Definition of Trucking

1. Noun. The activity of transporting goods by truck.

Exact synonyms: Hauling, Truckage
Generic synonyms: Shipping, Transport, Transportation
Specialized synonyms: Cartage, Carting
Derivative terms: Haul, Haul, Truck, Truck

Definition of Trucking

1. n. The business of conveying goods on trucks.

Definition of Trucking

1. Noun. (rare) Trading, bartering. ¹

2. Noun. (American English) the conveyance of freight by trucks. ¹

3. Noun. (broadcasting) Lateral movement of the camera. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of truck) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trucking

1. truckage [n -S] - See also: truckage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trucking

truck traffic
truckable
truckage
truckages
truckbed
truckbeds
trucked
trucker
trucker's hitch
trucker's hitches
truckers
truckful
truckfuls
truckie
truckies
trucking (current term)
trucking company
trucking industry
trucking rig
trucking shot
truckings
truckish
truckle
truckle bed
truckle beds
truckled
truckler
trucklers
truckles
truckless

Literary usage of Trucking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Floors for trucking Aisles.—Special precautions are necessary in building floors where heavy trucking is to be done. Wood block flooring can be used if ..."

2. Cost Accounting: Principles and Practice by John Packard Jordan, Gould Leach Harris (1920)
"It is easier to get the total cost than to distribute it and to establish a basic unit whereby the efficiency with which the trucking is handled may be ..."

3. Joint Report with Comprehensive Plan and Recommendations by William Russell Willcox (1920)
"GENERAL CLASSES OF trucking There are four general classes into which trucking may be ... General trucking or Truck Livery — The general truckman or truck ..."

4. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee (1905)
"63—77 Southern trucking interests. The first northern consignments of Southern ... Causes of growth in Southern trucking. The negro as a laborer in the ..."

5. Civil Procedure Reports: Containing Cases Under the Code of Civil Procedure by New York (State), Henry Huffman Browne, Courts, Rufus Leonard Scott, James Manford Kerr, Percival Soloman Menken (1905)
"NEW YORK CONTRACTING & trucking COMPANY v. McDOUGALL HAWKES, AS COMMISSIONER OF DOCKS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, AND THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ..."

6. The Rise of the New South by Philip Alexander Bruce (1905)
"63-77 Southern trucking interests. The first northern consignments of Southern ... Causes of growth in Southern trucking. The negro as a laborer in the ..."

7. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"South Carolina. Agriculture, commerce and immigration, State dept. of. trucking Industry in South Carolina; reprint of extract from Annual report for 1906. ..."

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