Alphabetical Search A-Z
Search alphabetically through our trucker terminology and legal definitions below.
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A
- Accident reconstruction
- Accident reconstructionist
- Air brake system
- Air ride suspension
- Appeal
- Anti-lock brake system (ABS)
- Arbitration
- Axle
B
- Backhaul
- Big rig
- Blind spot / No zone
- Black box
- Bobtail
- Bridge formula
- Bulk freight
C
- Cab
- Cargo
- Cargo securement
- Chassis
- Claim
- Class 1-8 trucks
- Collision
- Common carrier
- Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)
- Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV)
- Comparative fault
- Compensatory damages
- Compliance
- Container
- Contract carrier
D
- Deadhead
- Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Deposition
- Dispatcher
- Discovery
- Distracted driving
- Doubles
- Drop and hook
- Dry van
- Dump truck
E
- Eighteen Wheeler / 18-Wheeler
- Electronic control module (ECM)
- Electronic logging device (ELD)
- Event data recorder (EDR)
- Expert witness
F
- Federal Highway Administration
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR)
- Fifth wheel
- Flatbed
- Fleet
- Fleet management
- Forensics
- Freight
- Fuel system
G
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Gross combination weight (GCW)
- Gross vehicle weight (GVW)
- Gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR)
H
- Hazmat (Hazardous materials)
- Heavy duty trucks
- Height limit
- Highway
- Hours of service
I
- Impact
- Independent contractor
- Inspection
- Insurance adjuster
- Interstate
- Intrastate
J
- Jackknife
K
- Kingpin
L
- Length limit
- Light duty trucks
- Load
- Load shift
- Logistics
- Logbook
- Long haul
- Lost wages
- Lowboy
M
- Mediation
- Medium duty trucks
- Medical expenses
- Merging
- Momentum
- Motor carrier
N
- National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
- Negligence
- Negligence per se
O
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Oversteer
- Oversize
- Overweight
P
- Pain and suffering
- Payload
- Permit
- Personal injury lawyers
- Photogrammetry
- Pickup and delivery (P&D)
- Placard
- Property damage
- Punitive damages
R
- Receiver
- Reefer (Refrigerated trailer)
- Relay
- Respondeat superior
- Rollover
- Routes
S
- Safety rating
- Semi truck / Semi-truck
- Semi-trailer
- Shipper
- Skidmark
- Sleeper
- Straight truck
T
- Tanker
- Team drivers
- Telematics
- Tie down
- Tire blowout
- Tow truck
- Tractor
- Tractor-trailer
- Trailer
- Transmission
- Trial
- Trucking companies
- Turnpike
U
- Understeer
- Underride accident
V
- Vicarious liability
W
- Weight limit
- Width limit
Y
- Yaw mark