Wikipedia:WikiProject Trucks

Welcome to the WikiProject Trucks. This is a WikiProject to improve articles on trucks, truckparts and truck manufacturers. Please feel free to edit this page, but discussions should be kept on the talk page of this project.


 * Goals

The purpose of this WikiProject is to co-ordinate articles on light, medium and heavy trucks. It aims to improve the coverage of manufacturers and models, and to make articles on trucks uniform and informative.
 * Scope

This project proposes to work with all pages related to the type of road or off-road vehicle commonly known as truck or lorry.

Guidelines

 * We shall strive to follow the Manual of Style.
 * A lot of useful guidelines can be found at our sister WikiProject Automobiles.

Participants
--Saltysailor (talk) 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Kieran T ( talk  (chiefly older UK, especially Rootes-related)
 * TicketMan - Talk - contribs 22:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Duncan1800 I like lots of different trucks, but I'm based in the USA which limits me somewhat. I do agree about the need for consistency among truck articles and will do what I can to help fix it.
 * ɯɐʇsnɾı (talk) 16:09, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Stian Former truck driver, diesel addict and Peterbilt fan. Slowly working on the US CDL article as my first WikiProject Trucks project!
 * Chevymontecarlo (talk) 15:12, 21 February 2010 (UTC) - Extending and copyediting truck stubs.
 * Orsd {talk} Most likely semi-participant but will try to drop by and help with US truck related articles.
 * FrankyLeRoutier (talk) 04:17, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Midder Ford (Ford Trucks Including F-series, L-series, LCF and, more.*AMERICAN*) 21:07, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * DestinationFearFan (talk) 16:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC) (I like to create/edit pages on Toyota trucks)

Inactive Participants

 * Rotten Stone (vintage Volvo and Scania)
 * FabioTalk Definitely agree, there needs to be a more uniform article structure on trucks and i think a project may accomplish this.
 * G®iffen (Semi-participating. Basics om new European models, truck purposes, finding suitable pictures, translating from Scandinavian + eventually German texts)
 * Hasannur OK, I'm interested and willing to help
 * Tepoo (I'll probably be semi-participant like G®iffen but I definitely agree there should be better consistency amongst lorry related articles. Interested about truck manufacturers from Northern Europe and on more general view keeping articles well formed.)
 * --HybridBoy 11:21, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * --Hencetalk (talk) 10:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * John Carter (talk) 17:05, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Dionysus_ab I'll try to help. Trucking experience in Europe, N. Africa and N. America; not much experience on Wikipedia, though.
 * VWphaetonfan VW Enthusiast, I created the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles page and am a lover of all things VW be it small cars to large trucks.
 * Truck driver from the USA, 3 years experience. I train new drivers so I have lots of knowledge of truck regulations and whatnot. Doing what I can to improve old articles and create new ones. ErgoSum88 (talk) 10:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Stonufka I'm in, mainly into Tatra and Volvo.
 * Whitfan I'll go in as a semi-participant. Caterpillar and Western Star are my specialty, and anything to do with the Australian industry. (Road Trains FTW!)
 * DAFMM (talk) - all British trucks (in particular ERF).
 * The Crunchy Nutter (talk) 09:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC) - Working on the Scania article
 * Vegavairbob I have contributed to several truck articles including Chevrolet El Camino and GMC motorhome  01:39, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Templates
About templates, see section /Templates.

Categories
Please use one of the following categories when writing a truck related article.
 * Category:Trucks
 * Category:Truck manufacturers
 * more ...

Stubs
Instead of using the standard stub template, you may want to use one of the following more specific vehicle stub tags, some of which are:


 * vehicle-stub for stubs about general automotive topics. Unfortunately, this category contains many articles, so use of one of the more targeted subcategories is recommended:
 * truck-stub - for stub articles about trucks
 * van-stub - for stub articles about vans
 * auto-stub - for stub articles about sedan delivery vans / car derived vans
 * motorvehicle-company-stub - for stub articles about automotive companies
 * auto-factory-stub - for stub articles about automotive factories
 * automotive-part-stub - for stub articles about automotive parts or components
 * automotive-tech-stub - for stub articles about automotive technologies
 * road-stub - for stub articles about general road transport

Featured articles

 * Winter service vehicle
 * Hours of service
 * Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula

Good articles

 * Trucking industry in the United States
 * Vanajan Autotehdas

TFAs (Today's Featured Article)

 * Hours of service - February 26, 2009.

DYKs (Did You Knows)

 * Walter Hancock - 14 December 2006.
 * Sisu KB-124 – 20 April 2015

Things to do

 * Guidelines for the structure of good articles on trucks and truck manufacturers
 * Infoboxes
 * User banner
 * Project banner
 * Create a sound structure for categories under Category:Trucks
 * Pictures

Parentage
WikiProject Transportation

Related projects

 * WikiProject Buses
 * WikiProject Automobiles
 * WikiProject Motorcycling
 * WikiProject Military history/Military land vehicles task force

Resources

 * The main article: Truck
 * List of truck types
 * Glossary of United States truck industry jargon
 * Truck pictures at Wikimedia Commons
 * What is a Big Rig?
 * Trucking industry in the United States