truckload
Americannoun
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the amount that a truck can carry.
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the minimum weight legally required for making shipments at a rate truckload rate below that charged for shipments under this minimum.
noun
Etymology
Origin of truckload
Example Sentences
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Bedard notes, however, that there are “very early signs” from its truckload sector that “things will start to get better during 2026.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
One more truckload can be expected once the weather is warm enough.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
He drove a truckload of his freshly harvested beans last month to a Cargill-owned storage elevator in Florence, Ill., but was turned away while the facility unloaded its crop onto a barge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
The company’s intermodal—freight which moves by both truck and rail—expanded profit margins on little volume growth, but the truckload business realized lower income on higher sales.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
If so, one might be tempted to simply deliver a truckload of books to every home that contains a preschooler.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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