Sentence examples for trucker from inspiring English sources

An improvised cardboard sign, scrawled with "La Rochelle, SVP" worked its magic on a trucker named Olivier and I was soon rolling into this sophisticated old port, perched vertiginously in the cockpit of the 18-wheel juggernaut.

Two years later he sold his stake to William, and took no part in the new, publicly listed company.He told Hunter Davies, who wrote his firm's biography, that he never saw himself as a trucker.

On January 24th a striking lorry driver was run over and killed by a German trucker, who was detained by police.

A retired prison guard in a trucker hat and bristly moustache said that he and his friends had been coming to the Texas festival several times a year for the past 20 years.

Happily the intrepid cablers were able to improvise a beekeeper's outfit from four Thomas Pink shirts (taken from the boss's suitcase), a pair of overalls, some insulating tape and a mosquito net expensively acquired from a trucker queuing at the nearby border post.A fainthearted firm might have given up.

He follows a Kenyan trucker on his deliveries across east Africa, exploring the role played by roads, drivers and prostitutes in spreading AIDS across the continent, while lamenting the loss of the free and easy trucking lifestyle now that every driver can be tracked with mobile phones.

Even when those are paid, local authorities send thugs out to get more".They make you buy new paperwork," one trucker says.

Tom Martin of the American Preppers Network, a trucker who delivered aid to victims of Hurricane Ike in Texas, was amazed to see people who were not poor lining up for bottled water.

The scandal, which gained momentum after six children were killed in a crash caused by an illegally licensed trucker, haunted Mr Ryan's governorship, denying him any chance of a second term.But Mr Fitzgerald is aiming much wider than just the truckers, claiming that "the state of Illinois was for sale" under Mr Ryan.

EVEN a tone-deaf trucker knows that the most famous, the most expensive, the most desired violin in the world today is a Stradivarius.

IT IS hard to tell whether Dave Hickey, with his grizzled trucker looks and Texan drawl, is a backwoods curmudgeon or a thoughtful hipster of the contemporary-art world.