lastbilcentral

English translation: haulage and plant hire depot

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Swedish term or phrase:	lastbilcentral
English translation:	haulage and plant hire depot
Entered by:	SafeTex

09:16 Dec 29, 2017

Swedish to English translations [PRO]
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Swedish term or phrase: lastbilcentral

Hello

I've looked on the Internet and these centres seem not only to deliver goods, but I think they may hire out lorries too (with or without a driver). A lot of them also offer vehicles other than lorries, stuff like pick ups, trailers, dumper trucks, bulldozers etc.

For all these reasons, I can't seem to find an English equivalent. "Vehicle centre" is more for selling cars etc. "car rental" falls far short of what this is in Swedish. "Heavy goods vehicles" doesn't cover some of the more specialized vehicles

Can anyone help please?

Thanks

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haulage depot

Explanation:
Good explanation in Swedish here of what they do and how they came about: https://www.tematransport.se/lastbilscentralen-har-att-stann...

Seems to fit with the English expression - examples here: https://tinyurl.com/y9kwnw3g

Also, it is "lastbilscentral", with a joining "s".

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Note added at 5 hrs (2017-12-29 14:26:10 GMT)
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How about "haulage and plant depot" - to retain the sense of "central".

Selected response from:

Agneta Pallinder
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:01

Grading comment

I wish I could give points to both of you as I also used Matt's idea
2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

heavy plant depot

Matt Bibby

haulage depot

Agneta Pallinder

Discussion entries: 10

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57 mins confidence:

heavy plant depot

Explanation:
As it's historical and isn't exactly what they do now, and as there also seems to be quite a variation in what a 'traditionell lastbilscenter' actually does, I think you'd get away with writing 'haulage depot' as Agneta suggests, or perhaps something more general like 'heavy plant depot' as I've suggested. That would cover pretty much everything, including vehicle hire, haulage services and so on.

Matt Bibby
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:01
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English
PRO pts in category: 6

30 mins confidence:

haulage depot

Agneta Pallinder
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:01
Native speaker of:

Swedish,

English
PRO pts in category: 14

Grading comment

I wish I could give points to both of you as I also used Matt's idea

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