dump truck
nounDefinition of dump truck
: an automotive truck for the transportation of bulk material that has a body which tilts to dump its contents
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After impact with the pickup, the dump truck overturned and slid into a Huntsville city transit bus, Johnson said. — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, "Police: Pickup driver at fault in crash involving Huntsville city bus, dump truck," 27 Aug. 2019 Your average dump truck, by contrast, uses between 11,000 and 22,000 gallons of diesel fuel each year. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, "The World's Largest Electric Vehicle Is a Dump Truck," 21 Aug. 2019 The fight grew ugly; one night in 2001, the brother rammed Wilson’s Mercedes with his dump truck. — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, "The Lunch Ladies of New Canaan," 15 Aug. 2019 The dump truck was on its side on the shoulder of I-880 and scrap metal debris had spilled into the northbound lanes of traffic, according to California Highway Patrol. — Maggie Angst, The Mercury News, "Overturned dump truck cleared from northbound I-880 at Montague Expressway in Milpitas," 24 July 2019 Leslie Ray Cronk of Sanger was in the cab of what Leeper described as a semi-trailer dump truck when the trailer portion of the vehicle overturned, crushing the cab. — Dallas News, "Rig's trailer crushes truck driver at Frisco construction site," 15 Aug. 2019 The crash occurred at about 5:13 a.m. between a dump truck and another vehicle at Bachman and Thorpe roads, east of the Florida Turnpike and south of State Road 528, FHP said. — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, "Traffic: 1 dead after crash involving dump truck; intersection near turnpike and S.R. 528 shut down," 9 Aug. 2019 Bicyclists should not be asked to compete with dump trucks. — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, "Letters: Make room for cycling, make cycling more visible; Zero-emission vehicles good for some, not others; Who was disparaged, Baltimore or president? (8/4/19)," 5 Aug. 2019 The California Highway Patrol issued a severe traffic alert at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning after a dump truck overturned on northbound I-880, blocking the on-ramp at Montague Expressway in Milpitas. — Maggie Angst, The Mercury News, "Overturned dump truck cleared from northbound I-880 at Montague Expressway in Milpitas," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'dump truck.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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