French term
les entreprises de transport routier de marchandises
Les entreprises de transport routier de marchandises vont mal. Toutes les fédérations du secteur ont tenté de tirer la sonnette d'alarme ces dernières semaines. Le ralentissement de l'activité qu'elles subissent depuis la fin 2007 se combine en effet avec une très forte hausse de leurs coûts.
Non-PRO (2): writeaway, Karen Stokes
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Proposed translations
trucking (US), road haulage (UK) companies
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-04-22 07:01:37 GMT)
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for UK, you could even simplier talk about "road hauliers", if you're pushed for space
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John Peterson
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B D Finch
: I can confirm the UK usage of road haulage companies, or hauliers for short. It's what I've always called them.
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it's what the trade calls them too
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Karen Stokes
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Ian Davies
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Italy
Lyudmila Gorbunova (married Zanella)
30 years in technical translations
Native in: Russian 
Works in: Italian to Russian, English to Russian, Russian to Italian, and 1 more.
automobile operating company; cartage company
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writeaway
: not at all. no automobiles and this is cartage: Noun 1. cartage - the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cartage
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B D Finch
: As writeaway says.
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Karen Stokes
: Ditto
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Freight companies / Trucking companies
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