What is Intermodal
Transportation?
Intermodal transportation
is a seamless coordinated movement of goods placed
in a container or trailer and transported by a
combination of at least two of the following modes:
truck, rail, barge and steamship and in some cases
air.
LA Intermodal
is primarily concerned with the over-the-road
portion of the intermodal process. This is referred
to as drayage. Drivers are dispatched to a rail
yard, harbor or other location where a container
or trailer is waiting. The container or trailer
is connected to the truck and the driver delivers
it to a location where it is either unloaded,
removed from the truck and left in the possession
of those at the final destination or is released
to another transport company to continue its journey.
The purpose
of intermodal transportation is to simplify the
process a shipper must go through to get cargo
from one location to another in the most efficient,
timely and cost effective manner.
What
is Drayage?
The word drayage is derived
form the word dray which is an old 14th century
word for a vehicle without wheels used to pull
something. Later, dray came to represent a cart
or wagon without sides.
Today, dray is used to represent
the pulling of cargo in a container or trailer by a truck. Within
the context of Intermodal transportation, drayage is the cost
associated with over-the-road movement of cargo, the primary business
of LA Intermodal.
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