The truck crawled away.
Few lights were on in the houses the trucks crawled past; the Graciano compound was an exception.
As the sun rises, the Joads' truck, groaning under its load, crawls slowly (like a turtle) onto the highway going west.
A second truck crawled out of nothingness.
The truck crawled steadily and slowly but backward up Carmel Hill.
A few cars and trucks crawled by, aimless and solitary, and people still meandered the walks, but that was all.
Cars and trucks of summer residents, landscapers and town workers, among others, crawl past the merge continuously from sunrise to sundown most days.
And the truck crawled slowly through the dust toward the highway and the west.
And he was loosening the pan bolts as the truck moved gently across the shallow ditch and crawled away.
The truck crawled painfully through the stifling blackness.