truckyboy:
BTW Rob hit the nail on the head describing an old Lorry driver ha ha no bib and brace for me, or flat cap…thats for northerners…we wore overalls and ex army boots ( coveralls ) today.
And if he was a union worker he’d have a rolled up newspaper in the leg pocket of the overalls 
Where as ‘‘lorry’’ and ‘‘lorry driver’’ conjures up in my mind an old guy with a cloth cap, bib and brace, with clogs, and Army greatcoat sat behind the wheel of a Thames Trader in the 50s. 
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I am that man. Have we met?
Carryfast:
animal:
Lorry = EnglishTruck = American
Australians and New Zealanders call them trucks in addition to it being an internationally understood term in which lorry makes as much sense to a Latin American operator as Camion does to a Scandinavian or Slav etc.Which probably explains why I helped to make and drove fire trucks for export around the world while they were never called fire lorries even here.Also maybe why it’s not called lorrynet uk.
Generally, trucks are called Prime Movers or PM’s in Australia … further more most Fire trucks are called Fire engines or pumps … my a Father in Law is a 35 year vet of London Fire Brigade and they generally refer to them as Engines and pumps.
Lorry = Puddle jumper, 18t or any rigid.
Truck = Anything Articulated
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discoman:
Carryfast:
animal:
Lorry = EnglishTruck = American
Australians and New Zealanders call them trucks in addition to it being an internationally understood term in which lorry makes as much sense to a Latin American operator as Camion does to a Scandinavian or Slav etc.Which probably explains why I helped to make and drove fire trucks for export around the world while they were never called fire lorries even here.Also maybe why it’s not called lorrynet uk.
Generally, trucks are called Prime Movers or PM’s in Australia … further more most Fire trucks are called Fire engines or pumps … my a Father in Law is a 35 year vet of London Fire Brigade and they generally refer to them as Engines and pumps.
Picture the scene as they go flying out of the station with two pumps to rescue people from a tower block.Or a tower and a hose layer or multilift hookloader hazchem etc going to the scene of a house fire.Or a refinery tender being sent to deal with an air accident.
Or a Prime Mover driver tries to couple up a drawbar trailer to a tractor unit.Or tries to move a semi trailer tanker load with a rigid tipper.
I thought a puddle jumper was a 7.5T like what Steve drives although anyone who droves something bigger than a smart car in London all day deserves respect! 
Wagon for me mainly, then a bit of truck, never say lorry
Puddle jumper is a 7.5 tonner
Would also say rigid, 8 wheeler, 8 legger, unit
When I was a lad in the '50s I was taught that lorries went on the road and that trucks went on railway lines!
As for juggernaut: that was invented in the late '60s or early '70s by biased journalists and activists who wanted lorries off the roads of the (then un-bypassed) villages they lived in
Robert
Yoke.
Carryfast:
discoman:
Carryfast:
animal:
Lorry = EnglishTruck = American
Australians and New Zealanders call them trucks in addition to it being an internationally understood term in which lorry makes as much sense to a Latin American operator as Camion does to a Scandinavian or Slav etc.Which probably explains why I helped to make and drove fire trucks for export around the world while they were never called fire lorries even here.Also maybe why it’s not called lorrynet uk.
Generally, trucks are called Prime Movers or PM’s in Australia … further more most Fire trucks are called Fire engines or pumps … my a Father in Law is a 35 year vet of London Fire Brigade and they generally refer to them as Engines and pumps.
Picture the scene as they go flying out of the station with two pumps to rescue people from a tower block.Or a tower and a hose layer or multilift hookloader hazchem etc going to the scene of a house fire.Or a refinery tender being sent to deal with an air accident.
Or a Prime Mover driver tries to couple up a drawbar trailer to a tractor unit.Or tries to move a semi trailer tanker load with a rigid tipper.
Here we go again, have you ever been to Australia? Most units, are referred to as a prime mover, you know a vehicle that pulls a trailer … as for a wag and drag they are often referred to as a truck and dog (here in Nsw anyway) but you would know that wouldn’t you carry fast … oh and yes, in Australia, thye do use a primer mover tomcouple up to a wag and drag trailer … they use the A frame to couple to a 5th wheel then attach to said Dog… but you would know all this wouldn’t you… as said have you ever been to Australia■■?
Maybe, you didn’t read it correctly, I said the brigade generally refer to them as Engines and pumps …
I and most I know from the UK know then as Fire Engines… and if there was a tower block then thye would send a ladder to the block wouldn’t they … the general public wouldn’t say could you please send a fire lorry to a fire … they would say we need the fire brigade… As for an Air Accident unless it was on the public highway it would be dealt with by the airport fire service …
Truck for me, we have this forum - TruckNet - Truck & Driver magazine, trucker etc.
Clarkson likes to call us Lorryists, but to me it’s still truck.
Although when I’m arriving at work in the morning I always ask the yard man “Where’s my Horse?” 
