# Logistics - what is drayage?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logistics-what-is-drayage/653541 "2013-03-21T15:22:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logistics-what-is-drayage/653541/21 "2013-03-21T23:46:52Z")

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Ignorance well fought. Thanks! 🙂

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/logistics-what-is-drayage/653541/22 "2013-03-22T03:34:28Z")

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Drayage usually means the short-distance conveyance of a container. In the Chicago region it’s used a lot for interchanging containers. The rail network is congested and—by definition—one-dimensional, so it’s often much faster to take the container off at one intermodal yard, drop it on a chassis, and drive it a few miles to the other railroad’s intermodal yard where it’s loaded onto a double-stack train and headed out for the container’s destination. A fair proportion of the truck traffic on some Chicago roadways is drayage.

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