Berikutan hujan, lori pindah tiba lewat.

Here berikutan means something like following, as a result of, or due to.

In this sentence, it introduces the reason for the delay:

• Berikutan hujan = because of the rain / following the rain

A useful note: berikutan is a bit more formal and is common in news-style Malay.

It is understandable, but it sounds a little formal and slightly clipped.

More everyday ways to say this would be:

• Disebabkan hujan, lori pindah tiba lewat.
• Kerana hujan, lori pindah tiba lewat.

With berikutan, Malay often sounds more natural if the event is a bit more specific, for example:

• Berikutan hujan lebat, lori pindah tiba lewat.

So the original sentence works, but many speakers would choose kerana or disebabkan in normal conversation.

Malay normally does not use articles like English a, an, or the.

So:

• lori can mean a truck, the truck, or just truck/trucks, depending on context.

If the speaker wants to make it clearer, they can add words like:

• sebuah lori = a truck
• lori itu = that/the truck

But in many sentences, Malay simply leaves this unstated.

Yes, in this sentence lori pindah is best understood as a compound expression meaning moving truck or removal truck.

Even though pindah is usually a verb meaning to move or to relocate, Malay often places one noun or verb-like word after another to describe the first noun.

So:

• lori pindah = a truck used for moving house / transporting belongings during a move

This kind of compact noun phrase is very common in Malay.

In theory, pindah by itself can be a verb, so a learner might wonder about that. But in this sentence, the most natural reading is that lori pindah is one noun phrase: the moving truck.

Why? Because the sentence continues with tiba lewat:

• lori pindah tiba lewat = the moving truck arrived late

If you wanted the truck moved, you would usually make that clearer, for example:

• Lori itu pindah... = The truck moved...

So here pindah is functioning as part of the noun phrase, not as the main verb.

Malay does not need a verb like is or was in this structure.

• tiba = arrive
• lewat = late

So:

• tiba lewat = arrive late

This is very normal Malay word order:

• verb + description/adverb

For example:

• Dia datang awal. = He/She came early.
• Bas tiba lewat. = The bus arrived late.

So tiba lewat is a straightforward way to say arrived late.

Malay verbs do not change form for tense the way English verbs do.

So tiba can mean:

• arrives
• arrived
• will arrive

The time is usually understood from context or from time words such as:

• semalam = yesterday
• hari ini = today
• esok = tomorrow
• akan = will
• sudah / telah = already / has-had

So on its own, lori pindah tiba lewat does not mark tense explicitly. The meaning depends on context.

Yes. The sentence starts with the reason first for emphasis:

• Berikutan hujan, lori pindah tiba lewat.

You could also say:

• Lori pindah tiba lewat berikutan hujan.

Both are understandable. The difference is mainly one of emphasis and style:

• starting with Berikutan hujan foregrounds the cause
• starting with Lori pindah foregrounds the subject

The first version can sound a bit more formal or report-like.

A few natural alternatives are:

• Kerana hujan, lori pindah tiba lewat.
• Disebabkan hujan, lori pindah tiba lewat.
• Lori pindah tiba lewat kerana hujan.

If you want a slightly more polished version, you could also say:

• Berikutan hujan lebat, lori pindah itu tiba lewat.

So the original sentence is understandable, but many learners will hear kerana or disebabkan more often in daily speech.