Other forms: truckers
A trucker is somebody who drives a lorry for a living. A long-haul trucker, truckers' hours, a trucker's cap.
It is the American word where British English says lorry driver. Hours at the wheel are capped by law and recorded, because fatigue at that weight kills — and the job is among the most dangerous in the developed world by deaths at work.
1nountruckerSomebody who drives a lorry for a living.
“The trucker drove through the night to deliver the goods by morning.”
trucker is a job.
Truck plus -er. Truck in this sense comes from Latin trochus, a wheel, from Greek trochos.
Middle English
*trukere — one who disappoints, a deceiver
English, today
trucker
From Middle English trukere (“one who disappoints, a deceiver”), from Middle English trukien (“to fail, run out, disappoint”), equivalent to truck + er. Compare trooker.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA