truckload
Americannoun
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the amount that a truck can carry.
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the minimum weight legally required for making shipments at a rate truckload rate below that charged for shipments under this minimum.
noun
Etymology
Origin of truckload
Example Sentences
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Less than truckload, or LTL, is for customers who don’t need an entire truckload.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
“We expect truckload and LTL carriers to benefit first from rising spot rates and strengthening industrial demand, followed by freight brokers, and lastly intermodal provider,” Kuhn says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Bedard notes, however, that there are “very early signs” from its truckload sector that “things will start to get better during 2026.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
A truckload of freshly harvested soybeans needs his attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
It is tempting to think so—just as it is tempting to think that a truckload of children’s books will make a child smarter.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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