Those concrete slabs you sometimes see at the end of parking spaces - do they have a name? Curb? Stop? Bump? What are those things called?
Are you talking about parking blocks?
deeleewhackers.
Oops. Hit post too soon. Actually, I always thought they were called curbs.
“Expensive Car Repairs”.
What?
Well, based on **tremorviolet’s ** cite, the technical name is apparently “chocks” - but deleewhackers is good too. Thanks!
Well, I’d never heard “chocks” until I found that site. In this part of the country, we say “wheel stops” (BTW, I’m civil engineer). I suspect “chocks” is a yankee thing…
Well, if we’re going to name things based on what we *call * them, in my family they’re “them concrete thingys” although “expensive car repairs” would be equally valid.
I don’t know about yankee, though. I think “chocks” and “wheel stops” both probably come from the early days of aviation.
you mean they aren’t pigs? I’d heard 'em called that. Wheelstops it is, I guess.
Apparently, the name differs by region: “Curbs” on the west coast, “Wheel Stops” in the Southwest, “Parking Blocks” from wherever **E-Diddy’s ** from, and “Pigs” from wherever xbuckeye’s from (that wouldn’t be Ohio by any chance would it, xbuckeye?
This will really come in handy if I ever decide to write a book called, “The Adventures of Charlie Chocks, Cross-Country Parking Lot Detective.”
I honestly don’t know where I picked it up…but Ohio seems likely, since I never had another name for them. But then again…how often do you talk about wheelstops?
Perhaps xbuckeye is from Northern Ohio. I think that term would elude anyone from Southwest Ohio. Although its not hard to imagine that many things elude us.
‘Chocks’ sounds more correct than my previous entry of ‘blocks’.
Airdam crushers.
Pull through preventers.
Plow inhibitors.
Take your pick.
Nah, you don’t get any more yankee than Massachusetts, and we call 'em wheelstops here.
And I also work for a civil engineering firm and we specify them a lot. Too much, IMHO; they really aren’t appropriate where there are snow plows. They are made of precast concrete, and when a plow hits them, eventually the salt and ice start to spall them. Or else the plows lift them up and carry them along. We have a lot of granite here in New England, and it makes great curbing. The initial capital cost is steep, but it lasts forever. And, it does a lot less damage to cars.
Speedbumps?
(I have a big truck and can ignore a lot of obsticles.)