long-haul driver
Interstate freight operator
A long-haul driver is a truck driver who transports goods over extended distances, typically crossing state lines or traveling hundreds of miles per trip.
The work involves days or weeks away from home, sleeping in the cab, and logging significant highway miles: Long-haul drivers keep the supply chain moving.
Distinguished from local delivery drivers who return home nightly.
- truckerCommercial freight driver
- highwayMajor road for travel
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- eighteen-wheelerLarge cargo transport vehicle
- double trailerTwo trailers behind one cab
wide load · cab · sleeper · diesel · fuel tank · interstate · open road · cross country · roadside · convoy · freight · cargo · miles · truck stop · rest stop · CB radio · gear shift · jackknife
- traveling workersseasonal laborer, traveling salesman, traveling nurse, journeyman, roadie
- driverstrucker, chauffeur, car transporter, expediter, valet
- Courierscourier, messenger, mail carrier, postal worker, deliveryman
long-haul driverlocal driver
Nearby area's regular driver
delivery driver · shuttle driver · bus driver · taxi driver · rideshare driver
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