What does haulage mean?

Definitions for haulage
ˈhɔ lɪdʒhaulage

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. draw, haul, haulagenoun

    the act of drawing or hauling something

    "the haul up the hill went very slowly"

Wiktionary

  1. haulagenoun

    the act of hauling

  2. haulagenoun

    the business of transporting goods

Wikipedia

  1. Haulage

    Haulage is the business of transporting goods by road or rail between suppliers and large consumer outlets, factories, warehouses, or depots. This includes everything humans might wish to move in bulk - from vegetables and other foodstuffs, to clothes, ore, coal, and other supplies. Haulage also involves the transportation of chemicals in large sealed containers, and the removal of waste. As the word implies, goods are loaded into large trailers or carriages and hauled between different locations. Traditionally, this was by large animals such as horses or oxen - where the practice may also be called cartage or drayage. However, in the modern age, this act is mostly performed by trains or trucks - with large shipping vessels acting as intermediaries for crossing oceans. Truck drivers on haulage shifts are typically male, and often work long and difficult hours with few breaks - regularly sleeping in their vehicles overnight and eating/showering at rest stops. It is expected that Vehicular automation will largely render human drivers obsolete within a few decades. Haulage is also known as 'horizontal transport'. This contrasts with 'vertical transport' of the same such materials with cranes, known as hoisting.

ChatGPT

  1. haulage

    Haulage is the business or process of transporting goods, typically large quantities, from one place to another by road or rail. It often involves heavy, bulky items, or large volumes of goods and materials, and may be carried out by specialized, commercial transportation companies.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Haulagenoun

    act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling

Wikidata

  1. Haulage

    Haulage generally refers to the business of being a haulier or hauler, also called haulage contractor, common carrier, contract carrier, or private carrier, in other words of transporting goods by road or rail for other companies or one's own company. It includes the horizontal transport of ore, coal, supplies, and waste, also called cartage or drayage. The vertical transport of the same with cranes is called hoisting. Haulage fees, sometimes also simply called "haulage", include the charges made for hauling freight on carts, drays, lorries, or trucks, and is incorporated for example in the cost of loading raw ore at a mine site and transporting it to a processing plant. A railway, supplying cars, may negotiate rates with customers located on another railway's line, the road granting haulage rights. This differs from trackage rights in that the host railway operates the trains for the other railway, where with trackage rights, the secondary railway operates trains over the host's track

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. haulage

    A traction-way.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of haulage in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of haulage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of haulage in a Sentence

  1. Grant Shapps:

    This government continues to do everything we can to help the haulage and food industries contend with the HGV driver shortage.

  2. Chairman Brian Madderson:

    People don't want to go into the road haulage industry, [ they ] don't want to be [ truck ] drivers precisely because we've had that massive immigration approach and held wages down, held the quality of the job down.

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