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  2. Less-than-truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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    The use of an FTL carrier to transport this freight generally provides an overall cost savings because the freight will travel fewer miles in the FTL carrier's network, as well as a reduced overall fuel surcharge cost—that is, one FTL carrier travels the distance to the break-bulk facility for a single carrier's price while using only the ...

  3. Truckload shipping - Wikipedia

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    The three types of truckload shipment are dry van, flatbed, and refrigerated.. Truckload shipments are used for large shipments of freight and typically run on 48 foot or 53 foot dry van trailers which hold 24 or 26 pallets respectively.

  4. Shipping container - Wikipedia

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    A shipping container is a container with strength suitable to withstand shipment, storage, and handling. Shipping containers range from large reusable steel boxes used for intermodal shipments to the ubiquitous corrugated boxes .

  5. Proposed low-cost housing for seniors would employ steel ...

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    Steel shipping containers may become the newest form of low-cost housing for senior residents in Corpus Christi. A trend in recent years that has advanced across the nation, using shipping ...

  6. Containerization - Wikipedia

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    Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or ISO containers). [1] Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading , is the process of unitization of cargoes in exports.

  7. Taking You to the Cleaner: The Hidden Cost of Detergent Pods

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    A recent article in The Wall Street Journal dove into the effect of the pod's arrival three years ago on laundry detergent sales and found that in dollar terms, detergent sales are down 5.1 ...

  8. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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    An intermodal container, often called a shipping container, or cargo container, (or simply “container”) is a large metal crate designed and built for intermodal freight transport, meaning these containers can be used across different modes of transport – such as from ships to trains to trucks – without unloading and reloading their ...

  9. Poplin (company) - Wikipedia

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    Poplin (formerly SudShare) is an American company which allows people to hire independent contractors [1] to wash, dry, fold, and deliver laundry. [2] SudShare was co-founded in 2018 by Mort and Nachshon Fertel in Baltimore, Maryland, and operates through a mobile app of the same name. [3] The service is available in over 400 American cities. [4]