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Manifest
A grouping of shipment legs being picked up from a single shipping point and being sent to one or more locations using a single carrier. Used in conjunction with an LTL or Parcel service. Typically, shipments will be picked up and taken to the carrier's terminal where they will be sorted by destination city/region. Rating and scheduling will be performed for each shipment leg individually.
Manifest Group Code
An attribute assigned to each service on a tariff. Shipment legs can only be consolidated onto a manifest if the services assigned to the individual shipment legs have the same manifest group code. Manifest group code can be used to force shipment legs for different services on the same tariff to be collected onto different manifests.
Marked for ID
The location as specified as being the final recipient of the contents of a specific container on a shipment. In some cases, the destination for the Transportation Manager shipment may not be the final delivery point for the goods.
Master Bill of Lading
A document summarizing the contents of a load. The Master Bill of Lading presents load details by stop and then summarizes certain values for the entire load. Compare to Carrier Bill of Lading (Carrier BOL).
Master Bill of Lading Number
A carrier tracking number assigned to a load.
Master BOL
Master BOL Number
See Master Bill of Lading Number.
Master Condition
A superset of all the conditions your carriers offer and of all the conditions you offer to your customers.
Master Option
A superset of all the options your carriers offer and of all the options you offer to your customers.
Master Service
A superset of all the services your carriers offer and of all the services you offer to your customers.
Metric Ton-Kilometer
Metric equivalent of Ton-Mile.
Minimum Charge
A charge that is applied when it is greater than the result of extending the rating units by the per-unit charges or percentages and adding any applicable base charges.
Minimum Lead Time
The minimum amount of time required to arrange an initial pickup for a multi-stop load. A minimum lead time is associated with each shipping location. In addition, one is defined at the system level.
Miscellaneous Voucher
A freight voucher for which there is no corresponding freight transaction being provided by a carrier or for a customer. Miscellaneous vouchers can be used to record charges that might be incurred when no goods were available for pickup for a standing appointment with a carrier.
Modal Window (or Modal Dialogue)
A modal window is a secondary window that requires users to interact with it before they can return to operating the primary page of an application.
Module
Modules represent logical groupings of functionality. Modules are accessed using the highest level nodes in the navigation frame.
Movement
Any kind of freight transaction. A movement can refer to an entire load or to a shipment leg on either a load or a manifest.
Multiclass
Tariff rates that incorporate different freight classes. Compare with Freight All Kinds (FAK).
Multi-Stop Load
A load that makes more than one pickup and/or more than one drop.
Match Pay
The process of matching charges received on freight bills from carriers to existing freight vouchers. Match pay is a subset of the activities that can be performed using the freight bill entry and matching function.
Matched Audit
See Audit Match.
Maximum Charge
A charge that is applied when it is lower than the result of extending the rating units by the per-unit charges or percentages and adding any applicable base charges.