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This is a typical 18 wheeler. It is what you see most often on US highways and is used for interstate transport:

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It has one wheel and tire on each front position. Each of the other positions typically have two rims and tires for a total of 8 on the rear of the tractor and 8 more on the rear of the trailer.Automatic Replacement Roll Candle Filter. These are two separate rims and tires for each position.2018 Hot Sell Anti-Bacterial with High Fire Resistant Rating Woven PVC Flooring for Library/Office(four tire/rim combinations) visible in this picture:

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A truck with double trailers has lots of rims/tires, but might still be referred to as an 18 wheeler by the public:

Same with triples:

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This is the wheel arrangement on an 18 wheeler:

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If the tractor and trailer were equipped with SS’s, it would be a ten wheeler,Low Price CNC Wood Furniture Carving Router, CNC Router Machine.

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The trailers then typically have 2 axles with 2 tyres each per side.Nylon Gear Sleeve of Tooth Couplings. Giving 8 tyres/Artificial Plant Foliage Leaf Privacy Hedge Fence Green Wall Vertical Garden Synthetic Grass Turf.

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To save drag and fuel when empty one of each dual axle on the tractor and trailer can be lifted up. In this case, you’d end up with a 10 wheeler on the ground.

Let me straighten this out.

There has been constant, long-standing confusion between the distinct meanings of “wheel”.

Wheel can refer to “wheel rim”. It is the cylindrical structure to which a pneumatic tire is attached. There must be one tire on each wheel rim and I am not aware of any exception.

Wheel can also refer to “wheel hub”. It is the structure to which wheel rim or wheel rims are attached with studs.Kangsheng Customized Gunmetal Engraved Logo Plate, Rectangle Shape with Pin Leg Fix Metal Labels Plate for Handbags. If the hub is on a driving axle,Oral Care New Design Baby Kids Toothbrush with FDA. On a steering axle, it is the hub that steers which in turn steers the wheel rim. There must be a pair of wheel hubs on one axle, but there can be one or two wheel rims on a wheel hub. Some agricultural tractors even have more than two wheel rims on one hub.

The word “wheel” sometimes refers to wheel rims, as in “18-wheeler”.

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A typical North American combination consists of a tractor with three axles (one front axle and a set of driving tandem axle), and a semi-trailer with two axles. Before super-Ductile Iron Flanged Swing Check Valve, all axles, except the front steering axle, are fitted with dual-tireson each side. That means two wheel rims, and hence two tires, on each wheel hub. Since one axle has two hubs, an axle with dual-tires counts a total of four tires.

So in the colloquial term “18-wheeler”, the word “wheel” here means “wheel rim”. An 18-wheeler has a total of (2+4+4)+(4+4)=18 wheel rims, and hence 18 tires.

However, an 18-wheeler has only 10 wheel hubs.

When does “wheel” refer to “wheel hub”?

When we refer to driving configurations, as in RWD, FWD, 4x4, etc.

If you ask any truck driver what his/her truck’s driving configuration is, he/Light Deprivation System Large Scale Venlo Glass Greenhouse for Herb Medicine Planting Growing

“It’s a 6x4” or “4x2” or “8x6”, etc.

A 6x4 means the truck has three axles, and two of them drive. Because, again, there are two wheel hubs on each axle, you times the axle number by 2 to get the wheel hub number.

But from 6x4, you will not know exactly how many wheel rims or tires the truck has. Most possibly, it has (2+4+4=) 10, but it could also be six (Go-No Go Fixed Gauges/Glug Guage to Test Quality of Products), or other much less possible layout.

So back to your question. Your statement is not wrong. It depends on how you interpret the word “wheel”.

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• Here, “wheel” means “wheel rims” and therefore “tires”, and
• Typically they have 18 wheel rims and therefore 18 tires.

Hope this clarifies things a little bit.