CV or cv

1) Commercial vehicle. Vehicles used in connection with trade or business (eg trucks and buses).

Customs clearance

1) Process of clearing import/export cargo through Customs (ie by examination of the documentation and/or the goods themselves).

Customized truck

1) Goods vehicle specially painted (often with elaborate murals) and fitted with chrome/stainless exhaust stacks, bumpers and other trim, alloy wheels, etc and high levels of cab interior trim.

Curtainside/curtainsider

1) Vehicle/trailer having enclosed body with fixed roof and ‘curtain’ (ie flexible canvas/plastic-coated material) sides which can be drawn forward or to the rear to provide access to the load space from either side (for fork-lift loading/off-loading, etc), also rapid means of providing weather protection for goods.

Current ratio

1) Financial calculation used to indicate ratio of current assets to current liabilities (ie the ability to pay current demands out of available funds) - same as working capital ratio.

Cube out

1) Expression used to indicate that the volumetric capacity of a vehicle body/container is reached before its weight limit.