freight

Some businesses have diverted some of their freight from truck to train to find relief from higher trucking costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Airports remain closed or severely disrupted across much of North America, while railways, freight depots and farms struggle to operate.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The company develops electric self-driving freight vehicles and software platforms for companies from PepsiCo and to European brewers Carlsberg and Heineken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

S&P Global says alternative supplies, external can mean higher crude, freight and insurance costs, while longer shipping routes add to the burden.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Sleeping on a freight train is like nothing else.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

There’s something of a pattern here, one that freights that statement with irony.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023

Although it initially freights our empathy scale to favor Gauthier's side, the story humanizes all parties as it progresses.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022

The sheer cost of her course load freights every school day with expectation.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019

Rounders such as Johnson would hop freights if they had no money for a regular ticket.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2017

We are aware that the idea is commonly entertained that the people receive an equivalent for these railroad grants in the increased facilities for travel and transportation of freights.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

The assertion that Asian Americans and other nonwhite immigrants don’t “assimilate”—a freighted term, to be sure—is both easy and hard to refute.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Some elements of this year’s White House decor theme seem similarly freighted.

From Salon ● Dec. 11, 2025

That complicated human-rights situation is freighted with Saudi Arabia’s history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

But the Nigerien connection remained significant and freighted with a degree of political and perhaps even cultural weight.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

I was not just a spouse but the husband of a black woman, a freighted symbol of black love.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The heatwave lowered levels in the Rhine River - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025

And, he said, growth in freighting has slowed in the years since the pandemic boost, with warehouses seeing higher job vacancy rates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025

Shannon frames each scene in his modest film with care, freighting many of his shots through doors and windows with meaning.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023

The company turned briefly to air freighting products to meet demand, but at five or six times the cost of sea freight, it cut into the company’s profits.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2021

My uncle had worked with him over the years when Big Schoolboy ran a freighting business, carrying goods back and forth by horse-drawn wagon between his home in Chinle and Gallup.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac