How to Use drayage in a Sentence

drayage

noun
  • The rule would first kick in for drayage trucks, which move cargo between ports and warehouses up and down the state.
    — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Then, a drayage trucking company picks up the shipment and takes it to a warehouse.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • These are trucking firms that haul shipments to and from seaports and railyards—a sector known as drayage.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • With his guidance, the company has emerged as a leader in intermodal drayage.
    — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
  • My customers work in drayage, the sector of trucking companies that haul freight to and from our nation’s seaports.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Yet, few electric drayage trucks have been sold thus far, and a major build-out of charger systems at drayage depots or at the ports is required.
    — Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Scheduling tugs, fuel barges, crane operators, drayage trucks and drivers is complex indeed.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The disruption even has spread to railroads, especially in drayage, the service of hauling seaborne shipping containers from ports to rail yards.
    — Fortune, 2 Apr. 2018
  • These include big rigs, drayage trucks, terminal tractors, forklifts, and other industrial equipment.
    — Nathaniel Horadam, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Speaking to the project’s progress, Hacegaba pointed to 4 Gen Logistics, which achieved its goal of hitting zero emissions for drayage.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The findings come as pressure ratchets on the port to adopt strict and binding timelines for its tenants to electrify everything from short-haul drayage trucks and forklifts to harbor and oceangoing vessels.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2021
  • Last-mile delivery and drayage trucks—the short-haul vehicles that often operate around port locations—must be zero-emissions by 2035.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
  • One specific way drayage truckers can improve customer service is by offering their customers better real-time visibility on the status and location of freight.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • With that comes a wide range of vehicle weight and function classifications, such as operational uses, drayage, cartage, short- and middle-mile freight, long-haul freight, last-mile freight and specialty vehicles.
    — Alfred Poor, Forbes, 25 July 2022
  • Field said demand for intermodal wasn't that strong, but the company saw sequential improvement in volumes and executed some of the most efficient drayage in company history.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Forterra estimates the total commercial market—logistics centers and drayage/private roads —at $23 billion total.
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Hyundai is focusing first on the drayage market, which offers short, regular routes anchored at industrial locations suitable for hydrogen refilling stations.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 13 May 2023
  • But as battery prices have fallen, the economics of making wireless charging roads doesn't appear to make much sense beyond low-speed applications like taxi queues at stations or airports or drayage trucks hauling shipping containers at ports.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Busch has secured sponsorship for those races with Zariz Transport, an intermodal drayage company specializing in transporting containers from the ports.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The drayage trucking companies need to ensure their retail or manufacturing customers trust them with their goods—the products that can make or break their business—and that level of trust isn’t something AI can build.
    — Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Additionally, all drayage trucks—the ones that move containers around at places like the Port of Los Angeles—must also go emissions free by this date, as well as off-road vehicles and equipment.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The new rules require fleets using drayage trucks – which are short-haul trucks that transport goods from ports and rail yards – to only buy zero-emissions alternatives starting this year and to fully be zero-emissions by 2035.
    — Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This had significant repercussions concerning logistics systems—container shortages, public warehouse space challenges, and pier drayage delays drove up costs for everyone.
    — Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The intermodal and drayage services company intends to use up to the maximum amount of new capital received to support core business operations during the Chapter 11 process.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The settlements do not require XPO to reclassify its drivers as employees, but labor leaders nonetheless hailed the agreements, which will compensate 784 drivers, as a turning point in the fight over port drayage.
    — Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The Maritime Clean Air Strategy also called for transitioning diesel cargo-handling equipment, such as cranes, drayage trucks and forklifts to zero-emission technology by 2030.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The rebates run $7,500 to $120,000 and can be applied toward the purchase of new electric medium‑ and heavy‑duty commercial vehicles, including drayage trucks, electric semis, box trucks, delivery vans and other fleet vehicles.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026

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