What's the difference between haulage and transport?

Haulage


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The road haulage and construction sectors must pursue best practice to improve their road safety record.
  • (2) A few yards from the Munich clock, the memorial to the victims of the 1958 air disaster, Ian McGill, 58, a haulage contractor from Bristol, was explaining its significance to his grand-daughters, Bonnie, eight, and Milly, seven.
  • (3) He trained as a lorry driver in Detroit, got a job with a long-distance haulage firm and slept in his vehicle to save his earnings.
  • (4) France should pay compensation to British holidaymakers and haulage companies for the disruption caused by the migrant crisis and wildcat strikes, Harriet Harman has said in a letter to David Cameron .
  • (5) "How is anyone facing serious criminal allegations going to feel being represented by a haulage company?"
  • (6) Peter Cullum from industry group the Road Haulage Association said the demands on Operation Stack remained unprecedented.
  • (7) The threat of a national fuel strike has receded after the Acas conciliation service confirmed that peace talks between tanker drivers and haulage companies will take place on Wednesday.
  • (8) After comprehensive school he went travelling in Australia, before returning to work as a lorry driver for his family's haulage company.
  • (9) Her employer is among many haulage companies hoping to take on more women.
  • (10) Quentin Willson Motoring journalist and FairFuelUK campaigner, Angus MacNeil MP SNP's Westminster spokesperson on transport, Geoff Dunning Chief executive, Road Haulage Association, Jason McCartney MP Conservative member of transport select committee, Naomi Long MP Deputy leader, Alliance party of Northern Ireland, Nigel Dodds MP Deputy leader, Democratic Unionist party, Paul Sanders Chairman, Association of Pallet Networks, Pete Williams Head of external affairs, RAC, Rob Flello MP Labour, Rob Shuttleworth Chief executive, UKLPG, Sammy Wilson MP DUP parliamentary spokesman on economic and finance matters, Tessa Munt MP Liberal Democrat, PPS to the secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, Theo de Pencier Chief executive, Freight Transport Association, Howard Cox FairFuelUK campaign founder
  • (11) Following Monday's announcement, it now appears that the seven haulage companies involved in the dispute have given their backing to the agenda drawn up by Acas.
  • (12) Richard Burnett, the chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, was less than impressed with the package: “Quite simply the measures I’ve just heard from David Cameron aren’t enough.
  • (13) A subsidiary of the haulage firm Eddie Stobart has emerged as a leading contender in bidding for a new generation of criminal legal aid contracts that would deprive defendants of the right to choose their own solicitor.
  • (14) The Briton said he was one of seven or eight drivers from the MJD haulage company who were stuck on either side of the Channel.
  • (15) He has worked in both the haulage and jewellery businesses, and has a lively hinterland; he loves skiing and sailing.
  • (16) The maneuverability of the sledge with the new haulage shaft was good and the braking mechanisms worked well.
  • (17) Compensation should cover all losses.” On Friday, Cameron and the French president, François Hollande discussed the crisis by phone, with the British government promising more secure fencing and sniffer dogs in a move that chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, Richard Burnett, called a “sticking plaster”.
  • (18) Richard Burnett of the Road Haulage Association later criticised the fact that the new secure zone will not be in place until the autumn.
  • (19) We have been calling on the British and French governments to intervene for some time, and are now asking the prime minister to give the matter his urgent priority and implement plans to alleviate the crisis.” The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has called for the deployment of the French military to boost security in Calais.
  • (20) Britain ‘poised to open door to thousands of migrant children’ Read more Richard Burnett, the Road Haulage Association’s chief executive, said the problems facing British truckers in Calais had become routine as he called for urgent action.

Transport


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
  • (v. t.) To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
  • (v. t.) To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
  • (v.) Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
  • (v.) A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
  • (v.) Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
  • (v.) A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (2) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
  • (3) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
  • (4) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
  • (5) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
  • (6) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (7) These results suggest the involvement of SRC in opsin transport.
  • (8) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
  • (9) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
  • (10) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
  • (11) Chronic CHP administration elicited significant increase in both KD and Bmax of striatal mazindol-binding sites (labelling DA transporter complex), but no change in either D1- or D2-type DA receptors.
  • (12) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
  • (13) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (14) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
  • (15) Basal and maximally insulin-stimulated rates of 3-O-methylglucose transport in adipocytes from obese and obese NIDDM subjects were reduced to 50% of the values in cells from normal subjects (P less than 0.05).
  • (16) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
  • (17) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
  • (18) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
  • (19) Benzylpenicillin showed small inhibition against succinate transport and ticarcillin against sulfate transport.
  • (20) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.

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