truckman
Americannoun
plural
truckmen-
a truckdriver.
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a person who is in the business of trucking goods, produce, etc.
Etymology
Origin of truckman
Example Sentences
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Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig�a tractor and a double-tank trailer.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it amused newspaper readers to see that a truckman could admit it.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Cuban broker by the name of Jorge de Zaldo was just about to receive the trunk when Elmer & Rudolph swooped, arrested broker and truckman, opened the trunk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grofe's family in-tended him for business so at 14 he ran away, became an elevator operator, then a truckman, a milkman, a heaver in an iron foundry, a pressman in a bookbindery.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I told you you would have bad luck," said the truckman.
From Frank Merriwell's Cruise by Standish, Burt L.
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