How to Use haulage in a Sentence

haulage

noun
  • Of course, the Nihil would ensure any haulage ships were reliant on them for safe passage.
    — EW.com, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Road haulage experts said the truck appeared to be refrigerated.
    — Tara John, CNN, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Those factors drove handling and haulage costs up 11 percent to $594 million.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The group claimed that the plot had only cost it $1,000 but caused millions in losses to the haulage industry.
    — Shiraz Maher, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2013
  • That should reduce inter-terminal haulage operations and make a dent in greenhouse gas emissions from the port.
    — New Atlas, 2 Mar. 2025
  • As a result, the ocean carrier is asking customers to plan their inland haulage accordingly.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 17 June 2024
  • But some experts side with the theory that Egyptians used ramps and haulage devices to put the blocks in place, based on current evidence.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Decarbonizing road haulage still faces many challenges, despite the success of Volvo Trucks so far.
    — James Morris, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • While the business didn’t work out in the end for the road haulage entrepreneur, Page had the entrepreneurship bug and left to work for another founder.
    — Philip Salter, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • There is also the risk that service industries like finance, health, education and haulage could face staff shortages when free movement of people ends.
    — Lucy Meakin, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2020
  • But in the long-term, Ogboi’s assignment is to make Lori the company that best adapts new technologies to reduce haulage costs in Africa.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Merchant haulage is a clause in which the shipper is responsible for arranging and paying for the inland transportation of goods, and not the container shipping liner.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 30 June 2025
  • Some parts of New South Wales state experienced their wettest week on record, prompting the closure of a major coal-haulage railway and cuts to coal production.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Its two cars, each capable of carrying around 40 people, are attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable with traction provided by electric motors on the two cars.
    — Andrei Khalip, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Then came the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which swept away restrictions on the number of haulage firms, as well as price controls.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The bombers apparently picked the wrong truck, because the explosives-laden vehicle remained at a haulage company's yard in Lurgan until it was discovered.
    — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Driverless technology will most quickly be adopted for long-distance haulage, potentially putting up to 16 million Chinese truckers out of work.
    — Time, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Britain on Friday joined a growing list of countries and companies financing research into automating haulage, announcing a trial of self-driving trucks that will see real-world tests next year.
    — Thomas Furse, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2017
  • Going back to individually contracting haulage will collectively be a lot cheaper than a 17% hike in property taxes.
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
  • For the second week in a row the Brazilian striker found the back of the net in the dying minutes to increase his side's points haulage, after his 90th minute winner at Swansea City last time out.
    — SI.com, 1 Oct. 2017
  • With his existing range now long in the tooth and the new Semi commercial haulage truck likely to remain a niche product for the foreseeable future, hopes rest on the Cybertruck as the next big catalyst for growth.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Explore galleries filled with volcanic rocks and fluorescent minerals, browse archival photos, try gold panning, and board a small mine train and ride it into a haulage tunnel, much like workers did in 1914.
    — Vivian Chung, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2026
  • Truckers left their vehicles sitting idle and blocked roads over the weekend in spotty strikes across China driven by frustrations over higher fuel costs, falling haulage rates and transportation apps that are squeezing their profits.
    — Te-Ping Chen, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • The line's two cars, each capable of carrying around 40 people, are attached to opposite ends of a haulage cable with traction provided by electric motors on the cars that counterbalance each other.
    — Reuters, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The drastic reduction in staffing that has resulted has sown chaos through sectors as diverse as food supplies, haulage, supermarkets, hospitality, manufacturing and media.
    — NBC News, 22 July 2021
  • Truck-maker Volvo Group also posted profit well ahead of analysts’ expectations after cutting costs and benefiting from a post-lockdown recovery in road-haulage.
    — Oliver Sachgau, Bloomberg.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The brothers, from Armagh in Northern Ireland, are believed to have links with the road haulage and shipping industries, and are wanted on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The demonstrations have been primarily instigated by farmers, agricultural contractors and road haulage operators, who are upset with the government’s response to the spike in fuel prices since the onset of the Iran war.
    — Michael Considine, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Finally, a fleet management system that coordinates movement and location of material haulage is critical to ensure balanced line operations between excavation, haulage and processing.
    — Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Falling earth, machinery and haulage accidents, and explosions are some of the most common causes of death among mining professionals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    — al, 13 June 2022

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