Fire trucks, repair trucks, and police cars pulled up in front of the house.
'You will have a guard for the trucks, of course, and I will pick you good men.
'And have that blighter in the red hat loot the trucks on the road? No, thank you.
If you won't give me them, I will have every item out of the trucks and make a new list.
But the big trouble came the next morning when I had got nearly all the stuff aboard the trucks.
For other classes of goods permanent packages and tramways will be provided in each ship, and trucks will be supplied at the wharf.
It was next "jacked" up from the trucks, which were hauled away empty, the temporary bridge was dismantled, and the girder finally lowered gently into position.
The landing officer was a Bulgarian, quite a competent man if he could have made the railways give him the trucks he needed. There was a collection of hungry German transport officers always putting in their oars, and being infernally insolent to everybody.