (3,855.5 kg) which is “(1) Designed primarily for purposes of transportation of property or is a derivation of such a vehicle, or (2) Designed primarily for transportation of persons and has a capacity of more than 12 persons, or (3) Available with special features enabling off-street or off-highway operation and use.” (40CFR86.082-2) The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government of the United States. ... A gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) is the estimated total weight of a road vehicle that is loaded to capacity, including the weight of the vehicle itself plus fuel, passengers, cargo, and other miscellaneous items such as extra aftermarket parts. ... Kerb (sometimes mis-spelled as curb by Americans) weight is the total weight of a vehicle with standard equipment, all necessary operating consumables (such as motor oil and coolant), a full tank of fuel and not loaded with either passengers or cargo. ... This article is about transported goods. ...

Fuel efficiency

The United States government uses light truck as a vehicle class in regulating fuel economy through the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard. The class includes vans, minivans, sport utility vehicles, and pickup trucks. Light trucks have lower fuel economy standards than cars, under the premise that these vehicles are used for utilitarian purposes rather than personal transportation. Fuel efficiency, sometimes also referred to as fuel economy and commonly gas mileage in the United States, is a numeric measure often used to describe the amount of fuel consumed with regard to the distance travelled in a transportation vehicle, such as an automobile. ... The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regulations in the United States, first enacted by Congress in 1975,[1] are federal regulations intended to improve the average fuel economy of cars and light trucks (trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles) sold in the US in the wake of the 1973 Arab... This article is about the road vehicle. ... It has been suggested that Mini MPV be merged into this article or section. ... A fourth-generation (2006-) Ford Explorer, the best-selling mid-size SUV in the United States. ... The best selling North American pickup truck, the Ford F-Series. ...

Since light trucks sold in the United States are increasingly being used for personal use, some have advocated applying higher economy standards to light trucks that are not used for utilitarian purposes. One argument in support of this is that light trucks are sometimes built on a unibody architecture, which is less strong than a body-on-frame chassis and therefore would not be suited for utilitarian purposes; crossover SUVs are a common example. Monocoque (French for single shell) or unibody is a construction technique that uses the external skin of an object to support some or most of the load on the structure. ... Body-on-frame is an automobile construction technology. ... A crossover SUV (also called CUV for Crossover Utility Vehicle) or XUV (not to be confused with GMCs Envoy XUV) is an automobile with a sport utility vehicle appearance but is built upon a more economical and fuel-efficient unibody construction. ...

See also

• California Air Resources Board
• Commercial vehicle
• Emission standard
• Light commercial vehicle

California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the clean air agency of the state of California in the United States. ... A commercial vehicle is a type of vehicle used for carrying goods or passengers. ... Emission standards are requirements that set specific limits to the amount of pollutants that can be released into the environment. ... Light commercial vehicles (LCV) or category N1 is the formal term in the European Union for goods vehicles with a maximum allowed mass (MAM) of up to 3. ...

External links

• Regulatory Announcement on EPA changing definitions of the light and heavy-duty trucks