| A | B |
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| Accessorial service | “Transportation service that is supplemental to line-haul transportation.” |
| Barge | “flatboard boat used to transport heavy products.” |
| Broker | “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.” |
| Common carrier | “Transportation carrier that has agreed to serve the general public and assumes four legal obligations: service, delivery, reasonable rates, and avoidance of discrimination. |
| Consignee | “The receiver of a shipment” |
| Contract Carrier | “A contract carrier provides specialized service to each customer based on a contractual arrangement.” |
| Department of Transportation (DOT) | “U.S. federal government body with primary responsibility for transportation safety regulation.” |
| Dimensional (dim) weight | ”Considers a shipment’s density (the amount of space occupied relative to weight) to determine a shipment’s billable weight.” |
| Excess capacity | “Unused available space.” |
| Exempt carrier | “For-hire carriers that have been exempted from economic regulation through provisions in various pieces of legislation.” |
| Freight forwarder | “Consolidates freight shipments and buys transportation services in volume rates.” |
| Intermodal Transportation | “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. |
| Line-haul Terminal | -“to-terminal movement of freight or passengers.” |
| Parcel carriers | “Companies that specialize in transporting parcels” |
| Piggyback transportation | “Truck trailers on flatcars, also referred to as TOFC. |
| Private carrier | “Companies whose primary business is other than transportation provide their own transportation service by operating truck, railcars, barges, ships, or airplanes. |
| Rail gauge | “the distance between the inner sides of two parallel rail tracks.” |
| Shippers’ associations | “Nonprofit membership cooperatives that perform basically the same function as freight forwarders.” |
| Slurry systems | “Transport products that are ground into a powder, mixed with water, and then shipped in slurry form through a pipeline |
| Surface Transportation Board | “A U.S. government agency with primary responsibility for regulating railroad pricing and service.” |
| TEU | “Twenty-foot equivalent unit; a measure of the number of 20-foot containers that are used or handled.” |
| Terminal | “A carrier or public facility where freight (or passengers) is shifted between vehicles or modes.” |
| Ton Miles | “The number of tons times the number of miles.” |
| Transportation | “Actual physical movement of goods and people between two points.” |
