tractor-trailer

[trak-ter-trey-ler]

noun

1. a combination trucking unit consisting of a tractor hooked up to a full trailer or a semitrailer.

Example Sentences

Citing an increased number of immigrants who are driving large tractor-trailer trucks, Rubio suggested they are endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.

From Slate

"The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers," Rubio wrote in a post on X on Thursday.

From BBC

The company alleged in the suit that the figure was drawn from manifests signed by its jeweler customers ahead of the tractor-trailer’s departure from San Mateo.

From Los Angeles Times

By doing the reduction work close to the disaster site, debris that initially filled three or four dump trucks can be consolidated into one large semi tractor-trailer load.

From Los Angeles Times

A few years later, in June 2014, Morgan was involved in a five-vehicle crash with a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike.

From Los Angeles Times