tractor-trailer
Americannoun
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But Shearer was seated in the center of the cab, eliminating the right-side blind spot, and he was flanked by screens showing every object around his tractor-trailer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Customs and Border Protection officers encountered Friday, when a 29-year-old man drove a commercial tractor-trailer to the Otay Mesa commercial facility and tried to enter San Diego County.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024
In 1978, as the dancers were returning from a show in New Jersey, a tractor-trailer crashed head-on into their bus.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024
A number of vehicles, including "one the size of a tractor-trailer" plunged into the water below, officials said.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024
When the bridge came in sight below them there was a tractor-trailer jackknifed sideways across it and wedged into the buckled iron railings.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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