Suicide jockey
A driver hauling explosives or other dangerously volatile freight.
Definitions
A driver pulling explosives, compressed flammable gas, or other hazmat that would erase a city block in a hard crash. The name is gallows humour — the cargo could turn you and your truck into a crater. Suicide jockeys run dedicated routes, can't tunnel through most cities, and have to placard everything correctly or the DOT crawls all over them.
Suicide jockey In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
CB-radio era nickname reflecting the genuine risk of hauling Class 1 explosives.
Comments 0