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roll the trucks

roll the trucks verb: to alert and deploy ARFF emergency vehicles to the scene of an aircraft accident, incident, or emergency landing on or near an airport.

Verb

roll the trucks (third-person singular simple present rolls the trucks, present participle rolling the trucks, simple past and past participle rolled the trucks)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To alert and deploy ARFF emergency vehicles to the scene of an aircraft accident, incident, or emergency landing on or near an airport.
    • About 2211:04, the first officer contacted the ground controller to inform him that aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) was needed because of a cargo fire. The controller then confirmed that the first officer was reporting an aircraft fire and stated, about 2211:24, 'we're gonna roll the trucks...2009 June 30, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Ground Fire Aboard Cargo Airplane, ABX Air Flight 1611, Boeing 767-200, N799AX, San...

Forms of roll the trucks

third-person singular presentrolls the trucks
present participlerolling the trucks
past participlerolled the trucks
pastrolled the trucks

Questions about roll the trucks

What does roll the trucks mean?
Roll the trucks means to alert and deploy ARFF emergency vehicles to the scene of an aircraft accident, incident, or emergency landing on or near an airport.
What part of speech is roll the trucks?
Roll the trucks is a verb.
What is the past tense of roll the trucks?
The past tense of roll the trucks is rolled the trucks.

Words near roll the trucks in the dictionary

  1. roll steps
  2. roll tape
  3. roll the dice
  4. roll the pitch
  5. roll the tape
  6. roll the trucks
  7. roll tide
  8. roll up
  9. roll up on
  10. roll up one's sleeves
  11. roll up the sidewalks

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