How to Use trucking in a Sentence

trucking

noun
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  • He was banned from two Gulf states and fired from a trucking company.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
  • For the trucking industry to survive, more people like Amélie will need to fill the drivers' seats.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Johnson said Arias-Lopez told him his father had once run a trucking company in Guatemala.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • 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
  • No other trucking company appears to be in this kind of trouble.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • On the other end of the spectrum, long-haul trucking remains a significant challenge.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The driver gave officers the license plate number of the truck, which was registered to a trucking company.
    — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • Both of them are ex-employees of Uber and Convoy, an on-demand trucking company.
    — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
  • Graves, a former lawmaker who ran the legal department of a trucking firm, urgently worked the phone.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ten states have signed on to follow its regulatory lead in trucking.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The road ahead for XPO is an excursion the trucking company is only beginning to travel.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • His father, also named Henry, was a rate clerk for trucking companies.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The 99-year-old trucking company filed for bankruptcy and is closing the business, falling victim to mounting debt.
    — WSJ, 7 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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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