truck driver

Example Sentences

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With fuel prices persistently high, the truck driver now sticks to an average 62 mph to 65 mph.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 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

Immigrant rights groups said the new federal guidelines create severe economic hardship for immigrant commercial drivers in California, who are lawfully qualified to work but cannot obtain licenses, exacerbating a truck driver shortage.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

The truck driver does not have Pa’s driving skills, nor does he care whether those of us in the back bounce and bump into one another.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung