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Trucks +
Calculate RPM
People and Things
100

I am the middleman between the shipper and carrier, but I do not represent one side over the other.

What is the Broker?

100
A Rate based upon the number of miles the commodity is shipped?
What is a rate per mile
100
A Reefer
What is- a refrigerated trailer.
100

Load is going 400 miles and it's paying $1,200.0

$1,200.00/$400.00 = $3.00 per mile

100

What does a Factoring Company do?

A Factoring Company buys the unpaid invoice from slow paying Brokers.

200

Four reasons to negotiate prices?

Carrier unloaded and ready to go

Special equipment needed

Multiple stops

Carrier is going to an area where's it possible, he may not get a backhaul load and he must deadhead from there.

Commodity that carrier will haul.

200

What is the most important document in the shipping process?

BOL Bill of Lading

200

The Motor Carrier Identification Number?

What is an MC#?

200

Load is going 250 miles and it's paying $1,100.00?

$1,100.00/$250.00 = $4.40 per mile.

200
A document issued by a customer/shipper for the receipt of goods for shipment which also describes the terms of the shipment.
What is Bill of Lading?
300

Rate to start off with as a new dispatcher?

6% to 7%. You do not want to charge too low or too high.

300
OS&D
What is over, short and/or damaged
300

A driver needing a load to take him back to his desired origin or home base.

What is Backhaul.

300

Load is going 24 miles and it pays $200.00.

$8.33.

300
Tractor operating without a trailer
What is a Bobtail and/or Power Only?
400

Some fees Carrier can expect.

Layover Pay, Detention Pay, Extra Stops, Load and Unload Pay, Tarp Pay, Accessorial Pay, Claim, CPM, Lumper, TONU


400
This is the lowest price that will be invoiced by a carrier for transportation services.
What is a minimum Charge
400
An enterprise that fulfills the request for goods or services
What is the Shipper?
400

A load picks up 30 miles from where the truck was originally parked. So the truck leaves where they are and then drives for 30 miles to pick-up location. At the pick-up location the truck gets loaded. Once they leave the pick-up location and are fully loaded, they drive 70 miles to the drop-off location and get unloaded.

Identify the deadhead miles, loaded miles, and total miles.

Deadhead miles = 30 (they drove for 30 miles with nothing on the truck).

Loaded miles = 70 (they drove for 70 miles while the truck was loaded).

Total miles = 100 (they drove a total of 100 miles on this particular load).

400
A document indicating that insurance has been secured under an open policy to cover loss or damage to a shipment while in transit.
What is Certificate of Insurance?
500

COI, MC#, W-9.

What is a Carrier Packet

500
The term used for when freight is loaded and packaged onto pallets for shipping?
What is palletized
500

A fee owed to the carrier/driver when a truck has been dispatched and is on his way to the pick up location of the freight and/or arrives and there is no load available.

What is Truck Order Not Used?

500

Load is going 570 miles and it's paying $960.00

Your driver at least wants loads paying 2.50 a mile. 

Would you book this load for your driver?

$1.68

No

500

Name some duties of a dispatcher?

Booking loads, negotiating rates, doing credit check on Broker, and submitting BOL once load has been dropped to the factoring company. 

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