trucking
Highway cargo business
Trucking is the business or activity of transporting goods by truck.
The trucking industry moves freight across highways and forms the backbone of commercial shipping in many countries: Her family has been in trucking for three generations.
Informally, trucking can mean moving along steadily or making progress: Keep on trucking.
Transported goods
- shipmentGoods being transported
- loadCarried weight or burden
- haulPull or carry laboriously
- goodsThings for sale
merchandise · consignment · payload · bulk · commodity · freight · pallets · containers
Large freight truck
- 18-wheelerLarge articulated cargo truck
- tractor-trailerCab-and-trailer cargo vehicle
- cabVehicle for hire
- sleeperOne at rest
flatbed · lowboy · tanker · reefer · Peterbilt · Kenworth · trailer · chassis
Major road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
- long-haulCovering great distances
- cross-countryTraversing wide natural terrain
- turnpikeFee-charging highway
convoy · on-ramp · overpass · bypass · detour · route · lumper · deadhead
Production-to-consumer pathway
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- warehousingStoring goods commercially
- dispatchSend with speed
- schedulingAssigning times to events
tracking · routing · broker · shipper · consignee · manifest · telematics · hub
Vehicle operator
- owner-operatorPerson running own enterprise
- teamsterProfessional cargo driver
- CDLCommercial driving license
- endorsementFormal expression of support
logbook · dispatcher · fleet · union · Teamsters · regional · local · dedicated
cargo
Transported goods
goods · merchandise · consignment · payload · bulk · commodity · freight · pallets · containers · deadhead
semi
Large freight truck
- 18-wheelerLarge articulated cargo truck
- tractor-trailerCab-and-trailer cargo vehicle
- cabVehicle for hire
sleeper · flatbed · lowboy · tanker · reefer · Peterbilt · Kenworth · trailer · chassis · axle
highway
Major road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
- long-haulCovering great distances
- cross-countryTraversing wide natural terrain
turnpike · convoy · on-ramp · overpass · bypass · detour · route · lumper · deadhead · bobtail
supply-chain
Production-to-consumer pathway
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- warehousingStoring goods commercially
- dispatchSend with speed
scheduling · tracking · routing · broker · shipper · consignee · manifest · telematics · hub · terminal
driver
Vehicle operator
- owner-operatorPerson running own enterprise
- teamsterProfessional cargo driver
- CDLCommercial driving license
endorsement · logbook · dispatcher · fleet · union · Teamsters · regional · local · dedicated · layover
- truckingsemi, 18-wheeler, truckers, big rig, tractor-trailer
- Freight & Logisticsrail freight, air freight, sea freight, container ships, freight trains
- Canadian Industriesaerospace, automotive, biotechnology, construction, dairy
- distributiondistribution, distributors, distributor, allocation, allotment
- Midwest Economycorn farming, wheat farming, grain elevators, farm equipment, John Deere
- transport policyhighway funding, congestion pricing, fuel taxes, infrastructure funding, highway tolls
truckingrail freight
Goods transported by train
shipping · rail transport · maritime shipping · air freight · ocean freight
truckingwarehousing
Storing goods commercially
storage · stockpiling · holding · parking
- keep on truckingContinue despite difficulties
- long haul trucking
- long-haul truckingTransporting goods great distances
- trucking companiesFreight transportation businesses
- trucking companyRoad cargo transporter
- kept on truckingMaintained forward momentum despite difficulties
truck, trucks, transportation, trucked, trucker, truckload, truckle, truckful, truck in