A grocery-store chain's eighteen-wheeler sped by and I studied the side of the truck.
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It took two weeks of sorting and an eighteen-wheeler to get rid of a lifetime of possessions.
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Fatigue comes with the job of driving an eighteen-wheeler, even with rules requiring rest stops and limiting driving hours.
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He has a meaty, frank voice — it hits bluntly, but without much depth, like painting with a brush lashed to an eighteen-wheeler.
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Two eighteen-wheeler trucks containing 93 massive crates and boxes pull up to Avant Gardner, an event space on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.
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An unrepaired safety defect caused Raechel to lose control of the car, veer across the center median and collide head on with an oncoming eighteen- wheeler truck.
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Hitch Hiker, 1989-90 Under a turbulent sky, a red eighteen-wheeler truck moves across a darkening country landscape, its headlights casting twin beams on the road ahead.
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One eighteen-wheeler trip is often the work not of a single smuggler but of several working together, who load four, five or six groups of 20 or so migrants into a trailer.
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The last thing the world needs is a United States with a radically unpredictable foreign policy, for the same reason that no one needs to share a crowded highway with an unpredictable eighteen-wheeler.
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The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation estimates that the entire quantity of pure heroin consumed in America each year would take up 633 cubic feet –or about one sixth of the cargo volume of a single eighteen-wheeler truck.
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On "Jesus Is Born" — released on Christmas and credited to Sunday Service Choir — one powerful example is the remake of Ginuwine's sinewy flirtation "So Anxious," which becomes "Souls Anchored," a praise song with the intensity of an eighteen-wheeler.
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By 2007, hundreds of Afghans, Iranians, and Iraqi Kurds had installed themselves in the town's parks and gardens, waiting for a chance to wedge into the undercarriage of a train or stow away in an eighteen-wheeler bound for England.
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After making their way into the United States by crossing the Rio Grande and other means, the migrants were packed into the back of an eighteen-wheeler by smugglers, who told them that the truck had a cooling system, according to a criminal complaint.
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It was yet another example of the immense outpouring of support for tiny Iraan High since the accident, chronicled by The New York Times, and caused, the police said, when an eighteen-wheeler lost control and crossed the median on Interstate 211 on a cold, rainy night.
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A similar triumph can be seen in the artistry of Mr. Ros, who was born in an eighteen-wheeler serving as a hospital for Cambodian refugees in Thailand and who overcame a tough childhood in Providence, R.I., to become a talented performer, an original storyteller and an uncommonly charming stage personality.
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One person was killed near Ashburn, Georgia, when his eighteen-wheeler was thrown off Interstate 75 by an EF1 tornado.
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Some transit bus roadeos include simulated bus stops, school bus roadeos tend to include simulated loading and unloading events, and most roadeos require drivers to navigate very tight spaces in their vehicles, such as those that would be encountered while driving an eighteen-wheeler.
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The drugs arrive in an eighteen-wheeler full of cabbages. Jorge and Abdulkarim's men start repackaging the drugs in a warehouse. Meanwhile, JW assists Mrado and one of Mrado's Serbian friends in entering the warehouse. A firefight occurs and one of Abdulkarim's men is seriously wounded immediately.
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"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" is a song written by Dave Loggins, and recorded by American country music band Alabama. It was released in January 1984 as the first single and title track to the band's album Roll On. It was the group's 12th straight No. 1 single on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart.
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A farm truck is a vehicle designated for agricultural use, and may include anything from small pick-up trucks or even vehicles fashioned out of old parts, to class 8 eighteen-wheeler trucks. Some states in the United States have a special registration for farm trucks that includes restrictions such as distance the vehicle may travel from the farm.
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The band released their first album "A Tell All" in October 2013, a record that features songs about "love and jealousy, nights spent on the road and nights spent in the kitchen, the things men do to women and women do for men." Tucker contributed a cover of "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" to the Alabama tribute record High Cotton.
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Flatbeds and refuse container trucks can often "dump", but are rarely called that. ;Eighteen-wheeler: This term is derived from the number of tires that the typical OTR tractor-trailer configuration has. See also semi-truck. ;Semi-truck: :An articulated (jointed) combination vehicle, often composed of a 10-wheeled (three axle) tractor and a 4-wheeled (two axle) trailer.
