Definitions

In this article, unless the context or other subject matter requires: 1. "B-train" means a truck-tractor, semitrailer, and semitrailer. 2. "Converter dolly" means an auxiliary axle assembly equipped with a fifth wheel used to convert a semitrailer to a trailer. 3. "Double bottom" means a truck-tractor, semitrailer, and trailer or semitrailer converted to a trailer by use of a converter dolly. 4. "Fifth wheel" means a device used to connect a truck-tractor or converter dolly to a semitrailer. 5. "Gooseneck" means a coupling device attached to the frame of a trailer or vehicle used to connect the trailer or vehicle to a truck-tractor or to the bed of a truck or pickup truck. 6. "Pickup truck" means a small truck with a capacity of less than one ton [907.18 kilograms] registered as a truck or as a passenger vehicle. 7. "Semitrailer" includes every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a truck or truck-tractor that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by a truck or truck-tractor, except that it does not include a "housetrailer" or "mobile home". 8. "Trailer" includes every vehicle without motive power designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle, except that it does not include a "housetrailer" or "mobile home", which terms mean a vehicle as defined in this subsection which is designed and intended for use as living or sleeping quarters for people and which is not used for commercial hauling of passengers. 9. "Triple bottom" (triple trailers) means a truck-tractor, semitrailer, and two trailers or two semitrailers converted to trailers by use of converter dollies. 10. "Truck" includes every motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for transportation of property. 11. "Truck-tractor" includes every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn. 12. "Unit" means one motor vehicle or one vehicle. 13. "Vehicle" includes every device in, upon, or by which any person or property may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.