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Trucks: Hard Work and Wild Fun

trucks vehicles of various sizes and configurations meant for the transportation of cargo pickup truck a vehicle with a small cargo bed and low sides meant for light-duty personal or small business transport monster truck a pickup truck or other vehicle modified with extra large tires and suspension meant for racing and exhibition entertainment semitruck a large industrial truck consisting of a cab and semitrailer intended for hauling large quantities of goods over long distances

What are people without their stuff? They are people who will quickly be looking for stuff to replace the stuff they used to have. If an average household from 1900 and one from 2000 were compared in a bar graph, the amount of stuff piled on the 2000 side would be several magnitudes larger than the one on the 1900 side. Even if the stuff inside the garages was all that was measured . . . wait . . . garages didn’t exist in 1900. Well, there you have it.

Trucks revolutionized ground transportation in the twentieth century, making it possible to move large quantities of goods over long distances relatively quickly.

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