42 Multiple choice questions

1. An alternative name for airfreight containers
   1. Ton Miles
   2. Land bridge services
   3. Unit load devices (ULD)
   4. Unit load (unitization)
2. U.S. federal government body with primary responsibility for transportation safety regulation
   1. Piggyback transportation
   2. Department of Transportation (DOT)
   3. Intermodal transportation
   4. Surface Transportation Board
3. Truck trailers on flatcars
   1. Piggyback transportation
   2. Surface Transportation Board
   3. Intermodal transportation
   4. Transportation
4. 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
   1. Broker
   2. TEU
   3. Barge
   4. Lock
5. A for-hire carrier that has been exempted from economic regulation through provisions in carious pieces of legislation
   1. Private carrier
   2. Common Carrier
   3. Exempt carrier
   4. Parcel Carriers
6. An order picker goes to where the product is located (A forklift)
   1. Slurry systems
   2. Picker-to-part system
   3. Closed-loop systems
   4. Part-to-picker system
7. Plastic wrapping that when heated shrinks in size to form a cover over the product
   1. Line-haul
   2. Terminal
   3. Broker
   4. Shrink-wrap
8. Consolidates freight shipments and buys transportation services in volume trades
   1. Contract Carrier
   2. Freight Forwarder
   3. Private carrier
   4. Exempt carrier
9. A flat sheet of either fiberboard material or plastic that is placed under the unit load
   1. Line-haul
   2. Slip sheet
   3. Cube out
   4. Pallet
10. Considers a shipment's density (the amount of space occupied relative to weight) to determine a shipment's billable weight
    1. Consignee
    2. Accessorial service
    3. Terminal
    4. Dimensional weight
11. Transportation service that is supplemental to line-haul transportation
    1. Accessorial service
    2. Contract Carrier
    3. Dimensional weight
    4. Land bridge services
12. Consolidation of several units into larger units to improve efficiency in handling and to reduce shipping costs
    1. Transportation
    2. Unit load devices (ULD)
    3. Unit load (unitization)
    4. Intermodal transportation
13. Companies that specialize in transporting parcels
    1. Parcel Carriers
    2. Private carrier
    3. Exempt carrier
    4. Common Carrier
14. Transportation carrier that has agreed to serve the general public and assumes four legal obligations: service, delivery, reasonable rates, and avoidance of discrimination
    1. Common Carrier
    2. Exempt carrier
    3. Parcel Carriers
    4. Contract Carrier
15. Refers to a combination of water transportation and surface transportation between an origin and destination port
    1. Private carrier
    2. Parcel Carriers
    3. Land bridge services
    4. Accessorial service
16. The short-distance movement of material between two or more points
    1. Materials Handling
    2. Packaging
    3. Terminal
    4. Parcel Carriers
17. The pick location is brought to the picker (A carousel)
    1. Closed-loop systems
    2. Slurry systems
    3. Picker-to-part system
    4. Part-to-picker system
18. Raises or lowers barges so that they can meet the river's level as they move upstream or downstream
    1. TEU
    2. Barge
    3. Pallet
    4. Lock
19. Flat board boat used to transport heavy products
    1. Lock
    2. Barge
    3. Broker
    4. Pallet
20. A motor carrier that focuses on shipments of greater than 10,000 pounds
    1. Truckload (TL) carrier
    2. Private carrier
    3. Contract Carrier
    4. Less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier
21. Transport products that are ground into a powder, mixed with water, and then shipped in slurry form through a pipeline
    1. Ton Miles
    2. Closed-loop systems
    3. Slurry systems
    4. Slip sheet
22. Materials used for the containment, protection, handling, delivery, and presentation of goods.
    1. Rail gauge
    2. Barge
    3. Packaging
    4. Lock
23. The science that seeks to adapt work or working conditions to suit the abilities of the worker
    1. Ton Miles
    2. Lock
    3. Ergonomics
    4. Broker
24. 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
    1. Contract Carrier
    2. Parcel Carriers
    3. Less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier
    4. Truckload (TL) carrier
25. Combining smaller packages into larger units that can be more efficiently handled at one time
    1. Weighing out
    2. Slip sheet
    3. Building-blocks concept
    4. Closed-loop systems
26. A contract carrier provides specialized service to each customer based on a contractual arrangement
    1. Contract Carrier
    2. Private carrier
    3. Common Carrier
    4. Exempt carrier
27. Refers to systems that consider the return flow of products, their reuse, and the marketing and distribution of recovered products
    1. Slip sheet
    2. Picker-to-part system
    3. Closed-loop systems
    4. Slurry systems
28. The distance between the inner sides of two parallel rail tracks
    1. Barge
    2. Packaging
    3. Rail gauge
    4. Line-haul
29. Companies whose primary business is other than transportation provide their own transportation service by operating truck, railcars, ships, or airplanes
    1. Exempt carrier
    2. Private carrier
    3. Common Carrier
    4. Contract Carrier
30. Actual physical movement of goods and people between two points
    1. Piggyback transportation
    2. Transportation
    3. Ergonomics
    4. Intermodal transportation
31. The number of tons times the number of miles
    1. Ton Miles
    2. Ergonomics
    3. Terminal
    4. Consignee
32. Nonprofit membership cooperatives that perform basically the same function as freight forwarders
    1. Shippers' associations
    2. Intermodal transportation
    3. Transportation
    4. Piggyback transportation
33. Cargo reaches a vehicle's or a container's weight capacity without filling its cubic capacity
    1. Weighing out
    2. Terminal
    3. Cube out
    4. Ergonomics
34. A carrier or public facility where freight (or passengers) is sifted between vehicles or modes
    1. Ton Miles
    2. Terminal
    3. Barge
    4. TEU
35. 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
    1. Surface Transportation Board
    2. Intermodal transportation
    3. Piggyback transportation
    4. Transportation
36. The receiver of a shipment
    1. Terminal
    2. Consignee
    3. Ton Miles
    4. Barge
37. A U.S. government agency with primary responsibility for regulating railroad pricing and service
    1. Intermodal transportation
    2. Piggyback transportation
    3. Transportation
    4. Surface Transportation Board
38. Twenty-foot equivalent unit; a measure of the number of 20-foot containers that are used or handled
    1. Barge
    2. TEU
    3. Lock
    4. Broker
39. Terminal-to-terminal movement of freight or passengers
    1. TEU
    2. Slip sheet
    3. Line-haul
    4. Cube out
40. A small platform on which goods are placed for handling by mechanical means
    1. Broker
    2. Pallet
    3. Barge
    4. TEU
41. 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
    1. Surface Transportation Board
    2. Globally Harmonized System of Classification and labeling of Chemicals (GHS)
    3. Department of Transportation (DOT)
    4. Unit load devices (ULD)
42. Occurs when a cargo takes up a vehicle's or a container's cubic capacity before reaching its weight capacity
    1. Pallet
    2. TEU
    3. Cube out
    4. Barge