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English Dictionary: trucking by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
trucking
n
  1. the activity of transporting goods by truck [syn: hauling, trucking, truckage]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Truck \Truck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trucked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {trucking}.] [OE. trukken,F. troquer; akin to Sp. & Pg.
      trocar; of uncertain origin.]
      To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck
      knives for gold dust.
  
               We will begin by supposing the international trade to
               be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual
               trucking of one commodity against another. --J. S.
                                                                              Mill.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trucking \Truck"ing\, n.
      The business of conveying goods on trucks.
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