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  • On midnight of our fourth breakdown, our visas expired as we sat outside at a truck stop, waiting for two shapka-wearing mechanics to repair the car and watching truck-drivers take local prostitutes into the back room.

    Finding Yourself in a Country That Isn't Neil Strauss 2011

  • Either way, she continues to take money from the hard-working nurses, truck-drivers, waitresses, single mothers, etc that she referenced in her speech last night by duping them into thinking she still has a chance.

    Poll shows both Clinton and Obama beating McCain 2008

  • The takings are often high, and so the profession has attracted thousands of recruits — retired baseball players, work-weary plumbers, truck-drivers, longshoremen, bogus dentists, dubious preachers, cashiered school superintendents.

    Stiff Neck? Edstock 2009

  • And truck-drivers and other blue-collar whites are not exactly the core constituency for gay marriage in America today …

    Matthew Yglesias » Fine Young Social Democrats 2007

  • Elect the guy that has been saying since the beginning of 2007 that the economy is not going well if “you talk to the truck-drivers, taxi-cab workers” and the one who has reached out you the youth and minorities—Vote For Mike Huckabee in 2012!

    Cruisin’ Toward 2012? - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Some of the truck-drivers too, if they're not transporting booster components.

    Fire in the Sky Zoe Brain 2007

  • Some of the truck-drivers too, if they're not transporting booster components.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Zoe Brain 2007

  • A couple of days ago Polunatic drew our attention to an American congressman who was attempting to strike a blow for the freedom of truck-drivers.

    Peace, order and good government, eh?: March 2005 Archives 2005

  • When mobs raided the news-stands, at each was stationed a militiaman, a young, embarrassed citizen-soldier with eye-glasses, bookkeeper or grocery-clerk in private life, trying to look dangerous while small boys yelped, “Get onto de tin soldier!” and striking truck-drivers inquired tenderly,

    Babbit 2004

  • In a separate statement, DP Senator Errol Moorcroft said truck-drivers should not "hold the entire country to ransom by their anarchical behaviour".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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