Trucks on the Road 4

Parts of a Truck 6
Kinds of Trucks 10
Glossary 22
To Learn More 23
Index 24
Big trucks and
small trucks
drive down
the road.
Trucks have a
cab. The driver
sits in the cab.
Trucks have
a place for
cargo. The
cargo in this
pickup truck
is hay.
Some very big
trucks are
called big rigs.
This big rig
has 18 wheels.
This dump
truck can carry
big rocks or dirt.
This flatbed
truck can
carry another
truck.
This logging
truck can
carry a big
load of logs.
This tanker
truck can
carry milk.
This monster
truck can race
other trucks.
On your marks,
get set, go!
Glossary
big rig–a very big truck that
pulls
a trailer place where the driver
cab–the
sits in
a truck
cargo–loads carried by trucks,
ships,
trains, or planestruck with an
dump truck–a
open
body
flatbedthat can betruck
truck–a tilted that
to empty
pulls
its
a load
flat trailertruck–a truck that
logging
carries
monster logs
truck–a pickup truck
that has
very
pickupbigtruck–a
wheels truck with an
open
body
tanker and small sides
truck–a truck that carries
liquids in a tank
To Learn More
AT THE LIBRARY
Coffelt, Nancy. Pug in a Truck. New York:
Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Collicutt, Paul. This Truck. New York:

Farrar
Straus Giroux, 2004.

Gordon, David. The Three Little Rigs. New

York: Laura Geringer, 2005.
ON THE WEB
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Index
big rig, 10
cab, 6
cargo, 8
dirt, 12
driver, 6
dump truck, 12
flatbed truck, 14
hay, 8
logging truck, 16
logs, 16
milk, 18
monster truck, 20
pickup truck, 8
tanker truck, 18
The images in this book are reproduced through the courtesy of: Brad Sauter, front
wheels, 10
cover; Shaun Lowe,
p. 5; Benn Mitchell/Getty Images, p. 7; Kanwarjit Singh Boparai, p. 9; Dennis
MacDonald/Age fotostock,
p. 11; David R. Frazier Photolibrary, Inc/Alamy, p. 13; Brad Sauter, p. 15; Jeff
Smith/Alamy, p. 17;
Frances Twitty, p. 19; Kanwarjit Singh Boparai, p. 21.