{"id":95,"date":"2014-04-23T17:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2023-07-04T21:01:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T21:01:04","slug":"semi-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/trailer-rentals\/semi-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semi-trailer<\/p>\n<p>A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. A large proportion of its weight is supported by a road tractor, by a detachable front axle assembly known as a dolly, or by the tail of another trailer. A semi-trailer is normally equipped with landing gear (legs which can be lowered) to support it when it is uncoupled.<\/p>\n<p>A road tractor coupled to a semi-trailer is often called a semi-trailer truck or semi, or in the UK an articulated lorry.<\/p>\n<p>In Australian English, the tractor unit is usually referred to as a prime-mover; and the combination of a prime-mover and trailer is known as a semi-trailer or semi. Semi-trailers with two trailer units are B-Doubles or road trains. A B-double consists of a prime mover towing two semi-trailers, where the first semi-trailer is connected to the prime mover by a fifth wheel coupling and the second semi-trailer is connected to the first semi-trailer by a fifth wheel coupling. A road train means a combination, other than a B-Double, consisting of a motor vehicle towing at least two trailers (counting as a single trailer a converter dolly supporting a semi-trailer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semi-trailer A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. A large proportion of its weight is supported by a road tractor, by a detachable front axle assembly known as a dolly, or by the tail of another trailer. A semi-trailer is normally equipped with landing gear (legs which can be lowered) to support it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/trailer-rentals\/semi-trailer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Semi-Trailer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trailer-rentals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expressgroup.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}