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  • n  freight car without permanent sides or roof
  • n  an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects

  • They surrendered to Northern Alliance General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who crowed that his forces had achieved a "great victory" as the pows were herded 50 at a time onto flatbed trucks.
  • On the bridge, a red flatbed truck with a 20-ft.
  • They made a big step forward last May when they arrested two couriers who were ferrying 200 ill-concealed kilograms of cocaine in a flatbed truck outside Houston.
News & Articles

  • Driver lucky in rollover wreck
    A Henry Poor Lumber Company driver suffered minor injuries after he lost control of his flatbed truck, flipping it on to its top.
    June 20, 2013 - WLFI Lafayette
  • Océ Arizona 600 Series UV Flatbed Printers Offer High Capacity and Application Versatility
    Canon Solutions America, Inc. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A., today announced the new Océ Arizona® 600 Series UV flatbed printers that are designed to deliver high total and peak production capacity while maintaining the uncompromising print quality favored by Océ Arizona Series customers.
    June 19, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
  • Flip-Pal mobile scanner
    The Flip-Pal mobile scanner lets you remove its flatbed cover, flip the scanner over, and scan whatever is under it.
    June 19, 2013 - PC Magazine
Quotes

  • Buddy Baker in ThatsRacin.com
    If you wrecked out of a race there, most of the time you wouldn't even go back to the garage,Buddy Baker says. "You'd just go down and climb up on the flatbed. You knew that's where everything was going to be happening."
  • Simon Nicol in Newbury Weekly News Group
    It's a curious thing - people think the festival is more or less the same as it was in 1980 but it has changed enormously,says Nicol. "In the early days a stage was little more than a few flatbed trucks with a bit of tarpaulin over the...
  • Ed Rendell in MSNBC
    I've told Chicago I want [Obama] here on a Saturday, from 10 till 4:30, and I want to go to six locations,Rendell said. "And I want to have flatbed trucks in each location. I want the streets to be closed, and I want five to 10 thousand...

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