Logistics Basics
This document has all the shipment details (Customer, commodity, weight, shipper, receiver)
What is a Bill of Lading (BOL)?
The name for the extra charges in addition to the linehaul rate.
What is an Accessorial?
The name for a dedicated shipment that typically fills an entire truck.
What is a Full Truckload (FTL)?
Our top 3 carrier vetting tools.
What is Highway, Carrier411 and Turvo?
The name of our Transportation Management System (TMS).
What is Turvo?
What is a 3PL?
The name of the fee we pay a carrier for waiting time over 2 hours at the shipper/receiver.
What is Detention?
Shipments that don't take up the entire space of a truck that are moved with a common carrier.
What is Less than Truckload (LTL)?
The minimum requirement for cargo insurance our carriers must have.
What is $100,000?
The name of the public load board that we post our available loads on.
What is DAT?
The name for "point A to point B" (where freight is picked up and delivered).
What is a Lane?
The fee charged by a carrier when a load is cancelled close to the pickup time.
What is a Truck Order Not Used (TONU)?
The number of standard pallets you can fit in a dry van trailer?
What is 26 pallets?
The method and system in which we send carrier rate confirmations.
What is Highway 2-Factor Authentication?
Rules that limit how long a driver can operate in a day, and how is it regulated?
What is Hours of Service and Electronic Logging Device (ELD)?
The offer or “awarding” of freight from a shipper to a carrier or broker.
What is a Load Tender?
A hired person/team that loads a truck at a pickup and/or unloads a truck at a delivery.
What is a Lumper?
The maximum cargo weight on a straight truck.
What is 10,000 lbs?
Shipments over this value/dollar amount must be reviewed by compliance prior to quoting/accepting the load.
What is $250,000?
Two places/platforms that we should review when checking for rates.
Documentation provided by the Federal Government stating approval to transport goods nationally.
What is a Motor Carrier # (MC#)?
One leg of the overall move without a paying cargo load.
What is Deadhead?
The maximum height you can legally fit on a flatbed?
What is 110"?
The amount of time a carrier must have authority prior to hauling a High Value/High Risk shipment for Windmill.
What is 1+ year?
The tool that our Technology Team created that allows us to proactively address potential issues or red flags during transit.
What is the Shipment Exception Manager (SEM) tool?