Ch 12, 13
19. Inland waterways in the United States are dredged to a depth of ____ feet, which tends to be the minimum depth required for most barges.
c. nine
24. What is the time limitation within which a freight claim must be filed?
c. nine months from delivery date
28. Firms that specialize in carrying packages that weigh up to 150 pounds are called ____.
c. parcel carriers
15. ____ is the most reliable form of transportation.
c. pipeline
3. ____ signifies the price charged for freight transportation.
c. rate
7. Consignees are ____.
c. receivers of freight
17. With FOB destination, freight prepaid ____.
c. the seller pays the freight charges and owns the goods in transit
27. Small shipments are defined as those that ____.
c. weigh more than 150 pounds but less than 500 pounds
22. An order bill of lading is used ____.
c. when a shipment is started before the buyer is known
9. Which of the following is not likely to move by air transportation?
e. all are likely to move by air
8. Which of the following is not a factor used to determine a product's classification?
e. all of the above are factors used to determine a product's classification
34. Which of the following is not a legal classification of carriers?
e. all of the above are legal classifications
28. Which of the following statements is false?
e. all of the above are true
18. Which of the following tends to be the most important factor in carrier selection?
e. none of the above
6. A(n) ____ rate refers to a specific rate for every possible combination of product, weight, and distance.
c. commodity
2. There are ____ modes of transportation.
c. five
33. Common carriers of transportation have ____ obligations.
c. four
11. Truckload carriers focus on shipments of greater than ____ pounds.
a. 10,000
16. Which of the following is not a possible payment option (terms of sale) for U.S. domestic shipments?
a. FOB origin, freight collect and charged back
32. With respect to U.S. economic regulation, the ____ has primary responsibility for resolving railroad rate and service disputes, reviewing potential rail mergers, and some jurisdiction over motor carriers, domestic water transportation, and pipelines.
a. Surface Transportation Board
23. An invoice submitted by the carrier requesting to be paid is ____.
a. a freight bill
7. A(n) ____ rate simplifies each of the three primary rate factors—product, weight, and distance.
a. class
8. Dimensional weight ____.
a. considers a shipment's density
30. Which of the following statements is false?
a. detention is similar to demurrage, except that detention applies to pipelines
35. ____ refers to rapidly moving a shipment through a carrier's system.
a. expediting
14. In the class rate system, freight rates are expressed in dollars or cents per ____.
a. hundredweight
22. ____ transportation occurs when two or more modes work closely together in an attempt to utilize the advantages of each mode while at the same time minimizing their disadvantages.
a. intermodal
3. A 3,047 meter (10,000 foot) runway is significant because it ____.
a. is generally viewed as adequate for accommodating the largest existing wide-body aircraft
27. A transportation broker _____.
a. looks to match a shipper's freight with a carrier to transport it
17. ____ have a level of market concentration and dominance that is not found in the other modes.
a. railroads
18. Which mode is not the "best" or "worst" on any of the six attributes (e.g., capability, flexibility, etc.) that were used to compare the modes?
a. railroads
1. ____ refers to the buying and controlling of transportation services by either a shipper or consignee.
a. transportation management
30. In the United States, commercial airline pilots must retire at age ____.
b. 65
12. Liability for loss and damage is one factor used to determine a product's freight classification. Which of the following is not a loss and damage consideration?
b. ability to load freight on top of a commodity
6. ____ is generally the fastest form of transportation for shipments exceeding 600 miles.
b. air
20. The most important single transportation document is the ____.
b. bill of lading
4. Which of the following is not one of the three primary factors that transportation rates are based upon?
b. density
26. Shippers' associations ____.
b. function in a manner similar to freight forwarders
20. A ____ raises or lowers barges so that they can meet the river's level as they move upstream or downstream.
b. lock
13. With respect to a commodity's freight classification, shippers tend to prefer a ____ classification number and carriers tend to prefer a ____ classification number.
b. lower, higher
10. Less-than-truckload motor carriers ____.
b. operate through a series of terminals
24. The primary advantage to land bridge service is ____.
b. reduced transit times
33. A ____ provides a variety of shipment information such as shipment preparation, freight invoicing, a list of preferred carriers, and a list of which carrier or carriers to use for shipments moving between two points.
b. routing guide
11. ____ refers to how easy a commodity is to pack into a load.
b. stowability
21. Each of the following is true, except ____.
b. the bill of lading adds to the complexity of the transportation manager's job
1. ____ is the actual, physical movement of goods and people between two points.
b. transportation
5. Weight times rate equals ____.
b. transportation cost
35. Private transportation is most prevalent in the ____ industry.
b. trucking
16. ____ pipelines carry crude oil from gathering-line concentration points to the oil refineries.
b. trunk
29. Demurrage charges are collected by railroads, ____, and ____.
b. water carriers, pipelines
23. What container size is often used to rank water ports and measure containership capacity?
c. 20 foot container
31. U.S. freight railroads currently allow ____ hours of free time for unloading railcars and ____hours of free time for loading railcars.
c. 48, 24
9. The National Motor Freight Classification currently has 18 separate ratings, or classes, that range for Class 50 to Class ____
c. 500
29. What is the largest transportation company (by revenues) in the United States?
c. United Parcel Service
12. Each of the following is true, except ____.
c. a truckload shipment involves only one customer
31. The U.S. ____ is the federal government body with primary responsibility for transportation safety regulation.
d. Department of Transportation
19. A(n) ____ refers to a transportation manager who purchases a prespecified level of transportation service and is indifferent to the mode and carrier used to provide the transportation service.
d. amodal shipper
25. Freight forwarders ____.
d. consolidate the shipments of several shippers
10. ____ refers to how heavy a product is in relation to its size.
d. density
14. The primary advantage for motor carriers is ____.
d. flexibility
21. The predominant commodity moved by barge transportation is ____.
d. petroleum
5. In the United States, ____ account for the largest share of ton-miles and ____ account for the majority of freight revenues.
d. railroads; truck
32. ____ can be defined as the process of determining how a shipment will be moved between origin and destination.
d. routing
13. Hours-of-service (HOS) rules and speed limits have long been justified in the motor carrier industry on the basis of ____.
d. safety concerns
25. Which of the following is false?
d. shippers or carriers are entitled to a product's full retail value when filing a freight claim
15. Suppose that a particular item is Class 200 according to the National Motor Freight Classification. What is the relationship between this item's rate and the rate for an item in Class 100?
d. the class 200 rate is higher than the class 100 rate
4. Rail gauge refers to ____.
d. the distance between the inner sides of two parallel rail tracks
26. If a product destroyed or damaged in transit is intended to be placed into general replacement inventory, then the retailer would likely receive ____.
d. the wholesale price, plus freight if previously paid
34. ____ refers to determining a shipment's location during the course of its move.
d. tracking
2. In general terms, ____ accounts for about 6% of U.S. gross domestic product.
d. transportation
