In the yard, a decrepit truck creaked under its load of oak.
George Raft and Humphrey Bogart star as the brothers Fabrini, drivers who dream of owning their own firm but, for now, are struggling with the payments on their decrepit truck.
After a moment he pointed to one of the old, decrepit dump trucks that lined the new roadway, and motioned for us to climb up into the back, then told one of the still grinning workers to join us.
We stayed sometimes in sweet guest houses but more often in bare cement rooms full of spiders and mice and once slept on the dirt floor of a kind Cancun worker who picked up two foreign hitchhikers in his decrepit Ford truck.
Congress held hearings, focusing on the inspection records of the older, more decrepit short-haul trucks that shuttle back and forth at the border, rather than the more modern long-haul carriers used in Mexico.
This means we spend a lot of time in Joanna's truck, her decrepit hotel room and a dilapidated barn, while she is triply stalked by an abusive ex-boyfriend, a filthy hillbilly and a mysterious, sexy stranger.
Mohammad Kabir, a driver, said the trucks were so old and decrepit that they could only carry half of their normal capacity, or else they would not be able to make it over the mountains to the front lines.
When on tour in Haiti, Septen travels over the country's notoriously decrepit roads on its own bus, with a truck lugging the orchestra's instruments, sheet music and electrical generators, necessary whenever power goes out, which is often.
The building was sold over a decade ago; its new owners hired an Atlanta architect to renovate the lobby and the gloomy, decrepit ancient bathrooms, to add wainscoting of stainless steel truck-bed flooring at each landing and then, naturally enough, raised rents.
