Chapter 12 - Transportation Flashcards
Rail gauge
The distance between the inner sides of two parallel rail tracks
Line haul
Terminal to terminal movement of freight or passengers
Consignees
Receivers of freight
Dimensional weight
Considers a shipment’s density to determine a shipment’s billable weight
Less than truckload
150-10k lbs
Too big to be handled manually, but don’t fill an entire truck
Truckload carriers
Shipments greater than 10k lbs
Close to amount that would physically fill a trailer
Slurry systems
Allow bulk commodities to become liquefies blue by grinding the solid material to a certain particle size, mixing it with a liquid to form a fluid muddy substance, pumping that substance through a pipeline, and then decanting the liquid and removing it, leaving the solid material
Barge
Flat board boat used to transport heavy products
Lock
Raises or lowers barges so they can meet the river’s level as they move upstream or downstream
Intermodal transportation
Transportation that uses a container or other equipment that can be transferred from the vehicle of one mode to that of another without the contents being reloaded or disturbed
Piggyback transportation
Either truck trailer on flatcar or container on flatcar in order to take advantage of rail’s low transportation costs on the line haul along with truck’s ability to provide door to door service
Unit load devices ULDs
Airfreight containers constructed of lightweight materials
TEU
20ft equivalent unit
Freight forwarders
Consolidators of freight
Shippers’ associations
Same function as surface and airfreight forwarders, but don’t operate for profit
Parcel carriers
Companies that specialize in transporting parcels (packages up to 150lbs)
Brokers
Companies that look to match a shipper’s freight with a carrier to transport it
Common carrier
Agreed to serve the general public; must serve, deliver, charge reasonable rates, and avoid discrimination in pricing and service
Contract carrier
Offers a specialized service to customer on a contractual basis
Exempt carriers
For hire carriers that have been exempted form economic regulation through provisions in various pieces of legislation
Private carriers
Companies whose primary business is other than transportation and provide their own transportation service
Transportation
The actual physical movement of goods and people between two points
