这个意义扩展为“用于搬运重物的手推车”(1774年),特别是低车身的强壮重型二轮和四轮车辆;然后在美式英语中指“用于搬运重物的机动车”(1902年),是 motor truck 的缩短形式,这种用法可追溯至1901年。
There have also been lost to the enemy 6,200 guns, 2,550 tanks and 70,000 trucks, which is the American name for lorries, and which, I understand, has been adopted by the combined staffs in North-West Africa in exchange for the use of the word petrol in place of gasolene. [Winston Churchill, address to joint session of U.S. Congress, May 19, 1943]