truckman

Noun

truckman (plural truckmen)

1. One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
2. One who drives a truck (usually in the older sense, a kind of horse-drawn wagon), or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
   • The truckmen themselves are almost as singular a race as their animals. Like the Judiciary in England, they wear gowns,—­not of the same cut and color though,—­which reach below their knees; and from the racket they make on the pavements with their hob-nailed brogans, you would think they...1849, Herman Melville, Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
   • Like most New York truckmen, Carney owned his own team and wagon; but unlike most of them, he hired out by the day, instead of by the week—for he had the best horses on the water-front[…]1914, Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Silent Sam and Other Stories of Our Day

   Synonyms:

   trucker