Haulage is the business of carrying goods by road. A haulage firm, road haulage, haulage costs.
It is the British trade word, and a haulage contractor is what an American would call a trucking company. The charge for the carrying is also called the haulage.
1nounhaulageThe business of carrying goods by road.
“His father ran a small haulage firm out of two yards.”
haulage is a business.
Proto-Indo-European
*kelh₁- — to call, cry, summon
Proto-Germanic
*halōną
Old English
*halian — to haul, drag
Middle Dutch
halen — to drag, fetch, haul
Frankish
*halōn — to drag, fetch, haul
Old French
haler — to haul, pull
Middle English
hālen
English
haul
English, today
haulage
Built from
From haul + -age. haul comes from Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic halōną, halēną, hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb. 2 The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, stq halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).
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