truck stop
noun
: a facility especially for truckers that is usually by a highway and that includes a diner, fuel pumps, and a garage
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Those two tractor-trailer-ready diesel fueling stations would make this gas station count as a truck stop under Aurora city ordinances, but the facility wouldn’t have any of the typical amenities of a truck stop like showers or even places to park tractor trailers.
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R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Two sheriff’s deputies were struck by gunfire during a fatal shoot-out with a wanted man at a Virginia truck stop.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The suspect was located at a truck stop in Holland, Michigan, about 145 miles from Crestwood, police said.
—Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Pyles is circling back to his childhood in a Big Spring truck stop.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
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R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Two sheriff’s deputies were struck by gunfire during a fatal shoot-out with a wanted man at a Virginia truck stop.
—Bailey Richards, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The suspect was located at a truck stop in Holland, Michigan, about 145 miles from Crestwood, police said.
—Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
Pyles is circling back to his childhood in a Big Spring truck stop.
—Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for truck stop
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“Truck stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck%20stop. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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