truck
Example Sentences
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The deputies responded to the scene in personal work trucks rather than the department’s bomb truck, the claim alleges.
From Los Angeles Times
"Compared with the pre-war months, the oil companies earned a daily excess profit of 75.3 million euros from the sale of diesel fuel to cars and trucks," the report said.
From Barron's
Rising diesel prices stemming from the conflict poses an elevated risk to Tidlor as its truck title loan exposure accounts for 16% of total loans, the analyst says.
The likeliest option may be an expensive truck route across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea port of Jeddah and then on to New York.
And average national prices for diesel, the fuel used by most delivery trucks, has seen an even larger increase, up to $5.45 a gallon from around $3.76 before the war began, according to AAA.
From Los Angeles Times
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