1
: a person whose business is transporting goods by truck
2
: a truck driver
Examples of trucker in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2024
What’s more, the government continues to push the law to new levels of absurdity to justify shutting down legitimate dissent: on December 1, the Justice Ministry branded a long-haul truckers’ group, which has been protesting road taxes for two years, a foreign agent.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2017
Add truckers to the list of opponents seeking to block New York’s first-in-the-nation congestion fee for driving into Manhattan.
—Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 31 May 2024
Who’s Afraid of Double Denim?: Time to make way for another kind of suit, pairing a trucker jacket with matching jeans.
—Jessica Roy, New York Times, 26 May 2024
Frederick Mensah, independent operator of Cilla Transportation, is among the hundreds of truckers who move containers and other cargo in and out of the port, many of whom don’t qualify for unemployment and can’t afford to take on even low-interest loans.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2024
With restrictions and checkpoints, the minimum fee that truckers are now accepting is $535 to take goods from Israel into Ramallah – driving up costs for consumers.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
Once opened back up, thousands of dockworkers, truckers and business owners should see relief as business slowly returns.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 14 May 2024
Once the ship is removed, maritime traffic can begin returning to normal, which will provide relief for thousands of longshoremen, truckers and small business owners who have seen their jobs impacted by the closure.
—Lea Skene, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2024
Noun
While the pinch has been felt most acutely in Maryland, where port activities generate nearly 20,000 jobs and account for more than 50,000 more indirectly, the ripples have spread to manufacturers, steamship lines, container companies, truckers, dock workers, suppliers and others.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2024
What’s more, the government continues to push the law to new levels of absurdity to justify shutting down legitimate dissent: on December 1, the Justice Ministry branded a long-haul truckers’ group, which has been protesting road taxes for two years, a foreign agent.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2017
Add truckers to the list of opponents seeking to block New York’s first-in-the-nation congestion fee for driving into Manhattan.
—Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 31 May 2024
Who’s Afraid of Double Denim?: Time to make way for another kind of suit, pairing a trucker jacket with matching jeans.
—Jessica Roy, New York Times, 26 May 2024
Frederick Mensah, independent operator of Cilla Transportation, is among the hundreds of truckers who move containers and other cargo in and out of the port, many of whom don’t qualify for unemployment and can’t afford to take on even low-interest loans.
—Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2024
With restrictions and checkpoints, the minimum fee that truckers are now accepting is $535 to take goods from Israel into Ramallah – driving up costs for consumers.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
Once opened back up, thousands of dockworkers, truckers and business owners should see relief as business slowly returns.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 14 May 2024
Once the ship is removed, maritime traffic can begin returning to normal, which will provide relief for thousands of longshoremen, truckers and small business owners who have seen their jobs impacted by the closure.
—Lea Skene, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2024
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'trucker.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Dictionary Entries Near trucker
Cite this Entry
“Trucker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trucker. Accessed 15 Jun. 2024.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share