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A trailer so flat it lets bulldozers ride the highway without ducking under bridges.
means A lowboy is a low, semi-trailer with a deck that sits close to the ground, built to haul tall, heavy equipment like bulldozers and excavators under highway height limits.
from From 'low' plus 'boy,' the latter likely a generic tag for a piece of equipment — compare 'tallboy' and 'highboy,' the upright chests of drawers contrasted with their squat cousin the 'lowboy' (a low table or dresser, a furniture sense dating back centuries). The trucking 'lowboy' borrows that same low-versus-tall logic, applying the old furniture nickname to a trailer built deliberately close to the road.
- clearance king
- Sits inches off the road for tall, heavy loads
- weight monster
- Hauls up to 80,000 pounds of machinery
- drops low
- Detachable goosenecks let cargo roll right on
- furniture twin
- Also a short chest of drawers on legs
lowboy furniture — 18th-century american dressing table, typically 30 inches tall with cabriole legs, made by colonial craftsmen
lowboy trailer — heavy equipment transport trailer with a low deck, commonly used to haul construction machinery on u.s. highways