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The primary purpose of a pickup allowance is to reduce the miles a shipment must be transported.

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The Jones Company learned that several other shippers located in its hometown had customers located in the same markets it serves.With this information Jones could find it advantage to investigate the potential of:

A) Market Area Consolidation
B) Scheduled Delivery Consolidation
C) Pooled Delivery Consolidation
D) A Phantom Freight Program

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Railroad mileage has declined over the past several decades.

If you want to find freight rates charged by a transportation company to deliver different size shipments between two cities you should check the bill of lading.

The rating reflects the cost of shipment from one location to another.

If you need to find the cost to ship 10,000 pounds from Lansing to Orlando you should look at the:

The main disadvantage of pipelines is that they can only transport liquids.

When the release of railroad equipment is detained by a shipper a detention charge may apply.

The fact that most traditional carriers require a minimum charge helped create the market for package services.

The legislation that determines how many hours a locative operator can work is called Hours of Service (HOS).

If a transportation vehicle has completed a delivery and is returned empty,the situation is called a:

If you want the consignee to be responsible for goods while they are intransit you should ship products:

Since 1995 the use of intermodal transportation has:

The land bridge combines sea and rail transport.

Generally the least costly method of moving product that is not gaseous,liquid,or slurry is:

When shippers provide Advanced Shipment Notification (ASN)their objective is to collect freight bills faster.

The transportation mode having the fastest point to point transit time is truck.

A minimum charge represents the lowest cost per hundred weight a carrier offers.

To facilitate classification of a large variety of different items being shipped on a single invoice a Traffic Manager may want to consider:

As a general rule the greater the density the lower the freight rate.