Truck and pick-up what's the difference??

**digitel** · November 29th, 2008 10:56 PM

mga sir! tanung lang po.. anu po ba ung pinagkaibahan nung pick-up sa truck? kasi di ba ung ibang pick up, truck ung tawag nila? curious lang po ako... noob here!

**OTEP** · November 29th, 2008 11:04 PM

Strictly speaking, a pick up truck is one kind of truck. Not all trucks are pick up trucks as some don't have a bed on the back.

**v6dreamer** · November 29th, 2008 11:58 PM

A pick up has an open bed. Vans, and panel trucks that are enclosed, are trucks, but not pick ups. The so-called "sports utility vehicles" or SUVs that are so popular now are trucks too in the literal sense, since the're mounted on truck chassis.

**Gerbo** · November 30th, 2008 12:16 AM

I think the word "truck" is being used differently in many countries...

But to my understanding, it is a vehicle platform which generally needs larger wheels and stronger chassis....so as to withstand any road conditions. Given this definition the following can be considered a truck:
-vans
-commercial types that ferry goods
-lorry or the haulers
-firetrucks

A pick up is a truck with an open bed at the back.

Probably in the Philippines, the one that would muddle the definition are the commercial types with a dropside bed at the back and a passenger cabin in front. Are they pick ups?

As a side note, an SUV (as originally intended) is basically a passenger truck.

**niky** · November 30th, 2008 12:49 AM

They're still pick-ups... though it gets confusing when you apply the term to a six-wheel cab-forward truck...

It gets worse when you consider the non-ladder-frame pick-ups out there, like the AD-Resort.. since the AD-Resort is not, technically, a truck, being a monocoque vehicle, but is still a pick-up...