nutting truck

plural nutting trucks

1. USUnited States Postal Service terminologyA flat cart with four wheels, one in the center or corner of each side, upon which trays of mail may be stacked for transport.

   She looked at the stacks of flats already sitting on the nutting truck.

   2012, Sandy Kay, Awakening Hearts, →ISBN, page 89

   2 more examples

   The slip read: "I asked Charles Hall to push a nutting truck from the dumping table area to the paper case area."

   1973, in a Government Employee Relations Report (in the issues 484-509; page 1-461), page 49

   When I tried to show him how thin the pieces were and that I had made good progress, he just picked up his clip board and motioned for me to get a big nutting truck and to follow him.

   2006, Ken Culbreth, The Railway Mail Clerk and the Highway Post Office, →ISBN, page 123