How to Use drayage in a Sentence

drayage

noun

• By 2035, all drayage trucks would need to be emissions-free.
  — Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2022
• The disruption even has spread to railroads, especially in drayage, the service of hauling seaborne shipping containers from ports to rail yards.
  — Fortune, 2 Apr. 2018
• Additionally, all drayage trucks—the ones that move containers around at places like the Port of Los Angeles—must also go emissions free by this date, as well as off-road vehicles and equipment.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2020
• The findings come as pressure ratchets on the port to adopt strict and binding timelines for its tenants to electrify everything from short-haul drayage trucks and forklifts to harbor and oceangoing vessels.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2021
• With that comes a wide range of vehicle weight and function classifications, such as operational uses, drayage, cartage, short- and middle-mile freight, long-haul freight, last-mile freight and specialty vehicles.
  — Alfred Poor, Forbes, 25 July 2022
• The settlements do not require XPO to reclassify its drivers as employees, but labor leaders nonetheless hailed the agreements, which will compensate 784 drivers, as a turning point in the fight over port drayage.
  — Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2021
• The Maritime Clean Air Strategy also called for transitioning diesel cargo-handling equipment, such as cranes, drayage trucks and forklifts to zero-emission technology by 2030.
  — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
• But as battery prices have fallen, the economics of making wireless charging roads doesn't appear to make much sense beyond low-speed applications like taxi queues at stations or airports or drayage trucks hauling shipping containers at ports.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
• 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
• These include big rigs, drayage trucks, terminal tractors, forklifts, and other industrial equipment.
  — Nathaniel Horadam, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2020
• This had significant repercussions concerning logistics systems—container shortages, public warehouse space challenges, and pier drayage delays drove up costs for everyone.
  — Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024