Jumptrucks

Jumptrucks are a class of small spacecraft designed for freight loads between 20 to 800 tonnes. Larger classes of jumptruck share somewhat more in common with cargo aircraft in terrestrial comparisons, but advances in spacecraft maintenance and changes in ethos since the Nanofacturing Revolution have made it feasible for jumptrucks to be treated somewhat similarly across their disparate mass range. In the Free Traders Union or the Liruma Mandate it is also possible to speak of owner-operators thanks to the advent of effective immortality (that is, immortals have a long time to pay off the vehicle).