truck driver

Example Sentences

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The moment he got his employment authorization, he announced a plan to take a job in Florida as a long-haul truck driver.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

A truck driver has been lightly injured after a United Airlines plane clipped his vehicle and a streetlight as it approached Newark Airport in New Jersey on Sunday.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

Cynthia decided to do it herself, so she called her estranged husband, Don Gonzalez, a truck driver, and asked him to leave work to pick up their daughter.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

"Every day, we hear the sound of drones," Waad Abdulrazaq, a 31-year-old truck driver, told AFP near Iraq's Erbil international airport, which has faced regular attacks by pro-Iran groups.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Later, when Mr. Costa came in to sweep, he listened to the radio sing a mournful song about a lonely truck driver in jail who longed for his eighteen-wheel rig and the open highway.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary