drayage

noun

dray·​age ˈdrā-ij How to pronounce drayage (audio)
: the work or cost of hauling by dray

Examples of drayage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 This year, the state budget includes $250 million for ports, $280 million for infrastructure projects at and around the Port of Oakland, and $1.3 billion over three years for zero-emission transit buses, school buses and trucks, including more than 1,000 port drayage trucks. Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021 In an opinion piece for Transport Dive, an industry outlet, Nimesh Modi, CEO of BookYourCargo, a drayage service provider, described the shifts of short-haul truck drivers that start at 3am with hours spent in a wearying miles-long stop-start line at the port to pick up containers. Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021 Newsom's order, signed last Monday, aims to ban the sale of new internal combustion engine cars and directs the California Air Resources Board to develop a phase-out plan that would require 100 percent zero-emissions personal use and drayage vehicles by 2035. Nick Givas, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2020 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 By 2035, all drayage trucks would need to be emissions-free. Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1791, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of drayage was in 1791

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“Drayage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drayage. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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