longhaul

Verb

longhaul (third-person singular simple present longhauls, present participle longhauling, simple past and past participle longhauled)

1. (transitive) To travel a long distance.
   • Though they breed in the High Arctic summer, Arctic terns 'winter' south in the austral summer, thus living a life of perpetual summer and almost endless daylight in the classic example of 'globe-spanning'. […] Longhauling 22,000 miles a year they are the only northern breeding species which...2008 July, Tony Soper, “Arctic Tern: Sterna paradisaea”, in Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife, 5th edition, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, Ct.: The Globe Pequot...
   • The words hung between them, heavy with self-recrimination. Harriet shook her head. What was the point in this? More Poor me before she long-hauled it back across the Atlantic? She had enough baggage, thank you very much.2016, Annie O'Neill, One Night, Twin Consequences (Monticello Baby Miracles), London: Mills & Boon, →ISBN
2. (transitive) To transport goods over long distances.
   • Q. What would the Denver & Rio Grande Western get if it hauled that same car from Salt Lake to Pueblo and longhauled it to Santa Fe on its own branch? / A. About 26 or 27 cents.1941, Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Abandonment of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Between Antonito, Colorado, and Santa Fe, New Mexico: Hearings before a...
   • […] Foreign Trade Zone cargoes may be discharged at Berth 60 and longhauled with stevedoring equipment into Foreign Trade Zone No. 4.1954, Foreign Trade Zones in the U.S.A. (Technical Assistance Mission; 28), Paris: Organisation for European Economic Cooperation, →OCLC, page 53