hauling
Moving heavy loads
Hauling is the act of pulling, dragging, or transporting something heavy or bulky, often over a distance.
The word emphasizes effort and weight: We spent the weekend hauling furniture up three flights of stairs.
In trucking, hauling refers to the commercial transport of goods by vehicle.
Informally, if you're hauling, you're moving fast: That truck was really hauling down the highway.
To haul someone in means to bring them before an authority, often unwillingly.
Goods being transported
- shipmentGoods being transported
- goodsThings for sale
- merchandiseCommercial products offered
- consignmentBatch delivered for selling
commodities · bulk · payload · load · tonnage · pallets · containers · crates
Small craft that pulls ships
- bargeFlat freight vessel
- towlineRope for hauling vessels
- hawserThick nautical tethering rope
- towingPulling another vehicle along
harbor · vessel · shipping · seafaring · riverine · canal · mooring · deckhand
Large freight truck
- eighteen-wheelerLarge cargo transport vehicle
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- trailerPromotional film excerpt
- flatbedOpen-topped hauling vehicle
tanker · cab · diesel · highway · interstate · truckstop · CDL · teamster
Extremely physically demanding
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- toilStrenuous, prolonged effort
- workforceAll available workers
- laborersWorkers doing physical tasks
movers · crew · longshoremen · stevedores · dockhands · roustabouts · teamsters · manual
Production-to-consumer pathway
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- warehousingStoring goods commercially
- fulfillmentState of achieved purpose
- procurementObtaining goods externally
routing · dispatch · tracking · delivery · last-mile · scheduling · consignment · forwarding
freight
Goods being transported
- shipmentGoods being transported
- goodsThings for sale
- merchandiseCommercial products offered
consignment · commodities · bulk · payload · load · tonnage · pallets · containers · crates · parcels
drag
Resistance through fluid
hoist · lug · schlep · yank · strain · lift · muscle · effort · exertion · sweat
tugboat
Small craft that pulls ships
towing · harbor · vessel · shipping · seafaring · riverine · canal · mooring · deckhand · skipper
semi
Large freight truck
- eighteen-wheelerLarge cargo transport vehicle
- rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
- trailerPromotional film excerpt
flatbed · tanker · cab · diesel · highway · interstate · truckstop · CDL · teamster · overland
backbreaking
Extremely physically demanding
laborers · movers · crew · longshoremen · stevedores · dockhands · roustabouts · teamsters · manual · heavy-lifting
supply-chain
Production-to-consumer pathway
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- warehousingStoring goods commercially
- fulfillmentState of achieved purpose
procurement · routing · dispatch · tracking · delivery · last-mile · scheduling · consignment · forwarding · transit
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- manual laborfarming, lifting, carrying, shoveling, loading
- truckingsemi, 18-wheeler, trucks, truckers, big rig
- odd jobshome repair, repairs, errands, errand running, furniture assembly
- draft workplowing, carting, towing, drayage, tilling
- farm laborfarmhands, farm labor, field hand, field hands, farm hand
haulingpushing
Applying force to move
shoving · thrusting · propelling · driving · nudging
haulingleaving
Act of going away
abandoning · leaving behind · dropping · stranding · ditching
haulingunloading
Removing contents from carrier
offloading · dropping · dumping · discharging · releasing
- hauling offTransporting something away
- hauling assMoving very quickly
- hauling aroundTransporting things laboriously
- cargo hauling
- keel haulingNautical corporal punishment
- trash haulingTransporting refuse for disposal