Sentence examples for lorry owners from inspiring English sources

Cummins, a maker of heavy-duty engines, is doing good business with its new natural-gas engine as lorry owners re-equip their fleets to comply with new EPA regulations, starting in 2014, for lower carbon-dioxide emissions.

Playing the fuelThe French government made fuel-tax concessions to pressure groups, including lorry owners and farmers, who had brought much of the country to a standstill by blockading roads and petrol stations.

Lorry owners from France's leading road hauliers' federation, the FNTR, refused to follow their leaders' call yesterday afternoon to end the blockade, which has closed 14,000 of the country's 17,000 petrol stations and caused severe disruption.

Earlier Austrian police said the lorry owner was a Bulgarian citizen of Lebanese origin.

Lorry owner Babayé Tandina says the residents of Timbuktu are furious: "We used to collect banco next to airport.

Essex lorry owner's reaction to Grays sinkhole.

Across much of Europe, cars and businesses have been brought to a halt as lorry-owners, farmers and taxi drivers blockade oil refineries, ports and city centres in protest against high fuel prices.

The campaign which had begun in earnest after the September nationalisation of the copper mines (no compensation was forthcoming), peaked for the first time in October the following year with an armed strike by bus and lorry-owners.

The lorry's owner is four-year-old Lucas.

"Everyone here is steeped in debt," said Maradi Basavraj, president of the Lorry Owners Associationn in Danapur, in a field where around 50 idle lorries are parked, their owners huddled together in anxious groups.

"To rebel is a duty". In a loosely formed movement which has gone largely by the name of I Forconi (the Pitchforks), lorry drivers, farmers, small business owners, students and unemployed people staged protests venting their fury at a political class which they blame for Italy's longest post-war recession and want to "send home".