big rig

Example Sentences

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It forces cargoes that should be waterborne to go by train or big rig.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Eventually, they stopped the truck at a 10 Freeway underpass near Alameda and Newton streets and ditched the big rig.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2025

Video from the scene showed firefighters working on the wreckage of a white sedan with the driverside windshield shattered and caved in with a big rig tire nearby.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

To great fanfare, Musk introduced the Tesla Semi all-electric big rig in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

The world fades until a big rig whips by me.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty