truckman
Americannoun
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truckmen
plural
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a truckdriver.
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a person who is in the business of trucking goods, produce, etc.
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Origin of truckman
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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
Henry Herbermann did not remain a truckman for long.
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On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them.
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But it amused newspaper readers to see that a truckman could admit it.
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Frank inquired of one of the truckmen where to find a man who would sell them a first-class rowboat, and the truckman directed him to a man who had boats to let and to sell.
From Frank Merriwell's Cruise by Burt L. Standish
Trying to break up a racketeer's trucking union, the best that Allison can do is to ask honest truckmen not to join.
From Time Magazine Archive
Basis of the dispute: whether A.F. of L. or C.I.O. truckmen should deliver soda pop to the plants.
From Time Magazine Archive
These contracts give him the power to force any food dealer out of business by merely withdrawing his truckmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
When truckmen still yowled, this permission also was suspended.
From Time Magazine Archive
I reached, trying to select the whitest, as the blue-shirted truckmen climbed through the loading door.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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