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Randel Huston Parton (born December 15, 1953) is an American singer- songwriter, actor and businessman. Parton is the eighth of twelve children born to Avie Lee Caroline (née Owens; 1923–2003) and Robert Lee Parton Sr (1921–2000), in Sevierville, Tennessee. He is the younger brother of Dolly and Stella Parton and the older brother of actress Rachel Dennison. He was the first person to record the song "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" in 1982.
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In Overdrive is an album released in 2009 by American country music artist Aaron Tippin. The album is composed of truck driving song covers with the exception of the last two tracks, which are original. Tippin's 2008 single "Drill Here, Drill Now" is also featured in the album. Among the covers are "Drivin' My Life Away" (a Number One for Eddie Rabbitt) and "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" (a Number One for Alabama).
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Roll On is the eighth studio album of country music band Alabama, released in 1984. All four singles released from this album reached Number One on the Hot Country Singles chart: "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)", "When We Make Love", "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)" and "(There's A) Fire in the Night". Music videos were made for "I'm Not That Way Anymore" and "(There's A) Fire in the Night". The album was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Sixteen eighteen-wheeler tankers were used, some with modifications made by manufacturer Kenworth at the request of driving stunts arranger Rémy Julienne. Most were given improvements to their engines to run faster, while one model had an extra steering wheel on the back of the cabin so a hidden stuntman could drive while Carey Lowell was in the front and another received extra suspension on its back so it could lift its front wheels. Although a rig was constructed to help a rig tilt onto its side, it was not necessary as Julienne was able to pull off the stunt without the aid of camera trickery.
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II includes many of the band's biggest hits of the 1980s, a decade in which they sold millions of albums, had 26 No. 1 singles on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart and won the "Entertainer of the Decade" honor from the Academy of Country Music. Seven of the album's 10 songs went to No. 1 between 1982–1989; three of them – "Take Me Down", "Dixieland Delight" and "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" – are presented here in their original album-length versions, while "The Closer You Get" is presented in its single-edit form and "Fallin' Again" in its shorter LP edit. Two of the album's three new tracks were released as singles, "Then Again" and "Born Country", both of which were top 5 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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For the climactic tanker chase, the producers used an entire section of a highway near Mexicali, which had been closed for safety reasons. Sixteen eighteen-wheeler tankers were used, some with modifications made by manufacturer Kenworth at the request of driving stunts arranger Rémy Julienne. Most were given improvements to their engines to run faster, while one model had an extra steering wheel on the back of the cabin so a hidden stuntman could drive while Carey Lowell was in the front and another received extra suspension on its back so it could lift its front wheels. Although a rig was constructed to help a rig tilt onto its side, it was not necessary as Julienne was able to pull off the stunt without the aid of camera trickery.
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"Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" was the story of a trucker who drives an over-the-road semitrailer truck to support his wife and three children. In the song's first verse, the man (referred to only as "Daddy") leaves for a several-day trip through the Midwest. When the children gather around their mother in sadness, she says all they need to do is remember the song their father had taught them ("Roll on highway, roll on along, roll on Daddy 'til you get back home, roll on family, roll on crew, roll on mama like I asked you to do"); those lyrics serve as the refrain of the song. In some versions, the song begins with a CB radio call saying "How about ya, Alabama, Roll On", which was recorded from an actual CB call placed to Alabama's bus in the late 70s.
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Roll On was Alabama's next LP, and its four singles, "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)", "When We Make Love", "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)", "(There's A) Fire in the Night", all went to the top in both countries. 40-Hour Week (1985) continued the band's string of multinational successes, with "40 Hour Week (For a Livin')" and "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" peaking at number one in both territories, with only the lead single, "There's No Way", falling short in Canada (although it peaked at number two). 40-Hour Week was one of Alabama's most popular albums, crossing over in the pop album charts. Alabama Christmas, a collection of nine holiday songs plus "Christmas in Dixie", became Alabama's first release on compact disc that September; it was also the centerpiece of a retail and television promotion (sponsored by the Nashville Network).
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The album version of "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" is approximately 40 seconds longer than the 7-inch single released for radio airplay and retail sale. The album version can be distinguished by sound effects of a semitrailer truck (both the engine starting and, at the song's end, traveling down the highway), CB radio chatter and — toward the end of the song — an extra repetition of the refrain. Much like the Greatest Hits 3 version of "If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)", the version of "Roll On" on Greatest Hits 2 is slightly different as well, featuring a quick fadeout to omit the truck sounds at the end. On the Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin' box set, the album version is presented in its entirety with no crossfade to "Carolina Mountain Dewe", as well as a slight extension of the opening truck sound effects.
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