It probably comes from an expression used for many years by people who fix parts of cars and trucks.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

For instance, there's 5000 taco trucks in Los Angeles and 300 people a day go to each one of those.

例如，有5000洛杉矶的塔克卡车,每天由300个人负责驾驶。

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The Salem Fire Corporation showed up with its trucks and watched the house burn, just making sure that it didn't spread.

塞伦消防公司迅速开着消防车来到现场,眼睁睁看着房子烧掉，只是确保它不会蔓延。

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Hudson Riehle,senior vice president of research at the National Restaurant Association, says food trucks are here to stay.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

And what was happening on the police scanner was really interesting because you had ambulances and fire trucks and police cars constantly reporting where they are and what they're doing.

警用扫描仪的作用,非常有趣,因为救护车,和消防车，还有警车不断地,汇报它们的所在地和它们所做的事。

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The team is using forty cars and trucks to chase tornadoes, dropping measuring instruments in their paths.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Except for electromagnetism, the basics of mechanics, which is the motion of Billiard balls and trucks and marbles and whatnot, was set up by Newton.

除电磁学外,力学的基础,也就是台球,卡车,弹球以及其它小玩意儿的运动原理,都是由牛顿建立起来的

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So far,most of the trade-ins have been trucks and the majority of new purchases have been cars.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

In general, if you're watching an action movie and there's a car chase and the trucks and cars are crashing all over the place, and let's say a Budweiser truck shows up in the scene somehow, well people are very likely paying for that.

如果看一部动作电影中有汽车追踪,以及卡车和汽车到处碰撞的场景,就说在电影里出现的是百威的卡车,这家公司的人很有可能为这个场景花钱了

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He drove a red car, and his crew members used red trucks and red equipment.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Eleven dollars per part at 12.5 million cars and trucks came to a total cost of $137 million to improve the safety.

给1250万辆轿车和卡车配上11美元的隔板,提高安全性，共需花费一亿三千七百万美元。

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The company has also started reusing materials and reducing the fuel use of its trucks.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

So, it doesn't make sense to ship 200 Squares to these 5000 taco trucks and allow them to give these away for free or with the purchase of a taco.

所以，想给这5000辆卡车,配送200个Squares订单,让他们免费运送这些订单,或是以包下卡车为补偿运送这些订单都是不可能的。

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The veterinarian says trucks and other modern vehicles are taking the place of camels.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The union followed grape trucks and demonstrated wherever the grapes were taken.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

General Motors sold more than eight million cars and trucks last year.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

These are trucks and trailers equipped to do the job, including inspection.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

It now includes everything from container trucks to airplanes to motorcycles.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

They drive big sport utility vehicles and minivans and personal trucks.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

He and Miz Woodring thought that other people in town might pay them to remove trash and recycling materials instead of using a private trash company that uses trucks.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

The attack was directed at a group of Taliban insurgents who had seized two trucks carrying fuel for international forces.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Villagers,however, say locals had also gathered around the hijacked trucks to collect fuel from them when the attack occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Many of the pickup trucks that carry protesters to Bangkok were bought thanks to a surge in rural credit.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Farrell was abducted while interviewing witnesses at the site of last week's NATO air strike on two hijacked fuel trucks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The first Merlefest,held in 1988, attracted just 4,000 fans who gathered to watch Merle's friends jamming on a few flatbed trucks.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

"It will for a long time, at least while I am alive. And it is not just trucks and heavy machinery.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The time that we spend in congested conditions significantly adds to the amount of fuel cars and trucks are burning.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Authorities have boosted security in Islamabad and are believed to be staging large container trucks to block major roads into the city.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

The U.N.World Food Program says none of its trucks were damaged nor any of its personnel injured and the rations were delivered.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

People who live near waste landfills are accustomed to seeing trucks dumping normal household waste such as food,packaging,appliances, furniture and yard cuttings.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05