Load into or onto

[TheShadow]

Hi,


Do you load a bike into the truck bed or onto the truck bed? I have seen both, is there any difference?


Also with planes do you load the baggage into the plane or onto?

Thanks

 

[I.M. Knott]

1. Do you load a bike into the truck bed or onto the truck bed? I have seen both, is there any difference?
Answer:No significant difference
2. Also with planes do you load the baggage into the plane or onto?
Answer: "Into the plane" is better. "Onto the plane" might be wrongly construed as "onto the outside of the plane."
[Like inadvertently setting the baggage on the wing]

 

[probus]

It depends on whether the truck, lorry or van is open or enclosed. It it has sides and a roof, use into. But if is is just a flat base use onto.