Since he had made the car inspectors carefully overhaul the truck gear in the Denver station, there was no one to swear at.
The engine of his elderly Moreland tow-truck was brought to life by Solomon almost hidden behind the huge wooden steering wheel.
The sun was barely up when the chicken farmer was stopped a block from his house, Highway patrolmen slowly inspected his truck from front to back, while three cars full of civilians, by the side of the road, watched every move.
I must be a silly old man," Solomon thought, scanning the cleared space behind his tow truck where he remembered an engine.
The truck lumbered carefully down rows of cars to an almost completely stripped wreck holding only a broken engine.
In a few minutes, Solomon had the engine waving behind the truck while he reversed to a clear space near the center of his yard.
All the urging of the teamster and the straining of the horses were in vain--until the motorman quietly tossed a shovelful of sand on the track under the heavy wheels, and then the truck lumbered on its way.
The huge truck wheels were sliding uselessly round on the car tracks that were wet and slippery from rain.
How many truck and family-horse lawyers make themselves ridiculous by trying to speed on the law track, where courts and juries only laugh at them.
Suddenly, with much jarring and jolting, an electric car came to a standstill just in front of a heavy truck that was headed in an opposite direction.
He had insisted upon being laid in the bed of a pickup truck and taken across the Slate Range to Trona, where we met him.
I supposed after the all night trip under such conditions Brown would go to bed but an hour later when I went to the store for some small purchase a woman climbed out of a pickup truck and with three small children, came in.
A man stopped a truck in front of the door, came in and asked how far it was to Furnace Creek.
Her dark eyes watched Charlie's and when she had finished Charlie called Joe Ryan and together they went across the road, climbed into a pickuptruck and left in a hurry.
His truck broke down and this morning he left early to get parts, but he was smart enough to take her shoes with him.
Did you meet a truck on your way up, with a husky young driver and a girl in a skimpy dress?
He owns a truck and hauls for a mine near here at so much a load.
In the Army truckan officer had adjusted his earphones.
Our truck is equipped with rotating antennae," he explained.
Well, we have a truck equipped so that our instruments pick up the direction from which any short wave broadcast is sent.
The driver told them that only two trucks had gone on ahead; sixteen were behind, with Señor Jenkins on the last, and each truck carried twenty bales of cotton.
They stopped the next truck when they met it, and then waited until all seventeen were backed up the road.
To his unutterable wrath he saw the end truck headed about.
Every new discovery of the scientific application of power brings us nearer to the day when the truck will move.
The existing state of the aerial problem may be compared to that of a railway truck which an insufficient number of men are trying to move.
A small truck which Mr. Giles had in the shop was to be used in wheeling the aeroplane out of the shop through the big middle doors of the stable, and into the hangar.
The truck was a frail affair, and it would have been slow work at best.
But before I'd have that old truck in my nice new house!
There's enough old truckin Salem now," declared Captain Green ungraciously.
The class visit a neighboring truck farm, recognize as many vegetables as they can, and learn the names and characteristics of the new ones.
With the help of one school a group of adults in the district hired quite a large tract of land outside the city and started truck gardens.
He thought I meant the other ends, I cal'late, for I went to sleep in the chair, same as I generally do, and when I woke up my head looked like the main truck of the old Faraway.
From being knocked down by a truck many a rich feller got his first start in business already.
If it would be your Beckie, understand me, the least that happens is that a millionaire owns the truck and he settles out of court for ten thousand dollars yet.
A greenhorn owns the truck which it even got a chattel mortgage on it.
So here a truck and there a truck, with one or two untouched trucks between, was burning furiously.
Seven-and-twenty truck loads presently reached Middelburg in most defiant mood, for they waved their home-made Transvaal flags in our faces; they had bedecked themselves with Transvaal ribbons and Transvaal rosettes almost from head to foot.
On the same truck rode a Colonial, an English cavalryman, and a Hindu who courteously threw over me a handsome rug when the chilly eve closed in upon us.
Quick as they were, Celeste was out of the truck before they could reach its door.
Even as Celeste crawled through the chute, the man started the truck engine.
The truck driver returned to the newspaper office, while Jerry and Penny drove Mr. Rhett to his home.
