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A fact from Denby Eco-Link appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 December 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that with his 60 tonne 25.25 m long Denby Eco-Link super lorry, Dick Denby of Denby Transport, Lincoln, hopes to challenge the government prohibition of most types of Longer Heavier Vehicles from the roads of the United Kingdom? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/December.

Do they sometines refer to these rigs as "turnpike trains" or "tractor-trains"?--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 21:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Turnpike-train is likely to mean nothing in Britain nowadays (see Toll roads in England). Tractor-train might mean something to Brits who might think it a neologism of road train and tractor trailor/road tractor, but I've never seen it used yet. Its lorries or trucks (and still HGVs) in Britain, that's about it, hence the mainstream media's adoption of the unimaginative 'super lorry' or the arguably not applicable 'road train'. LHV is the official British term for all the larger configurations considered, and B-Double/Train as the term of art used elsewhere (but not for proper road trains) seems to have been adopted in the British trade press for this vehicle. MickMacNee (talk) 00:00, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hardly anyone calls the power unit of an articulated truck the "tractor" here - if you said the word to someone out of context they would automatically assume an agricultural tractor instead, and probably sigh in imagined exasperation at the idea of being stuck behind one pulling not one but two trailers on a country back-route. More likely it'd be a double-trailer (maybe "twin artic" in this case) or some other localised neologism. If it was limited to certain roads, then perhaps "trunk lorry" or the like (as motorways and certain major strategic non-motorway roads are classed as "trunk routes"). 193.63.174.211 (talk) 08:44, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

...has the judgement on this been cleared up yet? I'm uncertain whose side to be on based on the information here ;) 193.63.174.211 (talk) 08:45, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]