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truckie

British  
/ ˈtrʌkɪ /

noun

  1. informal a truck driver

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“He drinks like a fish, swears like a trooper, works like a demon, performs like a playboy, talks like a truckie — and acts like a politician,” journalist Craig McGregor wrote in a 1977 profile for the National Times, three years before Mr. Hawke was elected to the House of Representatives.

From Washington Post

"It's a good highway, it takes you to a lot of places," she said, sitting by a camper she and her husband, Jeffrey, a retired Route 39 truckie, take on highway tours.

From The Wall Street Journal

Truckie's method of handling all this would make Walton's mountain collapse.

From Time Magazine Archive

We arrive at the bootleg truckie hot pools Marty put us on to sometime around midnight.

From Time Magazine Archive