truckmen

At one time, the bulk of deliveries to the market was made by boats, but they have ben supplanted by trucks, and it is now the truckmen who are the tough salty characters while the fishermen become anachronistic shadows.

Fulton Fish Market Magpie 2006

It is a common belief that any stout truckman can do the thing; but I have been assured by one of the leading truckmen of Boston, that there are not, probably, three individuals in the city who are equal to the accomplishment.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

The station was all light and confusion; porters were rushing about, truckmen and officials, workmen carrying coloured lanterns.

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs

He was saucy to policemen, truckmen, and anybody who undertook to treat him carelessly on the street.

A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

City of Crawberry to a market for the truckmen and farmers who drove in with their wares from the surrounding country.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

But that five-dollar bill was so scorned and snubbed by the ascendent truckmen that the doctor found himself smiling at his conceit that the poor, despised thing, when returned to his purse, went sneakingly into the farthest and deepest corner.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

Sometimes those truckmen stopped for something to eat, and they were the kind that would beat on the door till you opened up.

The Postman Always Rings Twice Cain, James 1934

Sometimes those truckmen stopped for something to eat, and they were the kind that would beat on the door till you opened up.

ThePostmanAlwaysRingsTwice Cain, James 1934

A half dozen others, who apparently were truckmen and hoistmen, completed, with Philander, the cook and the bunkhouse cleaner, the human crew at this mine.

Man of Many Minds 1925

And here was this meeting -- thousands of workingmen, horny handed blacksmiths, longshoremen with shoulders like barns and truckmen with fists like battering rams, long-haired radicals of a hundred dangerous varieties, women who waved red handkerchiefs and shrieked until to Peter they seemed like gorgons with snakes instead of hair.

100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923