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TRUCK
A truck is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. Unlike automobiles, which frequently have a unibody structure, most trucks (with the exclusion of the car-like minivan) are built around a strong frame called a chassis. They come in all sizes, from the automobile-sized pickup truck to towering off-road mining trucks or heavy highway semi-trailers.
The term is most regularly used in American English and Australian English to refer to what earlier was called a motor truck, and in British English is often called a lorry, a Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV), or a wagon (sometimes spelled waggon). This type of truck is a motor vehicle designed to carry goods, with a cab and a tray or compartment for carrying goods. Other languages have loanwords based on these terms, such as the Malay lori.
In Australia and New Zealand a small truck with an open backside is called a ute (short for "utility vehicle").
Pantechnicon is a deserted British word for a furniture removal van. It was formerly coined in 1830 as the name of a craft shop or bazaar, in Motcomb Street in Belgravia, London; the name is Greek for "pertaining to all the arts or crafts". The shop soon closed down and the structure was bowed into a furniture warehouse, but the name was kept. Vehicles transporting furniture to and from the building, known as pantechnicon vans, soon came to be known simply as pantechnicons.
A Pantech truck or van is a word derivation of "pantechnicon" commonly currently used in Australia. A pantech is a truck and/or van with a luggage hull made of (or converted to) hard panels (i.e. for chilled freight, removal vans, etc).
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