Road Haulage Services - Areas and Aspects Involved

The road haulage industry is an essential and vital part of any transportation system of a country. It is important in both developed and developing markets. It is important to manage even at places where the market is mature and there is little real growth potential.

The industry mainly comprises of three main sectors including

* The own-account distribution

* Contract distribution

* Shared-user distribution

Contract distribution and shared-user distribution together are known as public haulage or hire and reward haulage. Contract distribution companies are mostly involved in the broader area of supply chain management and logistics management.

The services that are provided on the road by the road wheeled vehicles. These services are sold from companies to companies. The word haulage refers to the charges made for transporting goods on carts or trucks and is nothing but the business of transporting goods from one place to other.

Different types of services include: road, local, overseas, refrigerated, group age, national, international, express, backloads and European haulage.

Normally these services are used for transporting iron ore, coal, supplies, and waste material. Road haulage service also amounts to carrying agricultural equipment, international, tankers, temperature controlled transport, tipping and constructing, warehousing and distribution. The cost incurred in loading such raw material into the machines at the mine site and then transporting the same to the processing site is called as service cost.

The main tasks include:

* Warehousing: Providing enough space for storage of freight and goods

* Distribution: Ensuring proper distribution of goods to the proper customers

* Transportation: Proper handling of freight to ensure minimal losses during transit and faster delivery

These provide different services and normally specialize in different areas like some of them are specializing in abnormal loads, crane vehicles, heavy and time critical assignments. Some of them also provide full and part load options.

Also these include providing specific services for the chilled and frozen food markets. Many companies simply concentrate in the area of general food, retail goods and automotive product markets.

Brought to you from Paul Black @ Freight 2 Transport - Road Haulage Services