truck driver
Sign in to saveAlso known as truckie, lorry driver, trucker, driver, truck drivers
person who earns a living as the driver of a truck
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Within Vinony's link graph, truck driver is referenced by 573 other articles, and connects out to digital object identifier, United States Department of Transportation and citizens band radio.
Vinony files it under Occupational safety and health, Transport occupations and Truck drivers.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- occupation
- Image
- Truckdriver.jpg
- Patron saint
- Saint Christopher
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- Commons category
- Truck drivers
- ISCO-88 occupation class
- 8324
- topic's main category
- Category:Truck drivers
- female form of label
- camioneira
- male form of label
- camioneiro
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Encyclopedic overview
A truck driver driving a semi-truck in the Netherlands A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; an HGV driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the European Union, a lorry driver, or driver in the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia and Singapore) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck, which is commonly defined as a large goods vehicle (LGV) or heavy goods vehicle (HGV) (usually a semi truck, box truck, or dump truck).
Duties and functions
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “truck driver” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.