cattle truck
Britishnoun
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He was sent to Poland in a cattle truck, where he worked in a coal mine, but worse was to come.
From BBC
The convoy was driven in a cattle truck to a refugee reception centre last month, which was set up at the East Warsaw railway station in Poland to help Ukrainians fleeing the conflict.
From BBC
The incident happened in Keith County on Tuesday afternoon, when a cattle truck driver reported that a man in a pickup truck had pointed a handgun at him on the interstate, the Nebraska State Patrol said in a news release.
From Washington Times
The cats had been shipped to Oklahoma — in a cattle truck in the middle of summer — by a Florida zoo in violation of a court order.
From Washington Post
Her journey with her parents to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp near Kraków in Poland, was by cattle truck, wedged in with hundreds of other Jews, no food, water or air for 24 hours.
From The Guardian
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