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.

As the word implies, goods are loaded into large trailers or carriages and hauled between different locations.

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.

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.