tanker yanker
n.— «There was every sort of truck you could imagine—”rooster cruisers” (produce haulers), “tanker yankers” (oil tankers), “bed buggers” (removal lorries), “stick haulers” (furniture deliverers). » —by Martin Fletcher Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of America Jan. 8, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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