The fifth-wheel coupling provides the link between a semi-trailer and the towing truck, tractor unit, leading trailer or dolly. The coupling consists of...

feet as are used under a fifth wheel skid plate. The towing vehicle has a wide coupling plate known as a fifth-wheel coupling bolted onto its chassis,...

car or other vehicle. The term is also used to refer to part of a fifth wheel coupling apparatus for a semi and its trailer or other load. Originally, with...

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sized rigid truck. The most common trailer attachment system is a fifth-wheel coupling, allowing a rapid shift between trailers performing different functions...

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agriculture tires, bigger suspensions, drawbar coupling, tow hitch, three point hitch and fifth wheel coupling. With growing farm land size, operators and...

used. This has one or two axles, a fifth-wheel coupling for the rear trailer, and a tongue with a ring-hitch coupling for the forward trailer. Individual...

These may be joined by a chain, rope, bar, hitch, three-point, fifth wheel, coupling, drawbar, integrated platform, or other means of keeping the objects...

part) – Main pivot in a vehicle's steering mechanism, or part of the fifth wheel coupling for a semi truck R-clip – Type of fastener made of a springy material...

Look up fifth wheel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fifth wheel is a coupling that provides a link between the trailer and a truck (or a tractor...

could be hauled on roads by a tractor unit and then by way of a fifth wheel coupling, operate in a unit train on railway lines. The RoadRailer system...

flatbed. A fifth-wheel coupling is also referred to as a kingpin hitch and is a smaller version of the semi-trailer "fifth wheel". Though a fifth wheel and a...

lead trailer with a towing hitch such as a Ringfeder coupling affixed to it at the rear. A fifth wheel dolly is then affixed to the hitch allowing another...

drawbar that attaches to the fifth wheel coupling on the rear of a prime mover to distribute the mass on the fifth wheel on the dolly between the prime mover...

gearbox utilizes a computer together with a load-sensing system on the fifth-wheel coupling to estimate the proper gear that the truck must be in. For example...

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over a significant distance, and is connected to the trailer with a fifth wheel coupling. In England, this type of "tractor" is often called an "artic cab"...

medium duty truck equipped with a special in-box hitch called a fifth wheel coupling. Part of the trailer body extends over the truck bed, shortening...

most commercial car carrier trailers attach to the tractor using a fifth wheel coupling. Trailers can either be enclosed, possessing walls like a conventional...

campervans, coaches, caravans (also known as travel trailers and campers), fifth-wheel trailers, popup campers, and truck campers. Typical amenities of an RV...

rear chassis of the tractor instead of the fifth wheel coupling. Earlier heavy haulers unmounted the fifth wheel and used merely a piece or two of heavy...

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engine, or electric motor usually with an automatic transmission. A fifth-wheel coupling with an integrated lifting mechanism allows the semi-trailer's legs...

the first-known production travel trailer in the world to use a fifth wheel coupling. The Curtiss Aerocar was designed on aircraft principles using lightweight...

device was a crane, which clipped on to an articulated tractor unit's fifth wheel coupling. Popular in the seventies and eighties, they were cheap to buy (compared...

States Army Air Force (USAAF), several MT-Tug units were built with a fifth-wheel coupling on the cargo floor, for various Fruehauf trailers, and loaded with...

A state-of-the-art semi-trailer used to haul horses. Large trailers are attached with a fifth-wheel coupling....

with hydraulic dump trailers, bulk tanker trailers, and automatic fifth-wheel couplings among their more than one thousand patents, including the shipping...