Glossary of terms

Loading un-manifested freight onto trailers.

The time it takes, in days, for the Interliner to travel to the terminal.

Generally refers to the entire TruckMate set of modules and programs as a whole. Sometimes used interchangeably with the term program.

Service that co-ordinates the ConnectedDock application, processes freight movement commands, and moves data between TruckMate and the handheld device.

Loading multiple freight bills at once.

Area directly in front of a terminal door where freight is staged just before loading.

The time it takes, in days, for the Interliner to travel from the terminal.

A terminal used by large common carriers, designed to act as an intermediate sorting point for interregional freight. Freight from various end-of-line terminals is sent to a regional break bulk terminal to be combined into full trailers that the carrier then routes to subsequent end-of-line terminals.

A transporter of goods from one destination to another. All commercial transport businesses can be considered carriers.

COD in the TruckMate system refers specifically to Cash On Delivery charges for product carried. This is meant as a way to track cash received by the driver from the consignee for product delivered so that it can be paid to the shipper.

A product that is bought and sold. Within TruckMate it is the product being transported and may have certain characteristics defined such as temperature controlled or dangerous goods.

A code that represents a collection of related commodity types.

A customer code that represents the load destination or party to whom freight is being shipped.

Reusable metal box that can be detached from the chassis for loading into a vessel or a rail car or stacked at a depot.

Transfer of freight items from inbound to outbound shipments with no long-term storage in-between shipments.

Mini-container that courier freight is loaded into prior to being loaded onto a trailer.

A code and related record that represents a business you provide services to. Customer Codes are defined in Customer / Vendor Profiles.

Area on the terminal floor where freight is staged or temporarily stored.

Terminal opening where the trailer is parked for loading and/or unloading.

Menu of options that appears when you tap a field on a screen. Options remain hidden until being selected (tapped).

(Electronic Data Interchange) Computer-to-computer data transfer between companies for the purpose of generating purchase orders and invoices.

Goods transported on a trip.

Document issued by the carrier providing shipment details (e.g., shipper, consignee or item details). A freight bill may contain one item; multiple items; or, in the case of skeleton manifests, no items.

Location latitude/longitude co-ordinates

Any of the supported Android devices.

Lowest unit of trackable freight based on how barcodes are applied (e.g., one pallet consisting of several boxes/items may be shrink-wrapped together and have one barcode representing it as a whole).

An outstide Carrier. When a carrier contracts to a second carrier to move a load on their behalf, the secondary carrier is considered an Interliner. This can be for the complete trip or portions of it including Advance, Bridge and Beyond legs.

A Junction Terminal is a facility where trailered loads are exchanged between trucks and/or separate carriers.

Put freight items onto a trailer.

Less than Truck Load

List of all freight items being moved on a trip.

QWERTY keyboard that displays on the screen, allowing you to enter uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers and special characters.

(Overage/Shortage/Damage) Freight that is either in excess of (overage) or less than (shortage) that identified on the freight bill, or freight that arrived damaged.

A Poll Zone indicates the position of the mobile device, (usually) reported in latitude / longitude co-ordinates to the mobile communications network and converted to a TruckMate zone by the Mobile Communications Manager.

Piece of equipment containing an engine that can move trailers.

An interline vendor bill in the operations and billing system. The probill is converted to an AP invoice by the Interline Payables Register program.

A rate sheet is a single record which holds a collection of factors used to calculate charges on a Freight Bill load detail.

The auto-rating system has the ability to calculate charges on freight bill details based on rates set on a zone to zone basis (also known as point to point rating). The concept of a rating zone exists to allow you the ability to have the auto-rating system rate one zone as another. Example: Oakland, CA is assigned a rating zone of San Francisco, CA. Any bills with a pick-up zone of Oakland will now be rated as if they were picked up in San Francisco.

See Handheld (device)

A service level is a code assigned to each freight bill in TruckMate that links the bill to a number of factors that can affect how the bill is to be rated, how delivery times are calculated, and how the bill is to be processed by your operations. Service level codes are defined in the Codes Maintenance program.

The service level matrix is the set of factors used to calculate the time commitment required for you to move a customer’s load from point A to point B, including Advance and Beyond trips.

A customer code that represents the load origin and the party responsible for moving the freight.

Structured Query Language

Touch an item on the screen with your finger and then lift your finger.

Touch the screen for a second or two before lifting your finger.

Area designated for processing freight.

Designating a zone code as a terminal indicates this zone is specific to a terminal. This allows TruckMate to differentiate between freight being picked up or delivered to an area versus freight being picked up or delivered to a terminal that services an area.

Platform or box with wheels that is pulled behind a power unit and used to transport freight.

Planned movement of freight from departure point to destination point. A trip may have equipment assigned to it and be assigned to a door.

A trip resource is one or more of the following elements that can be attached to an operations trip: Freight Bill, Driver, Power Unit, Trailer, Chassis, Container, Miscellaneous Equipment, and/or(interline vendor) Carrier.

Trips represent the movement of freight and/or equipment. Trips can be organized into multiple legs with each leg representing a stop on a trip.

A zone code is a single record that can represent a specific geographical point or it can represent a specific geographical area that includes multiple zones.