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S
Safety stock - A reserve inventory
Shipper - The firm or individual who ships goods to a consignee.
Shrinkage - Losses in transit or inventory that are difficult to account for.
Sleeper team - The use of two drivers to operate a truck equipped with a sleeper berth; while one drive sleeps in the berth to accumulate the mandatory off-duty time, the other drive drives.
Slipsheet - Thick sheet of cardboard placed under a unit load, instead of a conventional pallet.
Staging - Accumulating or assembling goods before sending them.
Surcharge - An add-on the applicable charges; motor carriers have a fuel surcharge and railroad can apply a surcharge to any joint rate that does not yield 110 percent of variable cost.
Stockout - Occurs when one loses a sale because of being out of stock.
T
Tare weight - The weight of an empty vehicle or container.
Tariff - A book containing carrier charges, also, charges assessed on imports.
Terminal - A carrier or public facility where freight or passengers are transferred between carriers or modes.
TEU - Twenty-foot container equivalent; a measure of oceangoing cargo.
TL - Truckload, a shipment weight the minimum weight or more. A rate reduction is given a TL size shipment.
TOFC - Trailer-on-flatcar; also know as piggyback.
Ton - In the United States, usually the short ton (2,000 pounds).
Toto authority - The authority of a private carrier to act as a common or contract carrier.
Tracing - A carrier’s attempt to find a delayed or lost shipment.
Transit time - The total time that elapses form pickup to delivery of a shipment.
V
Variable costs - Those costs that change directly with the volume of output.
W
Warehouse - A structure used to store inventory or other property.
Weigh out - To load dense freight; to reach a vehicle’s weight limits without fililng its empty space.
