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

There was a strong quarter-on-quarter improvement on freight rates, while volumes declined by 1% on year, which is a similar development to its Gemini shipping network alliance partner Maersk, the bank says.

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

The Americans took the boys to a short stretch of railroad track, not far from the main camp, where fifty freight cars stood.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

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

At its bumpered end were three old empty freights.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Allen Chapman

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

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

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

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

“This, in 1865, was particularly freighted language,” Lepore observes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

Weariness and sorrow freighted each page of his letter.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

What’s fallen off a little is the stories freighting that message.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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