It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Hudson Riehle,senior vice president of research at the National Restaurant Association, says food trucks are here to stay.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

The team is using forty cars and trucks to chase tornadoes, dropping measuring instruments in their paths.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

So far,most of the trade-ins have been trucks and the majority of new purchases have been cars.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

He drove a red car, and his crew members used red trucks and red equipment.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The company has also started reusing materials and reducing the fuel use of its trucks.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

The veterinarian says trucks and other modern vehicles are taking the place of camels.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The union followed grape trucks and demonstrated wherever the grapes were taken.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

General Motors sold more than eight million cars and trucks last year.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

These are trucks and trailers equipped to do the job, including inspection.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

It now includes everything from container trucks to airplanes to motorcycles.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

They drive big sport utility vehicles and minivans and personal trucks.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

He and Miz Woodring thought that other people in town might pay them to remove trash and recycling materials instead of using a private trash company that uses trucks.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The attack was directed at a group of Taliban insurgents who had seized two trucks carrying fuel for international forces.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Villagers,however, say locals had also gathered around the hijacked trucks to collect fuel from them when the attack occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Many of the pickup trucks that carry protesters to Bangkok were bought thanks to a surge in rural credit.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Farrell was abducted while interviewing witnesses at the site of last week's NATO air strike on two hijacked fuel trucks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The first Merlefest,held in 1988, attracted just 4,000 fans who gathered to watch Merle's friends jamming on a few flatbed trucks.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"It will for a long time, at least while I am alive. And it is not just trucks and heavy machinery.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The time that we spend in congested conditions significantly adds to the amount of fuel cars and trucks are burning.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Authorities have boosted security in Islamabad and are believed to be staging large container trucks to block major roads into the city.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

The U.N.World Food Program says none of its trucks were damaged nor any of its personnel injured and the rations were delivered.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

People who live near waste landfills are accustomed to seeing trucks dumping normal household waste such as food,packaging,appliances, furniture and yard cuttings.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05