truckload
the amount that a truck can carry.
the minimum weight legally required for making shipments at a rate (truckload rate ) below that charged for shipments under this minimum.
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Instead of buying split firewood by the bundle or truckload, save some time, energy, and money doing it yourself—the easy way—with one of the best log splitters on the market now.
These are the best log splitters to chop time and energy off splitting firewood | Irena Collaku | June 25, 2021 | Popular-ScienceLast month, self-driving technology company TuSimple shipped a truckload of watermelons across the state of Texas ten hours faster than normal.
Waymo Self-Driving Trucks Will Soon Start Moving Freight Across Texas | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | June 11, 2021 | Singularity HubLast month TuSimple, a transportation company focused on self-driving technology for heavy-duty trucks, shipped a truckload of watermelons from Arizona to Oklahoma using the truck’s autonomous system for over 80 percent of the journey.
A Self-Driving Truck Got a Shipment Cross-Country 10 Hours Faster Than a Human Driver | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | June 1, 2021 | Singularity HubSo, consider the logistics of bringing truckloads of explosives for Wednesday’s “Celebrating America” inauguration concert into a twitchy, locked-down Washington, less than two weeks after a deadly insurrection, during a pandemic.
Still dazzled by the inauguration show? Here’s how it came together, and why Tom Hanks looked so cold. | Maura Judkis | January 22, 2021 | Washington PostIt also received another truckload of Emmy nominations — 18 to be exact — more than any other primetime news cast, the third straight year it’s accomplished that feat.
For Vice Media, bad-boy news culture is dead, long live news | Max Willens | December 30, 2020 | Digiday
When a truckload of ‘soldiers’ from the Maidan arrived at the palace, everyone broke out in cheers of ‘Geroyem Slava’!
Occupy Kiev: What Should Ukraine Do Now With The Heroes of the Maidan? | Vijai Maheshwari | February 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis only “vice,” as he puts it, is Red Bull, which he drinks by the truckload.
Weeds’s Hunter Parrish: The Final Seasons and Those Shirtless Scenes | Itay Hod | July 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe defense secretary hauls out a truckload of examples of waste and mismanagement that can be safely cut.
The army provided a truckload of soldiers as escorts, and we took a circuitous route to avoid areas not considered secure.
The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload.
One truckload of lumber at 60 per cent moisture may easily contain over 7,000 pounds of ice.
Seasoning of Wood | Joseph B. WagnerAs the last truckload came in from the front, it was followed and fired on by jeering Soudanese.
The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 | Charles RoyleDuring the afternoon there had been piled truckload after truckload of cordwood at the end of the company streets.
At Plattsburg | Allen FrenchAnd a truckload of books and paperscleaned out a regular nest.
The Radio Detectives | A. Hyatt VerrillA truckload of Boers behind every engine would have stopped the practice for ever.
The Great Boer War | Arthur Conan Doyle
British Dictionary definitions for truckload
/ (ˈtrʌkˌləʊd) /
the amount carried by a truck
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