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The evolution of US commercial transportation

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The evolution of US commercial transportation
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03/06/2025 13:00 ‧ 3 weeks ago | StarsInsider

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Trucks and pickups may not be the most eye-catching of automobile designs, but as commercial motor vehicles created to carry cargo, they've been an essential mode of transport since the arrival of the steam-driven engine in the early 1900s. Perhaps nowhere else in the world has the evolution of the commercial truck been so well documented as in the United States. So, let's take a trip down memory lane and have a look at how these heavy-duty carryalls came into being.

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