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- noun Attributive form of
truck driver
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Examples
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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
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"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
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The kind the rich girls have, beyond the budget of her beloved truck-driver dad.
Book Awards 2009
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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
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The kind the rich girls have, beyond the budget of her beloved truck-driver dad.
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The kind the rich girls have, beyond the budget of her beloved truck-driver dad.
April 2008 2008
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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
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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
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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
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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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