Definition of truck stop
: 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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The bill would also prohibit marijuana distribution at places such as rest areas and truck stops.
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Photo released by the South Jordan Police Department shows a traffic collision involving a Tesla Model S sedan with a Fire Department mechanic truck stopped at a red light in South Jordan, Utah on May 11, 2018.
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If just one disposal plants breaks down, trucks stop collecting trash.
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The suit says the hotels and truck stops would take the reservations and do nothing when a minor girl would walk through the lobby and a series of adult men would visit the room in the course of a night.
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Police eventually got the truck stopped and took the driver into custody, police said.
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At a truck stop at the northern terminus of the Vilyui ice highway in northeastern Siberia, drivers make small talk not about life on the road but rather the life of the road.
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The officer found the truck stopped in the middle lane after traffic in front of him was braking due to the situation.
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State law covering video gambling allows an exemption from that rule for trucks stops that are on at least three acres and sell a minimum of 10,000 gallons a month of diesel or biodiesel fuel.
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First Known Use of truck stop
circa 1951
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Definition of truck stop for English Language Learners
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: a restaurant that is near a highway and that is used especially by truck drivers
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