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Truce of Leulinghem
Truce of Leulinghem: Anglo-French truce of the Hundred Years' War, first made 1389 at Leulinghem near Calais, extended 9 March 1396 with Richard II's marriage to Isabelle of France for 28 years until 1426, confirmed by Henry IV in 1400, ending with Henry V's war in 1415.
Truce of Yam-Zapolsky
The Truce of Yam-Zapolsky (Ям-Запольский мир) was a ten-year armistice signed on 15 January 1582 between Ivan IV of Russia and King Stephen Báthory, ending the Livonian War.
Truchas Peak
Truchas Peak (South Truchas), 13,102-13,107 ft, is New Mexico's second-highest independent summit, in the Pecos Wilderness of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains about 20 miles northeast of Santa Fe; highest point of Mora and Rio Arriba counties.
Trucial States (الساحل المتصالح)
Trucial States (الساحل المتصالح), also Trucial Coast, former British-protected Persian Gulf sheikhdoms under the 1820–1892 maritime truce treaties; six became the UAE in 1971, Ras al-Khaimah joined 1972.
Truck
A truck, called a lorry in British English, is a motor vehicle designed to carry property, ranging from pickups to multi-trailer combination vehicles; the first motorized truck was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1896.
Truck classification
Truck classification is the sorting of goods vehicles into categories by maximum mass, axle count, configuration, or intended use, under systems that differ between the EU and the US.
Truck driver
A truck driver, also known as a lorry driver, earns a living driving trucks, with about 2,235,100 heavy and tractor-trailer driver jobs in the United States in 2024.
Truck driver shortage
The truck driver shortage is the American Trucking Associations' claim that the United States lacks enough truck drivers, an estimate economists dispute as high turnover rather than a true shortage.
Truck electrification
Truck electrification is the replacement of diesel drivetrains in commercial trucks with electric power, led by battery-electric trucks, which reached 9% of heavy freight truck sales in 2025.
Truck loading automation
Truck loading automation is the family of technologies that loads and unloads freight trailers automatically, cutting a full-trailer load from 20 to 45 minutes to 2 to 10.
Truck nuts
Truck nuts, also known as Truck Nutz or truck balls, are plastic or metal fake testicles hung from a truck's trailer hitch, becoming a mass-market novelty in the late 2000s.
Truck platooning
Truck platooning is the operation of two or more trucks driving in close convoy, linked by automation and V2V communication to cut aerodynamic drag and save fuel.
Truck rollover stability control
Truck rollover stability control is an onboard safety technology that detects an impending rollover of a heavy truck and slows it automatically by reducing engine torque and applying brakes.
Truck scale
A truck scale, called a weighbridge outside North America, is a large scale that weighs whole trucks and their cargo by comparing loaded and empty weight.
Truck stop
A truck stop is a privately owned roadside facility providing diesel fuel, overnight parking, showers, food, and maintenance for commercial truck drivers, distinct from public rest areas.
Truck stop electrification
Truck stop electrification, also called electrified parking spaces or shore power, supplies grid power, heating, and cooling to parked trucks so drivers shut off the engine during required rest.
Truck Turner
Truck Turner is a 1974 American International Pictures blaxploitation action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Isaac Hayes as a Los Angeles bounty hunter targeted by pimps after killing Gator, with Yaphet Kotto and Nichelle Nichols and a Hayes double-LP soundtrack.
Truck wages
Truck wages, part of the truck system, are wages paid in goods, tokens, or company scrip instead of legal money, banned in Britain by the Truck Act 1831.
Truck-kun
Truck-kun is fandom slang for the recurring truck in anime, manga, and light novels that kills the protagonist to launch an isekai story. Coined online around 2015, it appears in Mushoku Tensei, is parodied in Konosuba, and inspired Strange Scaffold's game.
Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!
Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! is a 2026 Strange Scaffold arcade driving game for PC and Xbox Series X|S parodying the isekai Truck-kun trope, with Crazy Taxi-style runs, a Crazy Taxi-like loop, Metascore 69, and Steam Very Positive reviews.
Truck-mounted attenuator
A truck-mounted attenuator (TMA) is a crash cushion mounted on the rear of a truck or trailer to reduce the severity of rear-end crashes in work zones.
Truckee, California
Truckee, California: Sierra Nevada charter town in Nevada County, incorporated 1993, population about 17,100. Founded as a Central Pacific Railroad and logging town in 1868, named for Paiute guide Tro-kay; now a snowy tourism and ski hub near Donner Pass.
Trucks Venture Capital
Trucks Venture Capital, also known as Trucks VC, is a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm that invests exclusively in transportation technology, with roughly $132 million across three funds.
Truco (Truco_Ar)
Truco (Truco_Ar), or Argentine Truco, is a bluffing trick-taking card game of the Río de la Plata played with the Spanish 40-card deck, three cards per player, envido and flor bets, and truco-retruco-vale cuatro raises to 30 points.
Truco (Truco_Ur)
Truco uruguayo (Truco_Ur), or Truco Oriental, is the Uruguayan version of the Truco card game, played with a 40-card Spanish deck and a face-up muestra card that creates five powerful piezas, distinguishing it from Argentine Truco.
Truco (Truco)
Truco, a South American trick-taking card game from Spanish Truc (Catalonia, Valencia), played with a 40-card deck by four players in partnerships; flor, envido, and truco scoring with bluffing and signals; variants in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
Trudeau family
Trudeau family: Canadian political dynasty descending from Étienne Truteau (arrived 1659); Pierre Elliott Trudeau (PM 1968–84) and son Justin Trudeau (23rd PM, 2015–2025), with WE Charity and Trudeau Foundation controversies.
Trudi Meyer
Trudi Meyer (Gertrud Meyer-Baier, 1914-1999), German artistic gymnast from Hannover; won team gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and the unofficial individual competition; later married water polo player Bernhard Baier.
Trudi Schüpbach
Trudi Schüpbach, born 1950, is a Swiss-born American developmental geneticist and emerita professor at Princeton University known for working out how the Drosophila embryo establishes its dorsal–ventral axis.
Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler (born 1954, Bromsgrove) is an English actress, film producer, and director who co-founded the Rainforest Fund with Sting and Dr. Franca Sciuto in 1989 and co-runs Maven Pictures; distinguishable from namesakes by her RSC acting career and Freak Show directorial debut.