truckman
Americannoun
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a truckdriver.
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a person who is in the business of trucking goods, produce, etc.
Etymology
Origin of truckman
Example Sentences
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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
But it amused newspaper readers to see that a truckman could admit it.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
And see here, uncle,—what's the use of paying off that truckman in such a hurry?
From The Young Surveyor; or Jack on the Prairies by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)
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