Back In Time
by Kathy Bassett
Title
Back In Time
Artist
Kathy Bassett
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Digital Art
Description
A hot day for a hot truck - would love to have driven this one away !
FIFTH place out of over 1,000 entries in Green With Envy contest!!!
Almost all trucks share a common construction: they are made of a chassis, a cab, an area for placing cargo or equipment, axles, suspension and roadwheels, an engine and a drivetrain. Pneumatic, hydraulic, water, and electrical systems may also be identified. Many also tow one or more trailers or semi-trailers.
CabThe cab is an enclosed space where the driver is seated. A "sleeper" is a compartment attached to the cab where the driver can rest while not driving, sometimes seen in semi-trailer trucks.There are several possible cab configurations:"Cab over engine" (COE) or "flat nose"; where the driver is seated above the front axle and the engine. This design is almost ubiquitous in Europe, where overall truck lengths are strictly regulated, but also widely used in the rest of the world as well. They were common in North America, but lost prominence when permitted length was extended in the early 1980s. To reach the engine, the whole cab tilts forward, earning this design the name of "tilt-cab". This type of cab is especially suited to the delivery conditions in Europe where many roads follow the layout of much more ancient path, and trackways which require the additional turning capability given by the short wheelbase of the cab over engine type. The COE design was invented by Viktor Schreckengost.Conventional cabs are the most common in North America and Australia, and are known in the UK as "American cabs" and in the Netherlands as "torpedo cabs". The driver is seated behind the engine, as in most passenger cars or pickup trucks. Conventionals are further divided into large car and aerodynamic designs. A "large car" or "long nose" is a conventional truck with a long (6-to-8-foot or 1.8-to-2.4 m or more) hood. "Aerodynamic" cabs are very streamlined, with a sloped hood and other features to lower drag.Cab beside engine designs also exist, but are rather rare and are mainly used inside shipping yards, or other specialist uses that require the vehicle to carry long loads such as pipes, metal rods, flat iron and other construction materials. This type is often custom made from a regular cabover truck that gets the upper half of its cab removed on the passenger side and replaced by an extended section of the bed.A further step from this is the side loading forklift that can be described as a specially fabricated vehicle with the same properties as a truck of this type, in addition to the ability to pick up its own load.
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August 11th, 2013
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Comments (12)
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Kathy Bassett
Thank you for featuring Back In Time in your Weekly FUN For ALL Mediums group, Chrisann!
JOHN TELFER
Kathy, Beautifully taken as someone that loves taking Classic Car photos and Hood Ornaments this is perfectly captured grabbing that great front grill and being able to see those great looking white wall tires and the full length of this great looking GMC ick-Up Truck, great details, fav, voted and google promoted, selected as my CAT for MOUSE pick of the day
Kathy Bassett replied:
That's a waterfall of praise! Thank you, John! Your collection is groovy too! Appreciate the fvg and CAT and MOUSE!!