[f. TRUCK sb.2]
1. trans. To put on or into a truck; to convey by means of a truck or trucks.
1809. [see trucking below].
1864. Pall Mall G., 4 Sept., 10/2. At stations where cattle are trucked, special accommodation for trucking them quietly and carefully,… ought to be provided. Ibid. (1865), 29 Sept., 7/2. A farmer in Perthshire, having lost one or two animals from the plague, immediately trucked off the rest to London for the Monday morning’s market.
1884. West. Morn. News, 6 Aug., 1/2. Lots can be trucked … to any part of the West of England.
2. intr. To drive or take charge of a truck, to act as a truck-driver. U.S. colloq.
1907. Black Cat, June, 3. I been truckin’ fer you, or rather fer your father and uncle, eighteen years, and that’s the first time any one’s ever accused me of droppin’ anything.
Hence Trucking vbl. sb.
1809. R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 73. Wharfage and Shipping Marking £1 16s. 7d., Trucking … £1 10s.
1891. Echo, 10 March, 3/2. On the quays … the snow is a foot deep, and trucking from the sheds to the ship has been delayed.
1909. Dundee Advertiser, 24 Nov., 7. Miners … have struck work owing to a difference with the management regarding the trucking of coal.
