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

To avoid him, the driver swerved the other way, clipping the bumper of another car and then careening across all lanes of the freeway until the vehicle hit a tractor-trailer.

From Los Angeles Times

Officers in that case also seized the tractor-trailer and narcotics and turned the driver, a 34-year-old man, over to Homeland Security.

From Los Angeles Times

Customs and Border Protection officers encountered Friday, when a 29-year-old man drove a commercial tractor-trailer to the Otay Mesa commercial facility and tried to enter San Diego County.

From Los Angeles Times

That became a challenge for the stunt performers, who, to execute the director George Miller’s vision, threw their bodies every which way around the tractor-trailer as it sped down a stretch of road near Hay, a rural town in southeastern Australia.

From New York Times

She eventually crashed into two cars and a tractor-trailer that had stalled on the freeway.

From Los Angeles Times