Definitions
The type of trucking equipment
What is the mode of transportation?
Shipment of oversized pinatas is already loaded, and the driver's only job is to get it to the part on time
What is Tow Away?
A trailer hauling frozen ice cream, popsicles, and regret if the temperature ever creeps above 0 degrees F.
What is Reefer?
No more than 10,000 to 15,000 lbs.
What is the weight limit for an LTL?
Pharmaceuticals.
What is Reefer?
The type of trucking equipment that provides the engine and pulling power.
What is a tractor?
A truck driving empty stops at a warehouse and picks up pallets of produce.
What is Load Out?
Steel beams so long they look like they're trying to joust traffic, strapped down with enough chains to make a pirate jealous.
What is Flatbed?
No more than 42,500 to 44,000 lbs.
What is the weight limit for a Reefer?
Machinery loaded from the side that requires coverage.
What is Conestoga?
A shipping method that uses more than one mode of transportation in a single journey.
What is intermodal transportation?
Empty trailer sits in Chicago, needs to be returned to Birmingham ASAP, carrier just needs to hook and go.
What is Load Out
Five pallets of auto parts riding along with dog food, office chairs, and someone else's return shipment to save a few bucks.
What is LTL?
No more than 48,000 lbs.
What is the weight limit for a flatbed.
Shipping containers full of TransLoop merch moving from the port to a warehouse across town.
What is Drayage?
The planning decision to use multiple transportation modes for one shipment.
What is mode mix?
What is Tow Away.
A single shipper's cargo fills the trailer with 26 pallets of boxed furniture--no Tetris necessary.
What is FTL?
No more than 45,000 lbs.
What is the weight limit for a FTL/Dry Van?
A refrigerator packed with vaccines is ready for transport, and your company supplies just the tractor and the driver.
What is Power Only?