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- An alternative name for airfreight containers
- U.S. federal government body with primary responsibility for transportation safety regulation
- Truck trailers on flatcars
- A
company that helps both shipper and carrier achieve lower freight rates
and more efficient utilization of carrier equipment. Brokers also help
match carriers to loads
- A for-hire carrier that has been exempted from economic regulation through provisions in carious pieces of legislation
- An order picker goes to where the product is located (A forklift)
- Plastic wrapping that when heated shrinks in size to form a cover over the product
- Consolidates freight shipments and buys transportation services in volume trades
- A flat sheet of either fiberboard material or plastic that is placed under the unit load
- Considers a shipment's density (the amount of space occupied relative to weight) to determine a shipment's billable weight
- Transportation service that is supplemental to line-haul transportation
- Consolidation of several units into larger units to improve efficiency in handling and to reduce shipping costs
- Companies that specialize in transporting parcels
- Transportation
carrier that has agreed to serve the general public and assumes four
legal obligations: service, delivery, reasonable rates, and avoidance of
discrimination
- Refers to a combination of water transportation and surface transportation between an origin and destination port
- The short-distance movement of material between two or more points
- The pick location is brought to the picker (A carousel)
- Raises or lowers barges so that they can meet the river's level as they move upstream or downstream
- Flat board boat used to transport heavy products
- A motor carrier that focuses on shipments of greater than 10,000 pounds
- Transport products that are ground into a powder, mixed with water, and then shipped in slurry form through a pipeline
- Materials used for the containment, protection, handling, delivery, and presentation of goods.
- The science that seeks to adapt work or working conditions to suit the abilities of the worker
- Shipments
that range from about 150 to 10,000 pounds; they are often too big to
handle manually, yet they do not fill an entire truck
- Combining smaller packages into larger units that can be more efficiently handled at one time
- A contract carrier provides specialized service to each customer based on a contractual arrangement
- Refers
to systems that consider the return flow of products, their reuse, and
the marketing and distribution of recovered products
- The distance between the inner sides of two parallel rail tracks
- Companies
whose primary business is other than transportation provide their own
transportation service by operating truck, railcars, ships, or airplanes
- Actual physical movement of goods and people between two points
- The number of tons times the number of miles
- Nonprofit membership cooperatives that perform basically the same function as freight forwarders
- Cargo reaches a vehicle's or a container's weight capacity without filling its cubic capacity
- A carrier or public facility where freight (or passengers) is sifted between vehicles or modes
- Using
a container that can be transferred from the vehicle of one mode to a
vehicle of another, and with the movement covered under a single bill of
lading
- The receiver of a shipment
- A U.S. government agency with primary responsibility for regulating railroad pricing and service
- Twenty-foot equivalent unit; a measure of the number of 20-foot containers that are used or handled
- Terminal-to-terminal movement of freight or passengers
- A small platform on which goods are placed for handling by mechanical means
- An
effort by the United Nations to classify and label hazardous materials
that provides three key pieces of information (1) a symbol, (2) a signal
work, and (3) a hazard statement
- Occurs when a cargo takes up a vehicle's or a container's cubic capacity before reaching its weight capacity