Heavy duty trucks are generally defined as those with a gross vehicle weight of 15 tons or more.

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It's unusually large, more than 20 feet tall, with a weight of at least 20 tons.

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"We don't like heart patients doing tons of heavy weight lifting coupled with cold weather, " says Pomerantz, whose home of Rochester averages about 7 feet 8 inches of snow each year.

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Seventy-five thousand tons dead-weight rushing through the fog at the rate of fifty feet per second, had hurled itself at an iceberg.

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The total weight comes in at a feathery 1.6 metric tons, with the batteries accounting for 661.39lbs (300kg) of it.

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They came up with 56 simple solutions, such as converting to a lighter-weight food carts that saved the airline 43, 000 tons.

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It called for repatriation of 150 tons over the next three years to test the quality and weight of the gold bars.

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Together they seek to sell 87 tons of stockpiled elephant ivory to international markets, with subsequent annual quotas totaling 13 tons. (100 tons of ivory represents roughly 5, 700 elephants, based on a measure of average tusk weight presented in the South African proposal.) In an opposing proposal, India and Kenya seek to tighten the existing ivory ban by returning elephants to the most protected CITES status (Appendix I).

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