transport driver, noun phrase

Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Probably an interpretation of Afrikaans transportryer, see transport-rider.
historical
transport-rider.
1881 E.E. Frewer tr. of E. Holub’s Seven Yrs in S. Afr. I. 186Close beside us were two other waggons belonging to a Transvaal ‘transport-driver,’ who came to have a talk with us.
1886 G.A. Farini Through Kalahari Desert 4Huge heavy-winged aasvogels, or vultures, making riot among the carcases of the horses and oxen that fairly strew the tracks used by the transport-drivers.
1926 P. Smith Beadle (1929) 280The old transport-driver drew her hand into his and looked down upon her with that tender and compassionate smile.
a1951 H.C. Bosman in L. Abrahams Unto Dust (1963) 117They knew that a young and attractive girl like Johanna Greyling would not have to wear out much shoe-leather in getting to Kimberley, transport-drivers being what they were.
1961 L.E. Van Onselen Trekboer 20In the days of the waggon teams rolling across the veld, the transport driver covered about 20 miles between sunrise and sunset.
1971 H. Zeederberg Veld Express 100The party left for Eytings early the following morning. This was a wayside halt for transport drivers, and named after the owner of the hotel-cum-store.
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