Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or the business of conveying goods by trucks or wagons.
  • noun Exchanging; bartering; barter.
  • noun The selling of small commodities; petty trade.
  • noun The selling of garden-truck; truck-farming.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The business of conveying goods on trucks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Trading, bartering.
  • noun US the conveyance of freight by trucks.
  • noun broadcasting Lateral movement of the camera.
  • verb Present participle of truck.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the activity of transporting goods by truck

Etymologies

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From truck.

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Examples

  • In 1993, the NTSB commissioned a study expecting to learn about the role of drug and alcohol use in trucking accidents.

    Transportation safety: Efforts to curb fatigue-related accidents often languish Tessa Muggeridge 2010

  • Regardless of how freight ships across the country or around the world, short-haul trucking is going to remain essential for getting goods to their final destination.

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  • In 1993, the NTSB commissioned a study expecting to learn about the role of drug and alcohol use in trucking accidents.

    Transportation safety: Efforts to curb fatigue-related accidents often languish Tessa Muggeridge 2010

  • It also lays along the main trucking route to bring goods in and out of the Congo and Central African Republic.

    A little break « Cameroon 2008

  • Down the main trucking highway from the border to Mexico City (wide lanes, good surface, heavy truck traffic) but easy driving and boring, bypassing San Luis Potosí and then at Querétaro the junction of the Mexico city-Guadalarara cuota you swing right to Salamanca and there swing left (south) on Mexico 43, a straight and mainly level shot directly to Morelia on two lane but well surfaced and not heavily trafficked highway.

    Best Route Denver, CO to Morelia 2006

  • This whole route from the point where you drop off the toll road at the Monterrey Periferico intersection with the Saltillo Canyon highway is the main trucking route from Laredo USA to Mexico City and other Mexican points.

    Safety concerns about Laredo-N.L crossing 2005

  • Ithaca Produce pays employees living wages by the county's standards, and the move would take their 24-hour trucking from a location in close contact with surrounding residents to a more isolated location that still has good access to the highway.

    Living in Dryden: May 2004 Archives 2004

  • Ithaca Produce pays employees living wages by the county's standards, and the move would take their 24-hour trucking from a location in close contact with surrounding residents to a more isolated location that still has good access to the highway.

    Living in Dryden: School candidates, Ithaca Produce, more 2004

  • In this region, woods work and trucking is predominant.

    The Need For Unity In Canada 1966

  • Step It Down has a section on the "Zudie-O", a dance which incorporated "trucking" --

    The Annotated "Truckin'" Robert Hunter 1970

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