I agree with the semi name for the peterbilt,, if you've ever driven one,, u know its not a regular truck.
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I'm going to chime in here since I work at a Peterbilt dealership. It is considered all of the above semi, truck, tractor and I guess a rig, but proper is tractor. And its spelled bilt and not built.

 

Thanks for the opinions guys. I guess I am about the only one that calls them a pickup. That came from when I was on the sheriff's office. When dispatch gave out a call on a truck, I had to ask if they meant a pickup or a tractor trailer. Most of the time they meant a semi truck. I finally got them to say to look for a pickup truck. I think that the pickup thing is regional. Here in the midwest (kansas, colorado, nebraska) most say pickup. That is to differentiate grain trucks from pickups. Make sense?

 

Kinda like the whole soda, pop, coke thing. Very regional.

Took me a while to get used to it. Up north we use soda, down here they use coke. You tell somebody you want a coke and they ask what kind.

 

lol,, I spent the past few years in Miami,, u tell someone u want coke down there,,, they ask how much,, lol

 

I just call it the diesel, easier and sounds better,lol

 

I have friends that live in MN and they say Pop, im Texan and say Coke. i have noticed that the older generations 60+ tend to say Soda Water though.

to me a Peterbilt is an eighteen wheeler, big rig, tractor as in tractor trailer, semi, semi rig. not a truck or pickup.

A Dodge Ram (or simular) is a pickup, pickup truck, truck, rig (but not big rig) the one i use the most is truck but i do use them all interchangably

 

My ladyfriend has several pet names for my ....

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