Road freight. Did you ever heard before? First of all thanks to our lecturer for his introducing us about transportation section. Road freight is the transport of passengers or goods on roads. For this post we would like to share to all of you about the characteristics of road freight in management of transportation. As we know, there are many types of transport on road can be roughly grouped into the transportation of goods and people such as truck, haulier, and others.
But for the types of road transportation service, the first major division of road transports is between for-hire and private carriers. The for-hire carrier provides services to the public and charges a fee for the service. The private carrier provides a service to the industry or company that owns or leases the vehicles, and thus does not charge a fee, but obviously the service provider incurs cost.
A modal road freight characteristics with respect to speed, accessibility , dependability and capability which is speed refers to elapsed movement time. Dependability refers to potential variance from expected or published delivery scheduled. Capability is the ability of a mode to handle any transport requirement such load size while frequency relates to the quantity of scheduled.
Next the characteristics that we found is speed. It can use alternative ways to reach their destination as soon as possible. Lastly road freight also accessibility to evident in the pick up or delivery of freight in urban area. It is very rare to find urban areas not serve by pick up delivery network. In fact, motor carrier provides the bridge between the pick up and delivery point and facilities of the other modes.
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