trucking
noun
truck·ing ˈtrə-kiŋ 
: the process or business of transporting goods on trucks
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The municipal supply dries up when the power is cut by shelling, and one of the fire department’s new jobs is trucking water from the treatment plant to 80 plastic tanks that the government has placed around the city. 
Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022 LaCroix, the battalion chief, said crews have been trucking water to the scene, which is about a mile into the woods. Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022 The most controversial option was trucking coal ash through a part of the city that was more than 80 percent Black. Darryl Fears, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2022 This allows farmers in San Diego, for example, to supply produce to regional customers rather than trucking in produce from farmers in California’s Central Valley. Bryan Fried, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022 One report estimated conservatively that over 8,100 people employed in the trucking, fuel and freight businesses in the county would lose their jobs. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022 Some of the interventions — including patching up leaks and trucking in water — mean some who had lost their water supplies at home are starting to get a trickle from their taps at night. CNN, 20 June 2022 Latitude 36 is grown exclusively in San Diego County by American Sod Farms, which within the next two weeks will be harvesting the grass and trucking it down to Mission Valley for installation at Snapdragon Stadium. San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2022 The households were selected for their proximity to the Central L.A. Recycling and Transfer Station, where the organic waste will be delivered and consolidated for trucking to the composting facility. Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022 See More
Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022 LaCroix, the battalion chief, said crews have been trucking water to the scene, which is about a mile into the woods. Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022 The most controversial option was trucking coal ash through a part of the city that was more than 80 percent Black. Darryl Fears, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2022 This allows farmers in San Diego, for example, to supply produce to regional customers rather than trucking in produce from farmers in California’s Central Valley. Bryan Fried, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022 One report estimated conservatively that over 8,100 people employed in the trucking, fuel and freight businesses in the county would lose their jobs. New York Times, 7 Aug. 2022 Some of the interventions — including patching up leaks and trucking in water — mean some who had lost their water supplies at home are starting to get a trickle from their taps at night. CNN, 20 June 2022 Latitude 36 is grown exclusively in San Diego County by American Sod Farms, which within the next two weeks will be harvesting the grass and trucking it down to Mission Valley for installation at Snapdragon Stadium. San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2022 The households were selected for their proximity to the Central L.A. Recycling and Transfer Station, where the organic waste will be delivered and consolidated for trucking to the composting facility. Karen Garciastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1809, in the meaning defined above