How to Use trucking in a Sentence

trucking

noun
  • Keep on trucking: The big reveal of the night wasn’t a surprise guest.
    Luis Gomez, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2022
  • But first: The look-alike-contest trend keeps on trucking.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
  • He was banned from two Gulf states and fired from a trucking company.
    Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
  • For those of you familiar with trucking in the United States, that might not seem like a lot.
    New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2024
  • LaCroix, the battalion chief, said crews have been trucking water to the scene, which is about a mile into the woods.
    Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Y’all hate on this truck even though this redefines what trucking should have been.
    Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 30 July 2024
  • The yellow school bus is an iconic piece of Americana, trucking kids to-and-from school for decades.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune Asia, 10 Aug. 2024
  • For the trucking industry to survive, more people like Amélie will need to fill the drivers' seats.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Jan. 2023
  • For now, Foster is saving up while trying to get a new long-haul trucking business off the ground.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Prices of the diesel that largely fuel the nation’s trucking fleets and supply chains also have soared.
    Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The most controversial option was trucking coal ash through a part of the city that was more than 80 percent Black.
    Darryl Fears, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2022
  • For more than a month, the scientists have been netting fish and trucking them to nearby holding ponds.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The trucking shortage, however, has extended that time frame to as long as four to five months.
    Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Chris Hancock, who has been in the trucking industry for over 25 years, has seen his fair share of changes in the last few decades but has never seen diesel prices this high.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 July 2022
  • His father, trained as a lawyer, ran a trucking company.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • The higher fuel costs will be passed on by trucking companies in the form of fuel surcharges.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Johnson said Arias-Lopez told him his father had once run a trucking company in Guatemala.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • What's next: The company is eyeing the more fragmented freight or trucking space, Kober says.
    Richard Collings, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • By 2035, the trucking industry could cut its emissions in half compared to what would have happened without the bill.
    WIRED, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Falla’s evocations are of his own time and place, not a trucking in allegories.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • As a result, the company has taken steps like hiring its own trucking staff.
    New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • There are a half a dozen divisions of trucking [affected].
    Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The Brent Spence is part of one of the busiest trucking routes in the United States, carrying more than $1 billion worth of freight every day and more than $400 billion worth of freight every year.
    Briana Rice, The Enquirer, 7 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Batteries, for example, currently can take up a lot of space and also weigh a lot, making their use an issue for air travel and long-haul trucking.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024

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