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equipment
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flat
flatbed
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Fuel Optimization
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haul
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hauling
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hopper
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IFS
independent truck driver
Intermediary
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Internet truckstop
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Lading Bill
less than a truck load
less than truckload
live floor trailer
load
load board
load match
load matching
load planning
loadboard
loading dock loads
loads online
Logistics
long haul
ltl
matching
mileage
online freight
operator
OTR
Over the road trucking
owner
owner operator
owner operator truck
driver
pick ups
pigg back
piggy-back
post
post loads
private fleet
quote
reefer
reefers sale
refridgerated
refrigerated
refrigerated truck
road conditions
roadlink
route
searching
semi
semi trailer
semi truck
sending
service logistics
ship
shipment
shipper
shipping
short haul
specialty equipment
speedway
Supply Chain
Supply Chain management
tanker
temperature controlled
third party logistics
ton
tracing
tracking
tractor
traffic
Traffic management
Traffic manager
trailer
transport
transportation
Transportation Directory
truck
truck company
truck driver
truck driving career
Truck Driving Job
Truck Driving School
truck freight
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trucker
trucker news
trucker edge
truckin
trucking
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trucking co
trucking company
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trucking links
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Goods
carried by a vessel or vehicle, especially by a commercial carrier;
cargo.
A burden; a load.
Commercial
transportation of goods.
The charge for transporting goods. Also called freightage.
A railway train carrying goods only.
tr.v.
freight·ed, freight·ing,
freights
To convey commercially as cargo.
To load with goods to be transported. Pronunciation: frat
n. 1. That with which anything is fraught or laden for transportation;
lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.;
as, a freight of cotton; a full freight.
2. (Law) The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship
for the use of what is thus hired.
3. Freight transportation, or freight line.
a. 1. Employed in the transportation of freight; having to do with
freight; as, a freight car.Freight agent
a person employed by a transportation company to receive, forward,
or deliver goods.
Freight car
See under Car.
Freight train
a railroad train made up of freight cars; - called in England goods
train.
v. t. 1. To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind,
for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with
freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.
[imp. & p. p. Freighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Freighting.]
Noun 1. freight - goods carried by a large vehicle
Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, shipment, payload, load, loading
2. freight - transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than
express rates
Synonyms: freightage
3. freight - the charge for transporting something by common carrier;
"we pay the freight"; "the freight rate is usually
cheaper"
Synonyms: freight rate, freightage
Verb 1. freight - transport commercially as cargo
2. freight - load with goods for transportation
Amtrak, air express, air-express, airfreight, airlift, airmail,
asportation, bag, baggage, baggage train, bale, barrel, bear, bear
hard upon, bearing, bottle, box, brim, burden, burdening, burthen,
cable railroad, can, carload, carriage, carry, carrying, cartage,
cartload, charge, charging, chock, choo-choo, cog railroad, cog
railway, conduct, congest, consign, consignment, convey, conveyance,
cram, crate, cross, crowd, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, delivery,
difficulty, disadvantage, dispatch, drag, drayage, drop a letter,
duty, el, electric, electric train, elevated, embark, embarrassment,
encumber, encumbrance, expedite, export, express, express train,
expressage, ferriage, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, flier,
fly, forward, freight train, freightage, freighter, funicular, goods,
goods train, hamper, handicap, haul, haulage, hauling, heap, heap
up, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus,
incumbency, interurban, jam, jam-pack, lade, lading, lift, lighterage,
lightning express, limited, loading, local, lug, luggage, lugging,
lumber, mail, manhandle, mass, metro, milk train, millstone, monorail,
onus, oppress, oppression, overburden, overfill, overload, overtax,
overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, pack, pack away, packing,
pad, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, payload,
penalty, pile, pocket, portage, porterage, post, poundage, press
hard upon, pressure, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, railway
express, ram in, rattler, remit, rest hard upon, rolling stock,
sack, saddle, saddling, satiate, saturate, send, send away, send
forth, send off, ship, shipload, shipment, shipping, shuttle, shuttle
train, special, stack, store, stow, streamliner, stuff, subway,
supercharge, superincumbency, surcharge, surfeit, take, task, tax,
taxing, telpherage, tonnage, top off, tote, toting, trailerload,
train, trainload, transmit, transport, transportation, transshipment,
trouble, truckage, truckload, tube, underground, vanload, wad, waft,
waftage, wagonage, way train, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon,
weight, whisk, white elephant, wing freight container freight broker
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harbor freight Com´pa`ny Pronunciation: kum´på`ny
n. 1. The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying;
fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
Evil company doth corrupt good manners.
- 1 Cor. xv. 33. (Rev. Ver.).
Brethren, farewell: your company along
I will not wish.
- Milton.
2. A companion or companions.
To thee and thy company I bid
A hearty welcome.
- Shak.
3. An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or
transient.
Thou shalt meet a company of prophets.
- 1 Sam. x. 5.
4. Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family;
as, to invite company to dine.
5. Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though
not of shining in company.
- Swift.
6. An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some
enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India
Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
7. Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style
or title; - often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
8. (Mil.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command
of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100
men.
9. (Naut.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole
ship's company.
10. The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production
of a play.To keep company with
See under Keep, v. t.
v. t. 1. To accompany or go with; to be companion to.
[imp. & p. p. Companied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Companying.]
v. i. 1. To associate.
Men which have companied with us all the time.
- Acts i. 21.
2. To be a gay companion.
3. To have sexual commerce.
Noun 1. company - an institution created to conduct business; "he
only invests in large well-established companies"; "he
started the company in his garage"
2. company - organization of performers and associated personnel
(especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed
at the same hotel"
Synonyms: troupe
3. company - the state of being with someone; "he missed their
company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends"
Synonyms: companionship, fellowship, society
4. company - small military unit; usually two or three platoons
5. company - a band of people associated temporarily in some activity;
"they organized a party to search for food"; "the
company of cooks walked into the kitchen"
Synonyms: party
6. company - a social gathering of guests or companions; "the
house was filled with company when I arrived"
7. company - a social or business visitor; "the room was a
mess because he hadn't expected company"
Synonyms: caller
8. company - a unit of firefighters including their equipment; "a
hook-and-ladder company"
9. company - crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force
or personnel of a ship
Synonyms: ship's company
Verb 1. company - be a companion to somebody
Synonyms: companion, keep company, accompany
COMPANY. An association of a number of individuals for the purpose
of carrying on some legitimate business.
2. This term is not synonymous with partnership, though every such
unincorporated compass is a partnership.
3. Usage has reserved this term to associations whose members are
in greater number, their capital more considerable, and their enterprises
greater, either on account of their risk or importance freight company.
4. When these companies are authorized by the government, they are
known by the name of corporations. (q.v.)
5. Sometimes the word is used to represent those members of a partnership
whose names do not appear in the name of the firm; as, A.B &
Company. Vide, 12 Toull. n, 97; Mortimer on Commerce, 128. Vide
Club; Corporation; Firm; Parties to actions; Partnership.
Company has several meanings:
It is a type of business organization. See company (law).
It is a military unit. See company (military unit). It can refer
to the officers and crew, collectively, of a ship.
Company is a musical by Stephen Sondheim.
Company is a book by Samuel Beckett.
Company is a 2002 Hindi movie by Ram Gopal Varma starring Ajay Devgan
and Vivek Oberoi.
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utility, rank, regiment, repertory company, reserves, retinue, roommate,
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task force, team, teammate, third string, trade association, train,
tribe, troupe, trust, uninvited guest, unit, utility, varsity, visitant,
visitor, visitors, wing, work site, work space, workbench, workfellow,
workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable,
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