A
bogie ( ) (in some
senses called a
truck in American English) is a
chassis or framework carrying wheels, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a
modular subassembly of wheels and
axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of transport. A bogie may remain normally attached (as on a railway carriage [car] or locomotive, or on a
semi-trailer) or be quickly detachable (as the
dolly in a
road train); it may contain a
suspension within it (as most rail and trucking bogies do), or be solid and in turn be suspended (as most bogies of
tracked vehicles are); it may be mounted on a swivel, as traditionally on a railway carriage or locomotive, additionally jointed and sprung (as in the
landing gear of an
airliner), or held in place by other means (centreless bogies).