He put on speed, and was close behind as the truck pulled up with a jerk at Dock 12.
The driver of the truck was gesturing and pointing first to the dark sky and then to an open shed.
At the other end of the drive, someone opened the doors for a moment to allow a truck to roll inside.
The newspapertruck had disappeared by the time they drove out on the street.
It was deserted now save for a lone delivery truck which stood directly in front of the paper chute.
And no lone panther's howl is more serious in intention than the howl of the truck driver when the cable car bumps one of his rear wheels.
A monstrous truck loaded to the sky with barrels scurried to one side with marvellous agility.
Meanwhile, the gripman has become involved with countless truck drivers, and inch by inch, foot by foot, he fights his way to City Hall Park.
The wind had died away and the flags hung listlessly from the maintruck and spanker gaff.
I know the main truckfrom a jewel block," Laurel replied complacently.
A shell had crashed in and wiped out a truck load of men.
Every few seconds out of the mist came a huge grey truck or a lumbering two-wheeled cart; and then, creaking heavily past the dugout door, plunged into the mist again.
At short intervals along the road are repair furnaces, and near them a truck or a gun carriage, or an ambulance that has turned out for slight repairs.
The sweet potato, when wanted for early market and high prices, is grown on the light sandy soils called early truck soils.
The kind of farming which he chooses to carry on, whether stock raising, grain farming, truck farming, or a combination of two or more of these, or others.
This is a coarse to medium, yellow or brown sand averaging about five-sixths sand and one-sixth silt and clay and is a typical early truck soil found all along the eastern coast of the United States.
If this soil continues to give about the same result for successive tests during the growing season, the results would indicate a soil adapted to cotton, late truck or corn.
There is a larger class of hand wheel hoes which are very useful in working close planted garden and truck crops.
A number of large machines for transplanting are in successful and satisfactory use on large truck and tobacco farms.
Larger amounts are sometimes applied to the soil for truck and market garden crops.
They are particularly adapted to corn and cotton and in some instances are used for small fruits and truck crops.
If it is desired to apply manure directly to delicate rooted truck and vegetable crops it is best to let it stand for some time until the first rank fermentation has taken place and the manure has become rotten.
Late fall and early planter truck crops are often planted on the southern slopes of low ridges thrown up with the plow for warmth and protection from cold winds.
This planker is an excellent tool to smooth the surface, for broadcasting small seeds and for planting truck crops.
Early white potatoes, early cabbage, water melons, musk-melons, tomatoes and other early truck and market garden crops are also grown on light soil holding from five to seven per cent.
As Mr. Marvin started the engine, he called back over his shoulder: "A month from to-day I am coming out with a truck for deliveries.
But fer small truck like you'se plan to plant here, the stones has to get out.
But, we all hed to confess that he raised the finest pertaters, and corn, and other truck of anyone fer many a mile around.
Lately it has be'n all about the damp cold season, an' how we are goin' to get our truck goin' ef this weather keeps up.
So Mrs. James laid aside her book and devoted the rest of the evening to the plans for a fine truck garden.
Leave the truck here, we've got to drive like sand to catch that train!
In the old, dismantled mill he had a crew working over-time, installing a rock-crusher and a concentrating plant; and every truck that brought out timbers and supplies took back its tons of ore.
They rolled up monstrously, for each five-ton truck load added several thousand dollars to his bank account, but the time was getting short.
Every truck driver received his bonus, and night and day the great motors went thundering across the desert.
It was too precious to ship loose, for at eighty-four dollars a unit it was worth over four dollars a pound; he sent it out sacked, with an armed guard on each truck to see that it was delivered and receipted for.
The first place into which the stranger is shown is called the Truck shop, and will accommodate three hundred carriage builders and carpenters.
Travelling in a carriage on a truck is by no means safe: some years since Lady Zetland and her maids were nearly burned to death, sparks from the engine having set fire to their luggage.
Deciding to act upon the latter plan, he saw that everything about the great truck and engine was in perfect order, then ran after the men who had started for the clearing.
All the urging of the teamster and the straining of the horses in vain,--until the motorman quietly tossed a shovelful of sand on the track under the heavy wheels, then the truck lumbered on its way.
