Recent Examples on the WebPeople kept testing positive; sets couldn’t be unloaded from cartage; performers couldn’t make it into the country.—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2022 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 Starting with his family’s modest cartage business and some gas stations, Moroun built a vast trucking and logistics network that spans North America and landed him for a time on Forbes magazine’s list of the wealthiest Americans.—John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2017 A resident of the 2500 block of Shannon Road, having advertised on Craigslist to sell tires, reported July 21 that someone tried to buy them with a fraudulent check, sent in the mail, for the price of the tires plus cartage.—Irv Leavitt, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2017
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