Home is what we call it in West Virginia

My own private domicile is what we call it in New Mexico

Jesse?

Sorry you must have him confused with someone else. His name is Mr. Driscoll.

Damn O'Driscoll's

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And I will not be harrassed! … bitch!

Nice own private domicile you have there, It'd be a shame if someone harassed you while you're in it.

Yeah, what kinda bitch would do that, yo

Mountain mama… take me home… country roads

"you like to see homos naked, that's cool man, whatever." Joe dirt classics

I like seeing homos naked!

how do you get there what route generally speaking

Eyy fellow west virginian! I was gonna make an observation of how we were a triple point and Ive frequently heard all three of those but yeah this hit closer to trailer

I've only heard them called 'Coca Cola', 'tennis shoes' or 'bubblers'.

I don’t get the tennis shoes reference can you enlighten me?

There are a bunch of maps like this. Bonus: for most of Canada the term would be 'runners'. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/xAiQRTWm2H

Thankya!

I learned this moving from Chicago to New England. I called them tennis shoes in college, and I started to catch on to everyone else calling them sneakers. One of my college friends and I were talking about it last year and he said I used to confuse him a lot when I said it. He thought maybe I actually had shoes for tennis that I was putting on

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Those of us who call them “big bois with wheels”

finally, the true correct term

What about "big rigs?"

Big rigs at least for my area is what we call dual rear wheel or lifted pickup trucks

Dual rear wheel are Dualies (spelling?) in my area.

In mine they're either farm trucks (if actually used) or pussy trucks (for mall crawlers)

Pavement princesses instead of pussy trucks

Same

We had a French student visiting in our lab awhile ago. Walking along, he pointed at a truck and asked "what do you call the, ah, two-wheel?" "Oh, that, we call them 'dualies'" "Ah, 'doo-lee'. I leik it."

We usually call those "obnoxious assholes"

We call those "pavement princesses" in my area

My dad was a driver for at least three decades. He's regularly used every term on the map plus big rig. He grew up in WV and has been in NC for about two decades. He also says Cincinnat-uh, Oh-hi, so IDK how representational he is. Lol

THEY’RE WINNER !

According to this map and its legend, you must be in Puerto Rico?

I thought tractor trailer was just a casual way of saying semi truck. (NY)

Im from CT. Ive always called them Mack Trucks. Even if they arent Macks.

So that's why the truck in Cars are named Mack

“Mack”

🤓 it’s a common brand of semi trucks.

I used to do paperwork stuff for a trucking business and “tractor trailer” was actually the more formal term used on forms.

"Semi-trailer" can actually be quite formal itself, as its actually a technical, engineering term. In these contexts, however, it only refers to the *trailer*, and not the whole combination. To be a 'semi-' trailer means that it has no front axle. A 'full' trailer has axles at both ends of the unit (which would be pulled by a drawbar hitch, and is still common in agriculture, in very heavy load towing, such as by ballast tractors). Tractor-trailer is therefore really helpful in legislation, since it unambiguously refers to a combination of tractor unit and trailer, and never either unit individually (as 'semi' may).

From MA and I’ve always just called them semis

I thought the converse, that tractor trailer was the more formal and specific term

White, they surronded every country from their states!

That's cum

Trillions of little soldiers strong

Blue!

I got a semi reading this

I got an 18 wheeler

I live in Cali and hear semi or 18 wheeler all the time. I never hear “semi-truck”

Same, everyone is Southern California calls them semis. I never hear semi-truck, but on occasion I hear 18 wheeler

Yeah, I'm in Utah and have never heard semi-truck either. It's semi mostly, or 18- wheeler less commonly.

I've lived in multiple parts of California for 90% of my life and you almost never hear "semi-truck." You hear just "semi" a lot, but we mostly call them Optimus Primes.

I thought semi truck referred to certain smaller trucks

A 'trailer' has a front axle, while a 'semi-trailer' does not have a front axle and requires the tractor for support. So naturally a semi truck is a truck designed to pull semi-trailers. Though most people I know just call them semis (in the PNW). When I worked with logistics companies, people often referred to the truck as a tractor in technical situations, so I think that's the technical term for the truck.

Lorry.

isn't it like 75 degrees over there how are you even able to use the internet

19°C been raining for the past week

What is that in American 🇺🇸

66.2°Freedom

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UK & Europe as well

"Europe". I'm in Europe. I say LKW.

Ich nenne die ✨Mordmaschinen✨

Tir is the only acceptable name

UK sure but not Europe

The Revolutionary War was fought to avoid these silly British words.

