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  • noun Attributive form of truck driver

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Examples

  • Federal regulators say the measures are necessary to prevent highway fatalities caused by truck-driver fatigue, which was cited as a possible cause in the deaths of six people last month when an 18-wheeler plowed into an Amtrak train in Nevada.

    Truck Firms Gird for New Limits Angus Loten 2011

  • "We 're ready to join the movement," Maxime Dumont, head of the truck-driver branch at the CFDT union, told French television.

    French Unions Threaten New Actions David Gauthier-Villars 2010

  • The kind the rich girls have, beyond the budget of her beloved truck-driver dad.

    Book Awards 2009

  • Thieves Highway (1949): When his truck-driver father is crippled by a crooked San Francisco fruit merchant (Lee J. Cobb), war veteranNick Garcos (Richard Conte) drives a truckload of apples up the pre-freeway California coast to get even.

    Up All Night With Too Many Movies « Screaming Blue Reviews 2009

  • The kind the rich girls have, beyond the budget of her beloved truck-driver dad.

    BC Book Prizes 2008 winners 2008

  • The kind the rich girls have, beyond the budget of her beloved truck-driver dad.

    April 2008 2008

  • In 1945, McGee, a handsome black truck-driver, was jailed for allegedly raping a white housewife named Willette Hawkins in Laurel, Miss. -- while her husband slept in a nearby room and a small child slept beside her.

    Alex Heard's "The Eyes of Willie McGee," reviewed by Michael Kazin 2010

  • Among the other witnesses to her ordeal are a sleazy Italian truck-driver, a group of alpine hunters adept at smuggling people over the high border into Austria, a British film researcher, a snail collector and a blind German man, all of whom play more or less significant parts in the search for the lost child.

    Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones – review James Purdon 2010

  • At a brief news conference afterward, Mr. Jacobellis talked about how, while sliding down the hill following her disqualification, she performed "a truck-driver grab," not as an act of defiance but to show people who haven't snowboarded how much fun it can be.

    Why the Olympics Need More Adults Kevin Helliker 2010

  • Following his army service he joined Granada Theatres, but decided that indoor life was not for him and subsequently took jobs as a labourer in a market garden and as a truck-driver.

    Geoffrey Mark Steve 2010

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