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
Crane or cranes may refer to:
Common meanings
* Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird
* Crane (machine), industrial machinery for lifting
** Crane (rail), a crane suited for use on railroads
People and fictional characters
* Crane (surname), ...
, known as
hoisting.
Cost
Haulage fees, sometimes also simply called "haulage", include the charges made for hauling
freight on
cart
A cart or dray (Australia and New Zealand) is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people.
It is different from the flatbed tr ...
s,
drays,
lorries, or
trucks, and is incorporated for example in the cost of loading raw ore at a
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
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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 tracking
See also
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Freight
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''Hauling'' (film), a Brazilian documentary on recyclers in São Paulo
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Hauling-out
Hauling-out is a behaviour associated with pinnipeds (true seals, sea lions, fur seals and walruses) temporarily leaving the water. Hauling-out typically occurs between periods of foraging activity. Rather than remain in the water, pinnipeds hau ...
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Haul road A haul video is a video recording, posted to the Internet, in which a person discusses items that they recently purchased, sometimes going into detail about their experiences during the purchase and the cost of the items they bought. The posting of ...
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Haul truck
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Heavy hauler
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Logistics
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Trackage rights
References
Blaszak, Michael W. "ABC's of Railroading: Trackage and Haulage Rights," ''Trains'', 1 May 2006, accessed 30 August 2011.{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920014201/http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad%20Reference/ABCs%20of%20Railroading/2006/05/Trackage%20and%20haulage%20rights.aspx , date=20 September 2012
Freight transport