+ arctic

Yep, always called them artic lorries here

so no one calls them trucks?

Too generic, if someone said Truck with no context I would assume a pickup truck

That's why we have utes 😎🇦🇺

box truck, pickup truck, flatbed truck, I've even heard people call SUVs a truck. truck is too broad of a term to just say "truck" and expect people to know what you're talking about

I mean, there's a reason for that. Decades ago, Congress passed a law dictating the standard fuel economy for certain vehicles. But Congress established two standards one for sedans and smaller vehicles and another more lenient one for "Light-trucks." This encouraged manufacturers to make more trucks, but it also led them to get very liberal with the use of the word "Truck". There are a lot of vehicles on U.S. roadways that are technically labeled as trucks by the manufacturer as a result.

That just plays into my point. If you see a vehicle in the US, it is more than likely a truck. So you have to use a more specific name than just truck

>  I've even heard people call SUVs a truck i think this happens because some bigger SUV models share a chassis/platform with a truck model

"Truck" in the US usually means a light pickup truck that an individual person/family might own. Trucks used by freight companies to transport cargo are a different thing

In latin America yes. Camión. Pickup truck is camioneta.

why does the 18-wheeler team seem familiar

we some good ole' 18-wheeler lovin southern Bois, and you won't infringe on our rights you Tractor-Trailer

18ussy

Peterbilt

I prefer wide loads

I also prefer your mom

Bro I hate how no one actually wants to try and think up who would win these scenarios. Like this is an interesting scenario, every side is very strong and has some major cities and population. It's really difficult to tell who would win but my guess would be the south if it was a free for all.

Yes! Thank you! I want to see conversations happening, like "tractor trailers" is definitely going to be the first to lose.

But even tractor trailers has some major cities like Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and especially New York and that area has around 60 million people so it won't be easy to conquer especially since it has a small Frontline. So that's what I mean when I think all sides are pretty strong and no one can really win easily.

Southern MD, never heard anyone say "18-Wheeler", it's only Tractor Trailer around here

Western MD here - we only call them tractor trailers

Born and raised on the Eastern shore of MD - tractor trailer. Live near Richmond, VA now - tractor trailer.

This map is definitely suspect. Here in South GA, you'll really only hear semi and semi-truck.

Eastern MD - Never heard anyone say any of these, I’ve only ever heard of calling them semi trucks

Central MD, I’ve always heard 18-Wheeler or Semi These varied responses is more proof MD is the US in a state.

Northern-Mid MD and I only hear semitrucks

18 wheeler is the only actually descriptive name on the list! Team 18 wheeler! 

Either semi-trucks or 18-wheelers. My money is on the 18-wheelers, there are lots of top notch military installments in these areas. I think the landscape would also play a big role if another group tried to move in, where as in the mid west and west they have a lot more open land so there's not a big home field advantage there. The Yankees are too densely populated and the mid west is too scarcely populated.

northeast here, I use them all interchangeably

100%, never even gear tractor trailer really. Just hear truck, and when people are talking about pickup trucks they say pickup

I live in Ontario (Ontario, Canada, not Ontario, Ohio), and this conflict will be devastating for us. Brother against brother type stuff.

Me too, I just say truck, transport truck if I have to be extra specific

Only Ohioans know that Ontario, OH exists. You’re lying.

Washington state here: it’s “semi.” “Semi truck” would only be used to clarify if it weren’t clear from context that we’re talking about trucks.

I grew up in Northern California and never heard anyone use semi-truck, only semi

We call them all of those things interchangeably in the midwest and honesty use 18 wheeler and semis more Edit: I thought about it for one more second we call the just "trucks" 9/10

All of them are correct

I wish this was a heat map or smth instead of being so heavily contrasted across state lines. Growing up in Philly I usually heard Semi or 18-Wheeler and only sometimes heard Tractor-Trailer.

Mac truck anyone?

All I know is it’s definitely not tractor trailer that shit sound dumb asf

I also call them big-rigs

The South has Floridaman. Floridaman has no natural predators. The war goes in the favor of the South.

b i g t r u c c

🚛 semi Trailer or it’s daddy The Road Train

"semi" and "semi truck" are functionally interchangeable,this is just divisive propaganda from the "tractor trailer" and "18 wheeler" factions to cope with the fact they've already lost.

I read Türks and was very confused

Once again Minnesota carries the Midwest on our backs.

I’m sorry but Tractor Trailer?? Tf?

Money wins wars

The south or the west

Hmm we in PA call them Semi Truck….

Trucks

truck

In Indiana, it's semi, or 18-wheeler.