Arthurhucksake:
Although when I’m arriving at work in the morning I always ask the yard man “Where’s my Horse?”
I’m 'avin that Although mine would be a pony 
Looking at your username, is your name Arthur Huck?
If so, that’s my Grandads, he wants it back even though he doesn’t use it anymore, unless you actually are him then welcome back to life, Grandad BTW, Me and Mum sold your house
Truck for me - less syllables lol.
How about Jake break vs retarder. . .
discoman:
Here we go again, have you ever been to Australia? Most units, are referred to as a prime mover, you know a vehicle that pulls a trailer … as for a wag and drag they are often referred to as a truck and dog (here in Nsw anyway) but you would know that wouldn’t you carry fast … oh and yes, in Australia, thye do use a primer mover tomcouple up to a wag and drag trailer … they use the A frame to couple to a 5th wheel then attach to said Dog… but you would know all this wouldn’t you… as said have you ever been to Australia■■?Maybe, you didn’t read it correctly, I said the brigade generally refer to them as Engines and pumps …
I and most I know from the UK know then as Fire Engines… and if there was a tower block then thye would send a ladder to the block wouldn’t they … the general public wouldn’t say could you please send a fire lorry to a fire … they would say we need the fire brigade… As for an Air Accident unless it was on the public highway it would be dealt with by the airport fire service …
I’ve never been to Oz but do know that firstly they call tractor units Prime Movers there because road trains were generally pulled by rigids so Prime Movers not tractor units.However the name erroneously stuck after the general change.As for pulling a semi trailer with a tractor unit using a dolly which you seem to be describing why ?.While if you mean using a drawbar coupling on a unit to couple up to an A frame trailer that’s still a tractor unit not a Prime Mover unless you remove the fifth wheel and fit a ballast box in its place.However they are all types of …truck driven by …truckies ?.
As for fire brigade terminology as I said a fire engine or a pump or a tower or refinery or aircraft tenders are all types of fire …trucks not lorries.Especially when ordering the chassis to build any of them on.IE in the first instance it’s an enquiry for a fire truck chassis not a fire engine,let alone fire lorry,chassis.
While Commercial Motor at least changed its classified used vehicle pages title from Vehicles to Trucks around the late 1980’s for some reason.
Carryfast:
discoman:
Here we go again, have you ever been to Australia? Most units, are referred to as a prime mover, you know a vehicle that pulls a trailer … as for a wag and drag they are often referred to as a truck and dog (here in Nsw anyway) but you would know that wouldn’t you carry fast … oh and yes, in Australia, thye do use a primer mover tomcouple up to a wag and drag trailer … they use the A frame to couple to a 5th wheel then attach to said Dog… but you would know all this wouldn’t you… as said have you ever been to Australia■■?Maybe, you didn’t read it correctly, I said the brigade generally refer to them as Engines and pumps …
I and most I know from the UK know then as Fire Engines… and if there was a tower block then thye would send a ladder to the block wouldn’t they … the general public wouldn’t say could you please send a fire lorry to a fire … they would say we need the fire brigade… As for an Air Accident unless it was on the public highway it would be dealt with by the airport fire service …
I’ve never been to Oz but do know that firstly they call tractor units Prime Movers there because road trains were generally pulled by rigids so Prime Movers not tractor units.However the name erroneously stuck after the general change.As for pulling a semi trailer with a tractor unit using a dolly which you seem to be describing why ?.While if you mean using a drawbar coupling on a unit to couple up to an A frame trailer that’s still a tractor unit not a Prime Mover unless you remove the fifth wheel and fit a ballast box in its place.However they are all types of …truck driven by …truckies ?.
As for fire brigade terminology as I said a fire engine or a pump or a tower or refinery or aircraft tenders are all types of fire …trucks not lorries.Especially when ordering the chassis to build any of them on.IE in the first instance it’s an enquiry for a fire truck chassis not a fire engine,let alone fire lorry,chassis.
While Commercial Motor at least changed its classified used vehicle pages title from Vehicles to Trucks around the late 1980’s for some reason.
well in7 years of living in Australia, and doing joint road checks with the RMS around the Dubbo area … no road trains are pulled by Rigid trucks … you really need to do some proper research …
Lorry reminds me of tonka toys ,So i use truck.
discoman:
Carryfast:
I’ve never been to Oz but do know that firstly they call tractor units Prime Movers there because road trains were generally pulled by rigids so Prime Movers not tractor units.However the name erroneously stuck after the general change.well in7 years of living in Australia, and doing joint road checks with the RMS around the Dubbo area … no road trains are pulled by Rigid trucks … you really need to do some proper research …
That’s a Prime Mover pulling a road train.
So is this.
youtube.com/watch?v=srmGJF-mzHo
That’s a tractor unit pulling a road train.
youtube.com/watch?v=4nQLxIO5SF4
All being types of …truck not lorries.
