freight

Still, pressures are mounting as high diesel prices, freight surcharges and rising agricultural costs grind through production networks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

While freight costs react immediately, the peak price impact on grocery shelves takes 12 to 18 months to fully filter through production and distribution markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Resilient Gulf exports, easing freight costs and a softer physical market have helped too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The average per-mile spot-market rate to move dry-van truckload freight in October, the highest average since February 2022, even as fuel costs eased slightly, according to DAT Freight & Analytics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Her words were immediately eaten up by the freight train roar of the storm.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

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

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2023

Pairing her with Paul, who brings a hardened soulfulness to Caleb, freights their adventure with palpable tautness.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2022

At night, the carriage can rock while negotiating a bend and freights enter your dreams as their cargo thrums past but these minor intrusions authenticate a true railway experience.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 29, 2020

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

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019

Where commerce is open to competition, a fair remunerative price for carrying freights is all that is demanded or paid.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Maybe this is why I have long treated “Ask a Manager” as both advice column and anthropological expedition behind the cubicle wall, where completely ordinary behaviors can become freighted with professional meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

TORONTO—Over the past 17 months, as President Trump has freighted Canada’s economy with several rounds of punishing tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney has often repeated the guiding maxim for his negotiations with the U.S.:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The fruit is pre-cooled for five hours before being packed and transported in refrigerated vans and then stored in cold rooms before being air freighted.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

From there, the council freighted the policy with stipulations that made it difficult to actually satisfy.

From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026

Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

Environmental advocates have long warned about the dangers of trains freighting hazardous chemicals.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

Per the statement from the White House, "Bypassing regular air freighting routes will speed up the importation and distribution of formula and serve as an immediate support as manufacturers continue to ramp up production."

From Salon ● May 18, 2022

One of the islands' main salmon exporters - Hiddenfjord - is also doing its bit, by ceasing the air freighting of its fresh fish.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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