freight

Union Pacific’s UNP -0.69%decrease; red down pointing triangle chief executive may have tanked his own deal, a $71.5 billion plan to create a transcontinental railroad that he touted as the future of freight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

The company raised its full-year guidance Wednesday citing continued strength in spot freight rates and a better fourth-quarter business performance than previously expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Avoiding tariffs and ocean freight saved money, but domestic shipping brought the total to $1,230.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

However, it cautioned that freight rates are volatile and that given current persistent geopolitical challenges, the forecast is subject to a considerable degree of uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Florida heard the faint wail of the freight train as it wound its way through the distant hills, and she pulled the quilt up close to her face.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

The duchess freights whatever products she releases with opinion and emotions, as we’ll soon see once her recently renamed, freshly launched brand As Ever gets up and running.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

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

Whereas The Bachelor freights every sidelong glance with portent, DWTS’s stumbles and heartbreaks are all edited to make the stakes feel as low as possible.

From Slate ● May 24, 2016

No one would wish those engaged in transporting freights from the west to the east to lose money in the business.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

There is no historical template for a technology that is both immensely beneficial and deeply dangerous, freely accessible, fast-evolving and freighted with geopolitical significance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Can you please unpack the really freighted language in the birthright citizenship clause that is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2026

But this is a story freighted with symbolism and one which has drawn outsized international attention because of its connection to that other world religion - football.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

Projecting individual meaning onto our favorite shows is a natural result of an emotionally freighted medium.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

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