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truckload

[ truhk-lohd ]

noun

  1. the amount that a truck can carry.
  2. the minimum weight legally required for making shipments at a rate truckload rate below that charged for shipments under this minimum.


truckload

/ ˈtrʌkˌləʊd /

noun

  1. the amount carried by a truck


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Word History and Origins

Origin of truckload1

First recorded in 1860–65; truck 1 + load

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Example Sentences

Instead of buying split firewood by the bundle or truckload, save some time, energy, and money doing it yourself—the easy way—with one of the best log splitters on the market now.

Last month, self-driving technology company TuSimple shipped a truckload of watermelons across the state of Texas ten hours faster than normal.

Last month TuSimple, a transportation company focused on self-driving technology for heavy-duty trucks, shipped a truckload of watermelons from Arizona to Oklahoma using the truck’s autonomous system for over 80 percent of the journey.

So, consider the logistics of bringing truckloads of explosives for Wednesday’s “Celebrating America” inauguration concert into a twitchy, locked-down Washington, less than two weeks after a deadly insurrection, during a pandemic.

It also received another truckload of Emmy nominations — 18 to be exact — more than any other primetime news cast, the third straight year it’s accomplished that feat.

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When a truckload of ‘soldiers’ from the Maidan arrived at the palace, everyone broke out in cheers of ‘Geroyem Slava’!

His only “vice,” as he puts it, is Red Bull, which he drinks by the truckload.

The defense secretary hauls out a truckload of examples of waste and mismanagement that can be safely cut.

The army provided a truckload of soldiers as escorts, and we took a circuitous route to avoid areas not considered secure.

The great media companies are laying off employees by the truckload.

One truckload of lumber at 60 per cent moisture may easily contain over 7,000 pounds of ice.

As the last truckload came in from the front, it was followed and fired on by jeering Soudanese.

During the afternoon there had been piled truckload after truckload of cordwood at the end of the company streets.

And a truckload of books and paperscleaned out a regular nest.

A truckload of Boers behind every engine would have stopped the practice for ever.

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