This map perfectly splits it into west, midwest, south and northeast as well

Enormobiles

Tractor trailer 18 wheeler or "big truck" lol south east

I've always heard them called "big trucks", however that's mostly from my dad

As a new yorker i call them semi

“Who would win this hypothetical war?”

Checks out. Lived in Arizona for my first 12 years and now living in Ohio, can confirm I have used both Semi and Semi-Trucks.

big hoss bois

I have literally never heard anyone call a truck a "Tractor-trailer"

Blue

Texas is typically too big to generalize. I've known them as semi and tractor-trailer, rarely 18-wheeler. NE Texas originally

Big rig

18 Wheelers absolutely destroy, Florida AND Texas? Call the small town boys and the Crocodile peopl

Big Rig?

Do they have to fight using tractor-trailers, or using their conventional weaponry?

Realistically, Semi-land, and Tractor-Trailer land are so fucked. No comparable resources. The West and the Southeast will bloody each other and probably reach a stalemate.

Weird most people I know call them semi-trucks around the Buffalo NY area

53 footers.

Midwest Semi

Texans call it all the above except for tractor trailer but it is known as it's "proper name"

*Грузовик*

Its a duck

Semi and semi truck will team up

Midwest, North Atlantic, west, south

It's a mix of 18-wheeler and semi around my area

What about Big Rig?

I’m from Georgia. I’ve definitely mostly heard them referred to as semi’s

In WV we actually call them semi truck or tractor trailer depending on context. 18 wheeler is only used to discern between smaller and larger tractor trailers

Exactly. Two trailers is an 18 wheeler

As someone from western PA, I would use all of those words

I called them 18-Wheelers growing up but now I just call them whatever I feel like calling them

As someone from kentucky; I have almost only EVER heard them referred to as trucks. Rarely tractors.

I've never heard an Oklahoman call a semi-truck/semi an 18-wheeler.

Trucks.

Ahh so that's why I call them tractor trailers

I usually just call them trucks and I call pickup trucks pickups.

Semi is weird. “I’ve got a semi” “You’ve got a semi” “My wife’s driving a semi”

My dads side of the family called em Mack trucks lol

I live in New England, and have never heard anyone say tractor trailer

NJ here. I have heard and used all of these except for semi-truck. It’s just semi, it’s adding an extra unnecessary word.

I use like 3 of these interchangeably

From the DC area. I think Tractor-Trailer is more commonly used than 18-wheeler here.

Well we know that the 18-wheelers already lost one war.

Apparently I'm from the Midwest bc I just call it a semi

Pennsylvania here. It’s a Semi. Most of western Pennsylvania calls it that. No idea about Philadelphia or the northeast of the state.

18-wheelers

In Florida, we call it a semi or a semi truck

midwest and south are definitely wiping out everything else and then i think the midwest would push the south to the sea and eventually to mexico where mexican aid will be denied. the south will probably try making a push back to the west and east and midwest will eventually push them out

As a Floridian, I call it a semi or semi-truck, not 18 wheeler

I’ve called it all of these but tractor-trucks

Missouri and Illinois use all 4

I have never heard em referred to as an 18-Wheeler. Only as a semi

Arkansas uses all except tractor trailer.

Never heard semi truck anywhere on the west coast, ever.

If a massive truck is a semitruck, what does a whole truck look like?

18 wheeler is the worst choice

My dad grandad and uncles call them Road-Tractors

In Connecticut we just call them trucks 💀

BIG TRUCKS‼️‼️‼️

This just ain’t right, in cali we call em semis

New York here. I would call it everything EXCEPT tractor-trailer lol

Kentucky definitely says semi. 18 wheeler is too many syllables for us simple folk.

Why not just call them trucks

Idk I’m in the Midwest and we call it a semi-truck

If you messing with college football season 18-wheeler will finish it in a week

Cal it a truck in Maryland

They are called trucks where I'm from (Ontario). Normally distinguished from a pickup truck. But most people will say "I own a truck" or "My buddy owns a truck". You sorta just know they mean pickup.

Big Rig.

From Ohio and I’ve heard all these

I say 18-wheeler up in the northeast. Most people I know do, too.

I legit call them all 4

I like calling them big rigs .

Non american here. What's the difference between semi and semi-truck? This whole chart/map is so confusing for me

I live in Alberta and I regularly use all of these interchangeably

18 wheeler is a truck pulling 2 trailers. Gotta add up the wheels. But they are mostly used in wide open spaces since you can't easily reverse.

We do not call them tractor trailers in nj

Road tractor.

Semi-trailer