cartage

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The transport of goods by cart.

   “Near-synonym: wagonage”

   “Railways are forming in one quarter of this earth, canals in another, much cartage is wanted”

   “In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Any vehicular transportation of goods.

   “Near-synonyms: shipping, carriage”

   “I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A charge made for such transport.

   “Near-synonym: wagonage”

   “1842 Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners - Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Two-thirds of the usual expense of street cleansing is the expense of cartage, which, with a proper adaptation of the sewers, is wholly unnecessary.”