tank truck

American  

noun

1. a truck with a tank body, suitable for transporting gases or liquids, as oil, gasoline, or milk, in bulk.

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Example Sentences

The driver who was injured drove a tank truck containing sulfuric acid.

From New York Times

In the middle of the night, Sofya and the others stumbled out of bed and began to defrost the planes by spraying them with hot water from a tank truck.

From Literature

Training in wartime meant that in the middle of an exercise, the plane might land in a snow-covered field where the navigation students would have to help refuel it by carrying buckets back and forth from a tank truck that couldn’t drive through the snow.

From Literature

A fuel tank truck drives past a signboard, which reads "Druzhba oil pipeline," near the city of Samara, Russia July 23, 2019.

From Reuters

So on a recent hot, sunny day, they were busy dragging buckets and bins to a water tank truck to fill them.

From Seattle Times