As we all know, container truck is a kind of specific and professional transportation vehicle which is widely used to carry containers, and the containers are usually carried by common ordinary trucks because the load capacity of the containers is usually pretty small, and the weight of them is usually not too heavy. From the 1960s, with the rapid development of the container transportation industries, countries in the world were all devoted to researching as well as developing the specific and professional vehicles which were widely used to transport the containers. Besides, the size and specification of the carrying body of container trucks were seriously and strictly confirmed and decided by the normal size and specification of standard containers, and the container trucks were usually equipped with the twist lock devices which were used to fix and make four parts in the bottom of containers firm and stable.
Moreover, the container trucks usually adopt the combination form of the automobiles, and this kind of combination form contains the semi-hanging, the full hanging and the double hanging type. Among them, the species of the semi-hanging type are the commonest. And the double hanging automobiles which compose the container trucks can be divided into two types, such as the flat type and the skeleton type. And the carrying body of the flat types container trucks is the flat cargo platform, which can be used to carry common long and large cargo. The using rate of this kind of container truck is usually very high and the carrying body of the skeleton types container trucks is the chassis skeleton without flat cargo platform. When the containers are carried into the container trucks and are also fixed by the twist lock devices, then they will form the strength members of the semi-hanging automobiles. Also, this kind of skeleton types semi-hanging automobile is only specially used to carry and transport specific containers.
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