When I was in school, the wagons the pioneers used to settle the west were known as conestoga wagons. We even have a restaurant in my area that is called Conestogas, the main entrance and their logo is a horse drawn wagon
Not sure when the meaning of this changed in trucking, but these are now called conestogas
And these are known as covered wagons
And these are called curtain sides
If the last one is what you guys refer to as tilts, maybe it's because you have to tilt those side support bars to remove or install them for loading or unloading?
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Wow what a great reply, and so quick, even better than that I have been proved correct because as I said that is what I thought they were named.
To answer your own questions, the one you call a covered wagon is not common here but if we called it anything I reckon it would be the same, a covered wagon. I am guessing that they might be for specific loads where no height is required, such as coils, possibly set in a v-shaped grove down the middle for safety.
The third one we call a curtainsider, just as you do. A tilt is similar but it has a removable roof with a tarp which can be pulled back for crane access, and side boards for load retention, though strictly speaking to be legal the load must have ratchet straps too. But the curtains don't normally move on a rail as curtainsiders do and are often in two parts. They have eyes all along the edges which fit over metal hoops on the trailer so that a plastic coated wire can be passed through and customs sealed at the rear. Less useful nowadays since the whole of the European Union has no customs between states. That used to include Great Britain too 'till the disaster they call Brexit happened in 2020 after a flawed referendum in 2016. The name tilt is far older than that, and one theory is that it goes back 800 years when some bloke with a trailer built a frame over it to protect vulnerable goods, but that is the theory, nothing to do with tilting poles though.
I think I posted a picture of a tilt somewhere else on this forum. I'll see if I can find it.
Thanks again, I'm now off over to the otherside to collect the bragging rights.
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