truck roll

truck roll
n.
The dispatch of a truck or other vehicle to an off-site location.
— truck-roll adj.
Example Citation:
The problem with some of these technologies is that they are expensive. They all require what is known as "truck roll," where someone who works for the cable company or the phone company actually has to run a truck out to some location and break up the street so they can have access to a cable and make changes to the cable distribution system to be able to handle the two-way transmission.
— Darnell Little, "Providers Target Faster Subscriber Access Lines For Homes, Businesses," Chicago Tribune, April 19, 1999
Earliest Citation:
Interdiction will also be a very cost effective way to deliver video to neighborhoods with high chum rates and high penetration, such as apartment complexes. With interdiction, cable service can be turned on and off instantly and inexpensively. The higher the chum rate in a system, the quicker the payback on its investment, Necessary said. "Right now the cable industry, we believe, has about a 3% monthly chum rate. What that means is that [for every 100 subscribers] you've had three new connects and three disconnects. So you're actually running a 6% truck-roll rate."
— Matt Stump, "Cable MSO's," Broadcasting, May 21, 1990
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