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Capacity

The physical limitations of a piece of equipment. Capacity usually refers to either weight or volume.

Caravanning

A group of vehicles travelling together.

Carrier

The provider of freight services. The carrier is the entity that provides the required equipment and moves shipments on behalf of the shipper or third party logistics provider.

Carrier Bill of Lading (Carrier BOL)

A document given to a carrier to accompany a shipment. The Carrier Bill of Lading lists the contents of a shipment leg and where the shipment leg is being picked up and delivered.

Carrier Invoice

See Freight Bill

Carrier Manifest

A document printed at the end of the day that summarizes all of the shipments picked up by one carrier from a single location.

Carrier Manifest Number

A control number assigned to a carrier manifest. This number must be unique for the carrier. It is usually auto-generated from an internal counter, but it may also be manually assigned.

Carrier Payment Responsibility

Indicates who will be paying for a given freight transaction: either the third party logistics provider or shipper, or the customer. Referred to in Transportation Manager as Freight Terms.

Carrier Report Card

The Carrier Report Card is an evaluation of a carrier’s performance over a period of time. The score can be based on a variety of service factors, including On-Time Pickup, On-Time Delivery, Tender Acceptance Ratio, Ratio of Claims to Transactions Handled and Speed of Claims Resolution. Audit data captured in Transportation Manager can be used to generate a Carrier Report Card.

Carrier Sequential Tendering

A Transportation Manager process that will sequentially issue tenders for a load to carriers based on a rate shop list until the tender is accepted by a carrier or the list of potential carriers is exhausted. This process can be configured so that tenders are automatically cancelled if a response is not received from the carrier within a given amount of time.

Carrier Surcharge Based Rating

An alternative method of issuing invoices to customers for freight services rendered where the customer charge is calculated by marking up carrier charges by a set percentage or dollar amount.

Carrier Tracking Number

A unique reference number assigned by a carrier to track individual freight movements. It can be assigned to every container in a shipment or the same number can be assigned to all the containers for a single shipment. Carrier Tracking Number itself is not a term used in the transportation industry. It can be called different things depending on the method of

shipment. It can also be referred to differently even within segments of a single shipment method. Examples include tracking ID, airbill number, waybill number, probill number, pro-number, and bill of lading number.

Charge

The amount paid for a condition or option within a tariff.

Charge Code

A code that refers to either a condition or an option.

Charged Amount

The total extended amount actually charged. This value can differ from the system calculated amount due to a manual override of the system calculated amount.

Charged Rate

The per-unit rate actually charged. See also Per-Unit Charge.

Check Digit

A system-generated digit that is frequently the last digit of a carrier tracking number. Check digits are used to verify the accuracy of the entire number, revealing if any digits have been incorrectly entered. They are derived from the other digits in the reference number.

Clip

A method of calculating charges where an amount is calculated for the portion of the rating unit greater than the previous range break. This is then added to the full charge associated with the previous range break as defined using the base charge.

CNG

Compressed Natural Gas.

Co-packer

A contract packer (or co-packer) is a company that manufactures and packages foods or other products for their customers. A co-packer works under contract with the hiring company to manufacture products as though they were created directly by the hiring company.

Co-packer

A contract packer (or co-packer) is a company that manufactures and packages foods or other products for their customers. A co-packer works under contract with the hiring company to manufacture products as though they were created directly by the hiring company.

Collect

A freight term value indicating that a party other than the shipper or third party logistics provider will be responsible for payment for the movement of the freight. Also see Prepaid.

Commodity Code

See Shipping Commodity.

Commodity Exclusions

A cross-reference table listing the shipping commodities that cannot be combined when constructing loads.

For example: Frozen goods cannot be combined with heated goods except when a compartmentalized piece of equipment is used.

Compliance, Safety, Accountability

A set of regulations and scoring metrics in effect in the United States. These hold both drivers and companies accountable for the state of both divers and equipment.

Condition

A Transportation Manager term referring to the primary charge types or units a carrier uses to charge for a service. Typical examples would be weight for LTL, miles for TL, and number of pieces for parcel freight. The representative conditions in Transportation Manager would be weight, miles, and pieces.

Consignee

The entity at the final destination of a freight movement.

Consolidated Load

See Load.

Consolidation

The combining of several shipments into a single load or multiple loads.

Constraints Checking

A process performed within manual load planning and by Transportation Planner. It ensures that the delivery schedule does not conflict with such constraints as hours of operation and speed limits.

Container

A single physical entity within a shipment which is used to store items. A container has attributes such as weight, length, width, height, and volume.

Container Tracking

Container Tracking is used by parcel carriers that require individual carrier tracking numbers for each container when multiple containers are being shipped at the same time.

Container Type

An entity that describes a specific type of container. It is associated with a container type group.

Container Type Group

A set of container types. Each customer will use one of the Container Type Groups configured in Transportation Manager.

Continuous Move (Trip)

A combination of two or more consecutive loads handled by one carrier, usually using one piece of equipment.

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

This is the international standard on which civil time is based. UTC is adjusted periodically (by seconds or portions thereof) so that the time stays aligned with the Earth's rotation. From a transportation perspective, UTC is a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). It is aligned with the time in the United Kingdom in the winter months, when Summer Time is not being observed.

Courier

A carrier that provides parcel service.

Crossdock

See Hub.

CSCT

See Customer Specific Carrier Tariff.

CST

See Carrier Sequential Tendering.

Cube

See Volume.

Customer

The entity that initiates the request to the shipper or third party logistics provider to move freight. In inbound scenarios, the customer entity can be used to represent suppliers.

Customer Bill of Lading (Customer BOL)

A document listing the attributes of a single shipment from the customer’s perspective.

Customer Specific Carrier Tariff

Execution Tariffs that can be used only for when the transaction being routed/rated refers to the Customer defined for the Customer Specific Carrier Tariff.

CWT

See Hundredweight (CWT).