Every Monday morning in Nairobi, a large, open-backed military-style truck pulls up behind the main courthouse and unloads 50 or so prisoners.

Mr. Ismail had been in the back of the police vehicle, an open-backed truck where guards were seated on benches.

An open-backed truck rumbled by heading for Bucharest.

The unit's open-backed trucks, equipped with ladders and dozens of tools, resembled nothing so much as fire trucks.

Ninety minutes (or more) of a large gilt statue being carted around Yorkshire on the back of an open-backed truck.

It was an open-backed truck, filled with an assortment of uniformed men, some in bandages, some just weary-looking.

After lunch, we would board an open-backed truck, painted to represent an anteater, for a safari tour of the ranch.

It was simply a big, open-backed truck with piles of garbage towering in the body.

Pulling revolvers, they jumped aboard the tail of the open-backed truck, stabbing shots at The Shadow as they did so.

They crouched in the back of open-backed armored trucks, not daring to peek out at the empty streets.