truckman
Americannoun
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a truckdriver.
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a person who is in the business of trucking goods, produce, etc.
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Origin of truckman
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Henry Herbermann did not remain a truckman for long.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge de Zaldo was just about to receive the trunk when Elmer & Rudolph swooped, arrested broker and truckman, opened the trunk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery.
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Mrs. Lewis, daughter of a Canadian truckman, now makes nearly a million dollars a year as Elizabeth Arden, cosmetics.
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You may drive him to Chicago, and use him in recovering your horse from the truckman.
From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
For a few hours last week U.S. truckmen were given a brief glimpse of heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
For these startling gains all credit goes to Art Tilt, who has a seventh sense for what truckmen will buy, has manufactured motor vehicles longer than anyone else except Henry Ford.
From Time Magazine Archive
Basis of the dispute: whether A.F. of L. or C.I.O. truckmen should deliver soda pop to the plants.
From Time Magazine Archive
When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended.
From Time Magazine Archive
I reached, trying to select the whitest, as the blue-shirted truckmen climbed through the loading door.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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