Kingpin and fifth wheel
An 18 wheeler consists of a tractor (meaning something that pulls) and a trailer (meaning something that follows.) A semi tractor-trailer rig has a trailer that sits on top of the frame of the tractor on a coupling device called a "fifth wheel." The tractor has ten wheels with two on the front axle and four on each drive axle in the rear. The trailer has two axles with 4 wheels each. The tractor and trailer together are informally called a rig. Is that what you were after?
The prefix "semi-" means "half", and the standard tractor-trailer articulated vehicle is called a "semi" because of the trailers they pull. A "full" trailer has wheels in the front and back, like a railway car, and connects to the tractor from the front. A "semi-trailer" (or, essentially, "half-trailer") only has wheels in the back, and the front sits over the back wheels of the tractor pulling it.
The tractor weighs 20,000 pounds, the trailer weighs whatever it weighs, and the maximum weight of a loaded tractor trailer with one trailer is 80,000 pounds.
tractor trailer
I would have to say no. I have a tractor that is insured the only thing that is insured is just that the tractor (fire theft etc). Although You can get your trailer insured just as you can an ATV horse trailer car truck if you had a policy for it. your tractor insurance will not help with the trailer.
semi truck, or semi tractor trailer, and 18 wheeler.
Semi or Tractor Trailer-semi.
Depends on what type of tractor and trailer you had in mind. For a farm tractor pulling a trailer, it's usually a pintle on the tractor which is run through a clevice on the trailer. For road going vehicles, the fifth wheel trailers are often used, where a trailer kingpin will be inserted and locked into a fifth wheel on the vehicle. In the case of an 18 wheeler, air lines will connect from the tractor to the trailer to operate the trailer's air brake system.
A converter gear or dolly is a coupling device of one or two axles and a fifth wheel by which a semi-trailer can be coupled to the rear of a tractor-trailer combination forming a double bottom rig.
That would be a tractor and trailer that has a total of 18 wheels, 10 on the tractor and 8 on the trailer.
this is a standard trailer pulled behind a tractor truck wiyj8 wheels at the back of the unit
The most common brakes on a tractor trailer are the s-cam brakes