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suicide jockey
What does suicide jockey mean?
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.
"That suicide jockey out of Wichita runs dynamite to the mining sites."
Origin
CB-radio era nickname reflecting the genuine risk of hauling Class 1 explosives.
Frequently asked questions
What is a suicide jockey?
It's a driver hauling explosives or other dangerously volatile freight.
How do you use suicide jockey in a sentence?
"He drove as a suicide jockey, running loads of dynamite across the desert."
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