A road train consisting of a truck (1) and one or more trailers (2, 3) where the path of the truck (1) is determined by the driver with a steering wheel which controls the angles of the front wheels of the truck relative to the longitudinal axis of the truck, where each trailer has at least two wheels located near its front and at least two wheels located near its rear, where the front of the trailer is connected to the truck or forward trailer by means of a drawbar, where all trailer wheels are positively steered so that a slave reference point located on the longitudinal axis of the trailer is made to be tangential to a master path which is the locus of a master reference point located on the longitudinal axis of the truck. r~k


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    Title :

    Improved Articulated Vehicles


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2023-10-05


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge



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