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The standard toll for a commercial truck using the Gordie Howe bridge is $8.75 per axle, compared with $20 an axle for the Ambassador Bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Its 45-ton axle was largest piece of steel ever forged until that time, demonstrating new advances in steel construction and mechanical engineering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

Foiling the visual expectations of a lifetime, the four-door’s glass roof joins the car’s sloping rear deck just over the rear axle, omitting a transparent panel of any kind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

In many instances, teams are using high-speed parts of the track to reduce engine output to the rear axle and charge the battery instead, a process known as "clipping".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

The wheel Ferris envisioned actually consisted of two wheels spaced thirty feet apart on the axle.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The Bentley, he noted, has electrically actuated anti-roll linkages on both axles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The engine roar, so critical to Ferraris, can be provided by what the company calls an “external amplification system” that pumps the natural sound of the electric axles out to the street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

The Opel Blitz was stuck fast in the deep gravel bed, almost up to its axles.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

They then raised the church 4 feet off the ground, supported by steel beams, and put it on giant remote-controlled transporters with 56 axles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

Its axles were set on piles of cinder blocks and the formerly yellow vehicle was painted a rather haphazard eggshell white.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy