Following are three short news reports in Friulian involving trucks. You will learn some new vocabulary related to this sort of vehicle, such as the Friulian for cargo bed, dump truck and cabin. The Friulian for truck or lorry is the masculine noun camion, pronounced with tonic stress on the first syllable: càmion.
Infortuni sul lavôr vuê di matine, indulà che un autotraspuartadôr al è colât mâl dal casson dal so camion intant che lu stave cjamant. Une ambulance e à puartât daurman l’om tal pront socors dal ospedâl di Udin. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans. Workplace accident this morning, where a truck driver fell awkwardly from the cargo bed of his truck as he was loading it. An ambulance took him immediately to emergencies at Udin hospital. Friulian vocabulary: un autotraspuartadôr (truck driver); il casson (cargo bed); cjamâ un camion (to load a truck).
Incident pardabon brut vuê tor misdì e mieç cuant che si son dâts cuintri un furgon e un camion des scovacis. Il bot al è stât une vore fuart e l’om che al vuidave il camion al è restât blocât dentri de cabine. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans. Very serious accident today at about half past noon when a van and a garbage truck collided. The impact was very strong and the man who was driving the truck got stuck in the cabin. Friulian vocabulary: un furgon (van); un camion des scovacis (garbage truck); dâsi cuintri (to collide); restâ blocât (to get stuck); la cabine (cabin).
Incident mortâl sul lavôr inte matine sul tart di vuê. A pierdi la vite un om di cuarantevot agns ae vuide di un camion cun casson ribaltabil daûr. Intal lâ jù une strade blancje, al à pierdût il control dal mieç e al è finît intun sdrup. Un svol di une cincuantine di metris, che i è stât fatâl. / Riferiment: La Vôs dai Furlans. Fatal workplace accident late this morning. A forty-eight-year-old man lost his life as he was driving his truck with a rear tipper bed {dump truck}. As he was going down a dirt road, he lost control of the vehicle and ended up in a ravine. A flight of about fifty metres, which proved fatal to him. Friulian vocabulary: un casson ribaltabil daûr (rear tipper bed); un camion cun casson ribaltabil (dump truck); une strade blancje (unpaved road); pierdi il control (to lose control); un sdrup (ravine).
In the image above, we see the truck flipped onto its left side (ribaltât sul flanc çamp) in a ravine (intun sdrup). The Friulian term camion cun casson ribaltabil (truck with tipper bed) identifies a dump truck.