How to Use trucking in a Sentence
trucking
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He was banned from two Gulf states and fired from a trucking company.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
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For the trucking industry to survive, more people like Amélie will need to fill the drivers' seats.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
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There’s also a shakeout among the brokers who match trucking companies with loads that need to be shipped.
—Thomas Black, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022
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Like elsewhere, costs have risen across the board, including costs for delivery and trucking, potting soil and even the wind chimes found in the gift shop.
—Mae Anderson, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
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The impacts of TRAPs can be seen most clearly in an industry that has made use of all kinds of stay-or-pay clauses: trucking.
—Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
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Be sure to check with the trucking company or pool contractor to confirm that there’s enough space for the crane to operate.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2023
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Along with a trucking company, Ismail had six children, the oldest being 13, and a baby on the way.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2023
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Johnson said Arias-Lopez told him his father had once run a trucking company in Guatemala.
—Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
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Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
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The company spent three hundred thousand dollars trucking in loads of clay from a vein near Fort Myers.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
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No other trucking company appears to be in this kind of trouble.
—Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
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There are still a number of smaller companies, not as big as Cruise, not as big as Waymo, that are still working on trucking.
—WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
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On the other end of the spectrum, long-haul trucking remains a significant challenge.
—Camila Domonoske, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
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The driver gave officers the license plate number of the truck, which was registered to a trucking company.
—Zach Mentz, cleveland, 21 July 2023
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Both of them are ex-employees of Uber and Convoy, an on-demand trucking company.
—Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
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Graves, a former lawmaker who ran the legal department of a trucking firm, urgently worked the phone.
—Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
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To mitigate the risk of supply disruption, a trucking company was paid a fair sum to be on call to provide trucks if needed.
—Todd Zabelle, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
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Through the decades, his father, four uncles, all of his brothers and three brothers-in-law have held jobs at the newspaper, from the composing room and trucking to mailroom and the presses.
—Joe Timmerman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2024
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Imagine trucking home a 500-pound sea bass only to learn later that no one at home actually likes sea bass.
—Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 11 June 2024
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Summey put herself through night school and worked at the former trucking company in town, Carolina Freight, for 39 years.
—Kevin Ellis, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2022
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Ten states have signed on to follow its regulatory lead in trucking.
—Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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In Scotland, for example, trucking in material for a stock fence from far away could cost upwards of $5,000, New said.
—Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2023
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The road ahead for XPO is an excursion the trucking company is only beginning to travel.
—John Kell, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
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When Covid snarled supply chains just as people were online shopping for their lockdown lifestyles, tens of thousands of workers bet big on the trucking boom.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 3 July 2023
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His father, also named Henry, was a rate clerk for trucking companies.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 June 2023
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Organized by the founders of an autonomous trucking startup, the trip had brought together a group of young entrepreneurs and investors.
—Tom Simonite, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2022
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Jay LeRette is a holy therapist whose vantage point on the trucking industry is at once intimate and panoramic.
—Andrew Kay, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2023
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The 99-year-old trucking company filed for bankruptcy and is closing the business, falling victim to mounting debt.
—WSJ, 7 Aug. 2023
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Connecticut’s trucking industry will face a small tax hike next month when the state tax on diesel fuel rises slightly more than 3 cents per gallon.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2024
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The current plan would have undermined the trucking industry’s ability to cost-effectively deliver goods in and out of Manhattan, and ultimately drivers, businesses and consumers would have footed the bill.
—Zach Miller, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
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