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• n  someone who drives a truck as an occupation

• The author is a sometime trucker who, for the past seven years, has been using a three-quarter-ton pickup to deliver honey from her bee farm to retailers around the country.
• There is practically no enforcement of the regulations which limit the number of hours a trucker may be on the road.
• The FBI says killer truckers are abducting prostitutes and other women at truck stops, raping them and leaving their bodies along the nation's highways.

• teamster
• truck driver

News & Articles

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• Ga. trucker killed in Ala. interstate crash
  Authorities have identified a trucker who died in a four-vehicle crash on a stretch of I-85 in western Alabama.
  June 13, 2013 - CBS 46 News Atlanta
• Virginia trucker charged in double-fatal crash
  A Virginia trucker has been charged with causing a highway crash in November that killed a Denver man and his 2-year-old son.Mawuyrayrassuna E. Noviho, 23, is charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and related offenses for the Nov. 12 evening crash on Route 222 in Manheim Township.Noviho was ...
  June 7, 2013 - Lancaster Online
• Georgia trucker caught with illegal handgun outside New Cumberland military base
  A Georgia trucker about to enter the Defense Logistics Agency in Cumberland is found to be in possession of an illegal handgun. Police at the former New Cumberland Army Depot called Fairview Township Police at around 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.…
  June 6, 2013 - FOX 43 Harrisburg

Quotes

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• John McCain in Reuters
  The effect will be an immediate economic stimulus -- taking a few dollars off the price of a tank of gas every time a family, a farmer or trucker stops to fill up,McCain said in a major speech on the economy.
• Justin Timberlake in Contactmusic.com
  Timberlake says, "It's funny. I keep hearing Ashton Kutcher say how he was responsible for trucker caps. I've heard him make that statement before. Trace and I were wearing them when we were seventeen. We just kind of didn't care. We kind of still...
• Richard Gere in Reuters India
  It is the emotional barrenness of the job which is the culprit,Gere told reporters before the event. "The trucker community has to help each other out to change their behaviour. That's where real change will come."