<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:14px"><div><span>As Dudley said, "Haulage contractor" is standard British-English for firms (and individuals) who own and operate Heavy Goods Vehicles (over 3.5 t IIRC) to transport a whole range of loads. As others have said logistics is about the whole chain of processes rather than specifically individual movements.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>A more generic term might be "road freight".</span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Jerry</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, 9 October 2014, 23:35, johnw <johnw@mac.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0841461146"><div><br
clear="none"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" dir="ltr"><div style='font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;' dir="ltr"></div></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div><b style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Distribution logistics</b> is the *planning* of moving goods from a factory to the customer - the post office isn't a logistics company. Fedex or UPS, wich will pick up, store, warehouse, and ship another company's goods as they request them to be shipped to the customer for them is a Distribution Logistics company. - they plan it (to guarantee delivery) and move it all too.
</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>It seems that Haulage is like for ore transport or bulk goods - not something you'd do with a truck on the highway. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I think it is something commonly described as a logistics company. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Courrier just delivers a package for a to b for a fee, like a local or regional delivery company. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>maybe </div><div>commercial=logistics &</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>logistics=Distribution</div><div>logistics=Courrier</div><div>logistics=Trucking to pick up the remainder, as there are a myriad of special delivery places - piano movers, livestock delivery, boat movers, for example. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_driver#Job_categories" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"
shape="rect">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_driver#Job_categories</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div>missed a couple:<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><div>logistics would also cover the intermodal companies - moving shipping containers from boat to train to truck, as well as moving companies (people who move your house contents to another house) and storage/delivery companies. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>logistics=yard [for freight yards]</div><div>logistics=warehouse [for the gigantic warehouses they use]</div><div>logistics=intermodal</div><div>logistics= movers</div><div class="yiv0841461146yqt5855213011" id="yiv0841461146yqtfd38541"><div><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="-ms-word-wrap: break-word;"><div>Javbw</div></div></blockquote><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv0841461146yqt5855213011"
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