He kept heading for the beach. The soldiers disembarked and he took the dead and wounded to the hospital ship.
VOA: standard.2009.06.02
Since commutes tend to be heavier in one direction than another, most fleet vehicles would incur extra costs dead-heading to return to the concentration of commuters for a second and third round during the rush periods.
On a fog-shrouded evening on the penultimate day of 1906, a dead-heading train roared down this stretch of tracks near Washington's Catholic University, coming upon a slower passenger train heading the same direction on the same track.