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  2. Glossary of the American trucking industry - Wikipedia

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    A specialized set of jargon describe the tools, equipment, and employment sectors used in the trucking industry in the United States. Some terms may be used within other English-speaking countries, or within the freight industry in general (air, rail, ship, and manufacturing). For example, shore power is a term borrowed from shipping ...

  3. Trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A common property-carrying commercial vehicle in the United States is the tractor-trailer, also known as an "18-wheeler" or "semi".. The trucking industry serves the American economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, works in process, and finished goods over land—typically from manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.

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    1 Glossary of trucking industry terms in the United States. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: ...

  5. Category:Glossaries of transportation - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of the American trucking industry; Glossary of automotive design; C. Glossary of cycling; M. Glossary of motorcycling terms; R. Glossary of road transport terms

  6. List of CB slang - Wikipedia

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    CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, [1] when it was an important part of the culture of the trucking industry. The slang itself is not only cyclical, but also geographical.

  7. One industry just got a big boost from Trump — and it wasn't ...

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    The industry anticipated as much. George Zoley, the executive chairman of the GEO Group, a for-profit prison company, said on an earnings call in November that he expected Trump to reverse all of ...

  8. Trump's Transportation Secretary Reveals Plans to Roll Back ...

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    Citing an ample amount of domestic oil, biofuel feedstocks, and refineries available to Americans, Duffy's January 28 memo is instructing the National Highway Transportation Safety Administrayoon ...

  9. Glossary of road transport terms - Wikipedia

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    See three-way junction 5-1-1 A transportation and traffic information telephone hotline in some regions of the United States and Canada that was initially designated for road weather information. A Access road See frontage road Advisory speed limit A speed recommendation by a governing body. All-way stop or four-way stop An intersection system where traffic approaching it from all directions ...