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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The contemporary series is set at a truck stop in southern Illinois.
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Peter White, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
Two children, ages 4 and 13, are dead and two others are in critical condition after being fatally shot at a truck stop near Angleton, Texas, officials said.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2025
The agent testified that the accused moved between Mar-a-Lago, Trump's golf club, the airport where the president keeps his plane and a truck stop where Routh was living in his SUV.
—Greg Allen, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
Accomack investigators tracked McNeal’s tractor–trailer to the US 58 truck stop near Emporia.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
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Peter White, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025
Two children, ages 4 and 13, are dead and two others are in critical condition after being fatally shot at a truck stop near Angleton, Texas, officials said.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2025
The agent testified that the accused moved between Mar-a-Lago, Trump's golf club, the airport where the president keeps his plane and a truck stop where Routh was living in his SUV.
—Greg Allen, NPR, 23 Sep. 2025
Accomack investigators tracked McNeal’s tractor–trailer to the US 58 truck stop near Emporia.
—Sarah Dahlberg, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Truck stop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truck%20stop. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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