truckie

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A truck driver.Examples: "2005, “Marcus”, quoted in Rose McCrohan, Chapter 3: I Don′t Care If I Live or Die, Keith D. Gilbert (editor), Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk, Volume 6, page 45, I met up with a truckie and stayed on the road with him for most of the two months. I learnt how to drive the truck, even though I didn't have a truck or even a car license. I got to know other truckies and they used to ask for me on the CB radio."; "On the day of the funeral truckies on their way to the container wharf slow down as they pass the Railway Hotel and sound their earth-shattering horns."; "Look for the epitaph to a local female truckie outside the roadhouse."Synonyms: truckerAustraliaNew-Zealandslang

2. (firefighting, slang) A firefighter who works from a fire truck.slang