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| Amodal Shipper | “A transportation manager who purchases a prespecified level of transportation service and is indifferent to the mode(s) or carrier(s) used to provide the actual transportation service.” |
| Bill of lading | “The most important single transportation document that is the basic operating document in the industry.” |
| Class rate system | “A system that simplifies each of the three primary rate factors—product |
| Commodity rate | “ A specific rate for every possible combination of product |
| Demmurrage | “A charge assessed by rail carriers to users that fail to unload and return vehicles or containers promptly.” |
| Density | “A measure of how heavy a product is in relation to its size.” |
| Detention | “A payment from a shipper or consignee to a truck carrier for having kept the carrier’s equipment too long.” |
| Diversion | “Occurs when the shipper notifies the carrier |
| Documentation | “The documents associated with transportation shipments.” |
| Expediting | “The need to rapidly move a shipment to its final destination.” |
| Freight Bill | “An invoice submitted by a transportation carrier requesting to be paid.” |
| Freight Claims | “A document that notifies a transportation carrier of wrong or defective deliveries |
| Hazardous material | “A substance or material in a quantity and form that may pose an unreasonable risk to health and safety or property when transported in commerce.” |
| Reconsignment | “Similar to diversion, but it occurs after the shipment has arrived in the destination city. |
| Routing | “The process of determining how a shipment will be moved between consignor and consignee or between place of acceptance by the carrier and p lace of delivery to the consignee.” |
| Routing guide | “Provides guidance in terms of a preferred list of carriers for shipments moving between two points.” |
| Stowability | “Refers to how easy a commodity is to pack into a load.” |
| Tracing | “A carrier’s attempt to determine a shipment’s location during the course of its move.” |
| Transportation management | “The buying and controlling of transportations ervices by either a shipper or consignee.” |
| Weight break | “The shipment size that equates transportation charges for different rates and weight groups.” |
