trucking

noun

truck·​ing ˈtrə-kiŋ How to pronounce trucking (audio)
: the process or business of transporting goods on trucks

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The board member was an executive with Carolina Freight, then one of the top trucking companies in America. Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 7 June 2025 The drop in foreign goods could mean fewer jobs at the warehouses that store them and the trucking companies that haul them around, wrote Michael Madowitz, an economist at the left-leaning Roosevelt Institute. Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025 But trucking companies in general, which already have been navigating through a three-year freight recession, have had to deal with blowback from the duties initially put into effect in April. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 June 2025 As ports slow, trucking layoffs mount and inflation creeps higher, the ripple effects are being felt by everyone, but especially by retirees and those approaching retirement. David Abreu, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for trucking

Word History

First Known Use

1809, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of trucking was in 1809

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“Trucking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trucking. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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