Then, from the back of the rickety truck came Jericho.

One morning in 1972, a rickety truck arrived at 56 Hope Road, the well-worn Jamaica mansion where Bob Marley held court.

Back in 1981, he said, there was a rickety truck ("It looked like a bookmobile with rust") and equipment that didn't fire up until a crew member whacked it with his fist.

Then a rickety old truck came slowly up the hill, howling with the climb.

He drives a rickety old truck and trailer, uses pliers to pull up the zipper on his worn boots and rides cut-rate horses.

It was night now, and the little Mextown street was one blazing bulb of lights: movie marquees, fruit stands, penny arcades, five-and-tens, and hundreds of rickety trucks and mud-spattered jalopies, parked.

After a day slogging through the Garment District in a rickety truck loaded with dress suits, Jerome Miller was nearing the end of his delivery route.

But you had to be strong to get in a rickety truck with the kids and the mattress and go out to California to start again.

Beasly, the Horton's yardboy-chauffeur-gardener-et cetera was backing a rickety old truck up the driveway.