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
  • The site would then host a transfer station for trucking trash of the state.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 25 May 2021
  • 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
  • During the trucking project to the Bay area, it is estimated that 80% of the salmon which make the trip will survive.
    — Jordan Strickler, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • 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
  • That leaves the state unable to force trucking businesses to clean up their fleets.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Shares of the trucking and logistics company have pulled back more than 23% over the past year.
    — Brian Evans, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Walmart said that its work with Cruise is not related to its long-haul trucking fleet.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • His parents were Isaac Berman, who ran the family’s trucking firm, and Sarah Small, a stay-at-home mother.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
  • And on top of it all, the DA was not going to charge the trucking company with any violations.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Her husband, Joseph O’Connell, a sales consultant in the trucking business, died in 1994.
    — New York Times, 14 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Jerry had served prison time for a drug charge in 2005 but turned his life around with his trucking company and has not had a run-in with the law in nearly a decade.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • 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 president of a Crestwood trucking company found dead in his business after a fire Wednesday evening died of an incision to his neck, officials said.
    — Samantha Moilanen, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025

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