🚛

Articulated Lorry Emoji 🚛

Cab and detachable trailer both make the cut, the tractor-trailer rig the UK calls a lorry and the US calls a semi or an eighteen-wheeler, same rig either way. It's used for freight, moving day, and long-haul trucking, distinct from 🚚 Delivery Truck's smaller, single-unit box van.

What 🚛 means

The side profile of a lorry with a short body but a much taller enclosed cargo space at the back. The vehicle has visible windows, a headlight, and three wheels, which accounts for three pairs.

The 🚛 Articulated Lorry signifies smoother locomotion in terms of transportation. It may also suggest heavy-duty efficiency, thus carrying larger loads such as heavy equipment, furniture, smaller vehicles, etc.

How and when to use it

While posting or reposting a picture/video of a moving articulated lorry, you can use 🚛. It can be a random one or a specified carrier such as stock for a particular branded store.
🚛 can also be used to refer to a concert truck. Ensure to drag this little buddy into those exciting post captions or stories.
Use 🚛 while sharing pictures of an articulated lorry; it could be a typical day at work, a fancy lorry you came across in the traffic, etc.
You could also use 🚛 while sharing pictures or videos of modified lorries, a new line of lorries, a revamped version of an old brand, etc.
While shipping or receiving a heavy shipment too, you can use 🚛. Like, "I hope the sofas arrive safely 🚛".
Essentially, 🚛 acts as a direct quantifier for a delivery or shipment.

Other Names

🚛 Tractor-Trailer
🚛 Trailer Truck
🚛 Tractor Trailer (without the hyphen)
🚛 Semi-Truck
🚛 Concert Truck
🚛 Trucking Rig
🚛 Green Lorry
🚛 Articulated Truck
🚛 Rig
🚛 Semitrailer
🚛 HGV
🚛 Articulated HGV

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-ground
Codepoints: U+1F69B
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :articulated_lorry:
Keywords: articulated, car, drive, lorry, move, semi, truck, vehicle

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.