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
In response to our conversation about the expression ding-ding man, a term used mainly in Nebraska to mean “the driver of an ice cream truck,” Greg in Auburn, California, shared that he and his wife used to call that vehicle the music...
A trucker in Glasgow, Kentucky, wonders about the term boom dog, a device used to secure things on a trailer. The boom may be inspired by a ship’s boom. The word dog has long been used in a variety of ways to refer to something that holds...