backload
/ˈbækˌloʊd/
noun
- A load of cargo carried on a return trip.
- The driver found a backload of lumber for the trip home.
- The backload of supplies helped the company reduce fuel costs.
- We need to arrange a backload to avoid traveling with an empty truck.
verb
- To load or assign something, especially work or tasks, to a later time or stage.
- The team decided to backload the most difficult tasks to the end of the project.
- The company tends to backload payments so that most of the money is paid after delivery.
- If you backload your schedule, you might run out of time for important steps.
- To load cargo or goods onto a vehicle for a return trip.
- They backload the empty containers to save on shipping costs.
- The shipping company often backloads goods from the port to the inland depot.
- The truck driver picked up a backload of furniture to bring back to the warehouse.