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A plaque found in RTS made after the 1980s, featuring the TMC logo and the acronym "RTS" A 1994 TMC RTS bus still in service in 2016 for Lewis & Clark College, in Portland, Oregon. Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (TMC) was a bus manufacturer based in Roswell, New Mexico.
Transportation Materiel Command, a unit of the United States Army until 1962; Trapeziometacarpal joint, a joint in the thumb; Tmcft (TMC, tmc) (thousand million cubic feet), a volume measurement of water; Run TMC, a high-scoring trio of teammates in the National Basketball Association from 1989 to 1991
R+L Carriers is a privately owned American freightshipping company based in Wilmington, Ohio, which grew over the course of 50 years from one truck to a fleet of 21,000 tractors and trailers. [1] The company serves all 48 contiguous American states plus Canada , Puerto Rico , the U.S. Virgin Islands , and the Dominican Republic .
A freight terminal is a processing node for freight. They may include airports , seaports , container ports , goods stations , railroad terminals and trucking terminals . As most freight terminals are located at ports, many cargo containers can be seen around the area.
Trucking is frequently used to connect the "linehaul" ocean and rail segments of a global intermodal freight movement. This specialized trucking that runs between ocean ports, rail terminals, and inland shipping docks, is often called drayage, and is typically provided by dedicated drayage companies or by the railroads. [16]
A common property-carrying commercial vehicle in the United States is the tractor-trailer, also known as an "18-wheeler" or "semi".. The trucking industry serves the American economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, works in process, and finished goods over land—typically from manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.
A Terminal Operating System, or TOS, is a key part of a supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of various types of cargo in and around a port or marine terminal. The systems also enables better use of assets, labour and equipment, plan workload, and receive up-to-date information.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry in the United States. The primary mission of the FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.