stake truck

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noun

a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

Origin of stake truck

First recorded in 1925–30

Instead, the man and woman in the truck wanted to know where the crash site was and whether would I show them.
The 7-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor’s Brutal Journey Through the Woods|James Higdon|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“When Tanveer realized what was happening, he jumped out of the truck, but the Iranians shot him,” Abdullah says.
The Dangerous Drug-Funded Secret War Between Iran and Pakistan|Umar Farooq|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Each well requires 1,500—2,000 truck trips over the lifetime of the well.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We can, due to the critical issues at stake, also go one more step and impose an embargo.
U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack|Gordon G. Chang|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Think about it: Dodd-Frank was explicitly passed to drive a stake through the heart of the implicit concept of “too big to fail.”
How Naive is Elizabeth Warren?|Nick Gillespie|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
The Duke, as well as his friend, had much at stake in bringing this part of his negociation to bear.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
I watched her narrowly, and would stake my life on it she is only the more dangerous for being the less open.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
It wur Tom Wurmsee led me; I wuz gwine ter move his truck fur him this arternoon.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
As long as an emergency truck could squeeze through at moderate speed, that was enough.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe