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Trucking Industry
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Answer 39 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Pickup and delivery.
P&D
Customs Broker
Tailgate or Liftgate
Bill of Lading
2. Used to transport most products -makes products easy to handle with a pallet jack or forklift.
Common Carrier
Pallet / Skid
Hours-Of-Service
A.C.E. Automated Commerical Environment
3. Any person who sells transportation without actually providing it. Usually refers to agent for TL shipments -matching small shippers with carriers. Freight brokers often do not accept any responsibility for their shipments.
Fixed Tandem
Container (Shipping Container)
Freight Broker
A.C.E. Automated Commerical Environment
4. These are used primarily in the city as they are smaller -box sizes vary from 20-28 feet in length -usually also carry a power tailgate.
JIT (Just-In-Time)
5 Ton / Straight Truck
LTL
Cube (Cubic Capacity)
5. Pair of axles and associated suspension usually located close together.
Bill of Lading
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
Tandem Axle (Tandems)
Pallet / Skid
6. Provides customs clearance on behalf of a shipper or consignee
5 Ton / Straight Truck
Reefer Van
Common Carrier
Customs Broker
7. Manufacturing system which depends on frequent -small deliveries of parts and supplies to keep on-site inventory to a minimum.
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
Pallet Jack
JIT (Just-In-Time)
Container Ship
8. Freight transportation company which serves the general public. May be regular route service (over designated highways on a regular basis) or irregular route (between various points on an unscheduled basis).
Pallet Jack
Reefer Van
Tailgate or Liftgate
Common Carrier
9. The commercial trade processing system that has been developed by the U.S. Customs & Border Protection to facilitate legitimate trade and strengthen border security requiring every carrier cor truck that enters through any and all border rossings to
Tandem Axle (Tandems)
LTL
A.C.E. Automated Commerical Environment
Single axle tractor
10. A load of freight which permits a trucker to return to his home with a loaded truck -rather than an empty one.
Step deck trailer
Backhaul
Customs Broker
Reefer Van
11. Hauls any type of liquids -separate trailers are used for edible and non edible shipments.
Pup Trailer
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
Tanker Trailer
5 Ton / Straight Truck
12. This trailer steps down after the tractor to get shipments lower to ground and not exceed height restrictions.
GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight)
Step deck trailer
LTL
Tanker Trailer
13. How most shipments from other countries arrive.
Customs Broker
Tanker Trailer
Fixed Tandem
Container Ship
14. Interior volume of a truck body -semitrailer or trailer -measured in cubic feet.
Cube (Cubic Capacity)
Freight Broker
Reefer Van
Tandem Axle (Tandems)
15. Operating a truck without cargo.
Bill of Lading
Hours-Of-Service
'TEAM' Driving
Dead-Heading
16. Hazardous materials -as classified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Transport of hazardous materials is strictly regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Conventional Truck [Tractor]
Bill of Lading
Hazmat
TL
17. Common practice in the less-than-truckload industry -in which one driver takes a truck for 8 to 10 hours -then turns the truck over to another driver -pony express style.
18. Standard-sized rectangular box used to transport freight by ship -rail and highway. International shipping containers are 20 or 40 feet long -conform to International Standards Organization (ISO) standards and are designed to fit in ships' holds. Con
Pup Trailer
Container (Shipping Container)
Tailgate or Liftgate
JIT (Just-In-Time)
19. What the shipper needs to provides customs if crossing the border.
GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight)
Commercial Invoice
Pallet Jack
Pup Trailer
20. Assembly of two axles and suspension that is attached to the chassis in one place -and cannot be moved fore and aft. (see Sliding Tandem)
Tri-Axle
Hours-Of-Service
Cube (Cubic Capacity)
Fixed Tandem
21. U.S. Department of Transportation safety regulations which govern the hours of service of commercial vehicle drivers engaged in interstate trucking operations.
Container Chassis
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
Freight Broker
Hours-Of-Service
22. Group of three axles on a truck -tractor or trailer. Tridems are most common on European semitrailers.
LTL
Freight Broker
Tri-Axle
Customs Broker
23. The legal document that a shipment travels under.
TL
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
Dead-Heading
Bill of Lading
24. Short for - Less Than Truckload. A quantity of freight less than that required for the application of a truckload (TL) rate; usually less than 10 - 000 pounds.
LTL
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
Freight Broker
Hazmat
25. Standardized unit for measuring container capacity on ships -railcars -etc.
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
Container Ship
Common Carrier
LTL
26. Single-purpose semitrailer designed to carry a shipping container.
Commercial Invoice
Container (Shipping Container)
'TEAM' Driving
Container Chassis
27. Total weight of a vehicle and everything aboard -including its load.
GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight)
Freight Broker
LTL Carrier
Bill of Lading
28. Notice this short dry van has a tailgate or liftgate to take shipments from the trailer to ground level.
Bill of Lading
Tailgate or Liftgate
LTL Carrier
Hours-Of-Service
29. Provides local (within a town -city or municipality) pick-up and delivery.
'TEAM' Driving
Tailgate or Liftgate
Cartage Company
TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit)
30. Mostly used in the transport of non perishable goods -interior width is usually 100'' inches wide inside -110'' inches tall and 52'7 feet long -commonly referred to as 53 foot dry vans. Notice no motor on the fronts of these trailers.
A.C.E. Automated Commerical Environment
Logbook
Dry Van
Tri-Axle
31. Short semitrailer -usually between 26 and 32 feet long -with a single axle.
Pup Trailer
Customs Broker
Fixed Tandem
Cube (Cubic Capacity)
32. Book carried by truck drivers in which they record their hours of service and duty status for each 24-hour period. Required in interstate commercial trucking by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Common Carrier
TL
Backhaul
Logbook
33. Used for mostly in town work to make sharper turns -this one is hauling a 53 foot dry van.
Single axle tractor
Step deck trailer
Common Carrier
P&D
34. Trucking company which consolidates less-than-truckload cargo for multiple destinations on one vehicle.
LTL Carrier
Dry Van
JIT (Just-In-Time)
Pup Trailer
35. Trucking company which dedicates trailers to a single shipper's cargo -as opposed to an LTL (Less Than Truckload) carrier which transports the consolidated cargo of several shippers and makes multiple deliveries.
Tanker Trailer
TL
Tailgate or Liftgate
Container (Shipping Container)
36. Usually has a motor on the front to control the temperature of the goods it carries. It can heat -cool or freeze products.
Hours-Of-Service
Reefer Van
Pallet Jack
'TEAM' Driving
37. Used to lift pallets
'TEAM' Driving
Commercial Invoice
5 Ton / Straight Truck
Pallet Jack
38. The business-to-business interconnection of computers for the rapid exchange of a wide variety of documents -from bills of lading to build tickets at auto plants.
Logbook
Container Chassis
Step deck trailer
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
39. Truck designed primarily to pull a semitrailer by means of a fifth wheel mounted over the rear axle(s). Sometimes called a truck tractor or highway tractor to differentiate from it from a farm tractor.
Commercial Invoice
Step deck trailer
Container Ship
Conventional Truck [Tractor]