Farm Truck
{{Globalize, date=July 2011 A farm truck is a vehicle designated for agricultural use, and may include anything from small pick-up trucks or even vehicles fashioned out of old parts, to class 8 eighteen-wheeler trucks. Some states in the United States have a special registration for farm trucks that includes restrictions such as distance the vehicle may travel from the farm. Asia In Asia, farm truck generally refers to small four-wheel trucks or transporters many times manufactured in artisanal or small rural and peri-urban workshops) and in larger factories in developing countries of Asia. They can be classified as an intermediate means of transport. They usually consist of simple rail-type frames, with axles, brakes and steering assemblies cobbled from new or second-hand vehicular spare parts and are generally powered by single-cylinder diesel and petrol engines. Farm trucks of Thailand In Thailand, such trucks are known as ''rot i-taen'' ( th, รถอีแต๋น). Manuf ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Pick-up Truck
A pickup truck or pickup is a light-duty truck that has an enclosed cabin, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof (this cargo bed back end sometimes consists of a tailgate and removable covering). In Australia and New Zealand, both pickups and coupé utilities are called utes, short for utility vehicle. In South Africa, people of all language groups use the term ''bakkie'', a diminutive of ''bak'', Afrikaans for "basket". Once a work or farming tool with few creature comforts, in the 1950s U.S. consumers began purchasing pickups for lifestyle reasons, and by the 1990s, less than 15% of owners reported use in work as the pickup truck's primary purpose. In North America, the pickup is mostly used as a passenger car and accounts for about 18% of total vehicles sold in the United States. Full-sized pickups and SUVs are an important source of revenue for major car manufacturers such as GM, Ford, and Stellantis, accounting for more th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Intermediate Means Of Transport
Intermediate may refer to: * Intermediate 1 or Intermediate 2, educational qualifications in Scotland * Intermediate (anatomy), the relative location of an anatomical structure lying between two other structures: see Anatomical terms of location * Intermediate Edison Screw, a system of light bulb connectors * Intermediate goods, goods used to produce other goods * Middle school, also known as ''intermediate school'' * Intermediate Examination, standardized post-secondary exams in the Indian Subcontinent, also known as the Higher Secondary Examination * In chemistry, a reaction intermediate is a reaction product that serves as a precursor for other reactions * A reactive intermediate is a highly reactive reaction intermediate, hence usually short-lived * Intermediate car, an automobile size classification * Intermediate cartridge, a type of firearms cartridge * Intermediate composition, a geological classification of the mineral composition of a rock, between mafic and felsic * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Songthaew
A songthaew ( th, สองแถว, , two rows, , ; lo, ສອງແຖວ, ; ms, dua baris) is a passenger vehicle in Thailand and Laos adapted from a pick-up or a larger truck and used as a share taxi or bus. Overview The songthaew takes its name from the two bench seats fixed along either side of the back of the truck; in some vehicles a third bench is put down the middle of the seating area. Additionally a roof is fitted over the rear of the vehicle, to which curtains and plastic sheeting to keep out rain may be attached. Some vehicles have roofs high enough to accommodate standing passengers within the vehicle. More typically, standing passengers occupy a platform attached to the rear. In Chiang Mai and its surroundings, locals may call them ''rot si daeng'' (literally "car red" – a reference to their most common colour in the area, Thai รถสีแดง), ''rot daeng'', or sometimes ''si rot''. The Isuzu Faster and Toyota Hilux are example models of songthae ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Jugaad
''Jugaaḍ'' (or "Jugaaṛ") is a colloquial Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan word, which refers to a non-conventional, frugal innovation, often termed a "life hack, hack". It could also refer to an innovative fix or a simple work-around, a solution that bends the rules, or a resource that can be used in such a way. It is also often used to signify creativity: to make existing things work, or to create new things with meager resources. Jugaad is increasingly accepted as a management technique and is recognized all over the world as an acceptable form of frugal engineering at peak. Companies in Southeast Asia are adopting jugaad as a practise to reduce research and development costs. Jugaad also applies to any kind of creative and out-of-the-box thinking or life hacking, life hacks that maximize resources for a company and its stakeholders. According to author and professor Jaideep Prabhu, ''jugaad'' is an "important way out of the current economic crisis in developed economies ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Indo-Aryan Languages
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. Moreover, apart from the Indian subcontinent, large immigrant and expatriate Indo-Aryan–speaking communities live in Northwestern Europe, Western Asia, North America, the Caribbean, Southeast Africa, Polynesia and Australia, along with several million speakers of Romani languages primarily concentrated in Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. There are over 200 known Indo-Aryan languages. Modern Indo-Aryan languages descend from Old Indo-Aryan languages such as early Vedic Sanskrit, through Middle Indo-Aryan languages (or Prakrits). The largest such languages in terms of First language, first-speakers are Hindustani language, Hindi–Urdu (),Standard Hindi firs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
North India
North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central Asia. The term North India has varying definitions. The Ministry of Home Affairs in its Northern Zonal Council Administrative division included the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan and Union Territories of Chandigarh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The Ministry of Culture in its ''North Culture Zone'' includes the state of Uttarakhand but excludes Delhi whereas the Geological Survey of India includes Uttar Pradesh and Delhi but excludes Rajasthan and Chandigarh. Other states sometimes included are Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. North India has been the historical centre of the Mughal Empire, the Delhi Sultanate and the British Indian Empire. It has a diverse culture, and includ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Peter Rehra
Peter rehra, ਪੀਟਰ ਰੇਹੜਾ is a homemade jugaad vehicle used in rural Punjab and other North Indian states. It is made by assembling a diesel engine,(mostly meant for pumping water), removing the pumpset assembly from it, and joining it with a framework made steel angles and wooden planks, and finally completing it all by putting four movable wheels, two are steerable (like in all vehicles) and the two rear ones directly attached to the engine via a primitive gear-assembly. It is, of course, not meant for high-performance, but for sheer-economy, as it is easily able to carry twenty to twenty-five adults (plus their luggage), but mostly cannot move at more than 25 km/h. There has been instances when police themselves used this to carry a whole Maruti 800 (which they could not drive out of court orders) Though it is not technically recognized by the Government as a legal-vehicle, its use is quite common, mainly due to the high demand for public transport and lac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Mini Truck
Mini truck, also called a micro-truck, are tiny but practical light truck Light truck or light-duty truck is a US classification for vehicles with a gross vehicle weight up to and a payload capacity up to 4,000 pounds (1,815 kg). Similar goods vehicle classes in the European Union, Canada, Australia, and New Zealan ...s, available in RWD or 4WD version, originally built to satisfy the Japanese '' keijidōsha'' (軽自動車) statutory class of light vehicles. Generally they fall under sub 1000cc engine category. These vehicles find their use in intra-city low tonnage cargo delivery, like postal and courier services or home delivery of appliances from dealer to the customer i.e. light loads over short distances. Worldwide usage :* Mini Trucks in Japan :* Mini Trucks in India References {{reflist External links Tata Ace Mini TrucksTata Ace was India's first mini truck also called as Chota hathi in IndiaMini-truck state lawsSummary of Mini-truck Laws in US States. Note the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |