Road Transport
ADR: It is a standard that includes the rules for the transportation of flammable, explosive and chemical substances via highway. The law on membership to the ADR convention was legalized in the Turkish Grand National Assembly on 30 November 2005. The law was entered into force on 1 January 2009
VMS: Vehicle Monitoring System. It is a system in which vehicles are tracked via satellite using GPS and GPRS technologies.
Warehouse: It is the place where the goods are kept under the supervision and control of the customs administration with the declaration given to the customs administration and allowed to be opened according to the provisions of the law. Toolbox is a tool bag containing hand tools (hammer, screwdriver, etc.) and a flashlight for minor repairs.
Baggage: It is the section in the truck bed that is above the driver’s cabin, where they stack their belongings such as tarpaulin of trucks etc. and allow the height of the load to be easily expressed.
Load Capacity: It is also referred Load Capacity. It means the load limit (maximum load amount) of the vehicle.
Fifth Wheel: It is a part on the chassis of the tractors, which is mounted on the length of the vehicle and designed to lock the connecting element of the semi-trailers, called the king pin, into it securely.
CMR: It is a road transport document. The CMR Certificate is a transport document issued in accordance with the International CMR Agreement for truck transports.
Tow Truck: It is a motor land vehicle with at least two axles used for towing semi-trailers.
Permanent Vehicle: It is a spot vehicle that carries constantly.
Tare: It is the empty weight of the cargo transporter.
Dumper Box: Thanks to its hydraulic equipment specific to trucks, it is a type of casing that can tilt 45 degrees in order to discharge the bulk cargo inside the casing.
Dumper Semi-Trailer: It is a casing system that works with hydraulic equipment to tilt 45 degrees and discharges the load on itself. Unlike trucks, there are also dumper semi-trailers that can wash the material on the right or left.
Storage: It is a place suitable for the storage of nationalized goods in open or closed areas.
Axle: The metal part on which the wheels turn. Those with single tires are referred to as single axles, and those fitted with double wheels are referred to as double axles.
Bulk Cargo: Cargo not in any packaging. For example, coal, iron powder, etc.
FEU: A unit equivalent to 40 feet. It is the unit of measurement used to indicate the capacity of containers. 1 FEU is 40 ft (length) × 8 ft (width) × 9 ft (height) or 12,192 m (height) × 2.44 m (width) × 2.59 m (height) in metric and approximately 67.5 m³ in volume.
Fictive: These are the bonded areas inside the factory.
Refrigerating: It is a road vehicle designed and manufactured for the transport of foodstuffs, drugs and some chemicals sensitive to heat exchange, whose wall thickness and insulation value vary depending on the sensitivity of the material to the heat exchange and which has a cooling unit.
Gauge: These are the measurements that determine the length, width and height of the vehicles in order to ensure safe travel on the road, loaded or unloaded.
Temporary Storage Location: It is the place where the goods are allowed to be stored temporarily by the customs administration until they are subjected to a customs-approved treatment or use after they are presented to the customs.
Intermodal Transportation It is the type of transportation that is carried out by using two or more modes of transportation with the same transportation vehicle or transporter and in which the loads in the vehicle or container are not subjected to any handling during mode changes.
Loading: The loading is the maximum weight of cargo or the number of passengers and servants that a transport or vehicle can safely carry and which is specified in the manufacturing standard.
Jumbo Semi Trailer: It is a semi-trailer with dimensions of 13.60m x 2.45m x 2.65m, a gross volume of 90m3, and two-floor models.
Combined Transportation: It is a type of transportation that is not intermodal but is made by using more than one transportation vehicle (train, truck, etc.) in conjunction with each other.
King Pin: It is a part made of forged steel that connects the semi-trailer tractor with the fifth wheel. It is produced in different sizes in line with the carrying capacity of the semi-trailer.
Commission: The money received from the driver of the vehicle that accepts to take the load, partly to be a side income and partly to prevent the driver from giving up the load.
LOW-BED: It is a semi-trailer that allows the transportation of loads different from the length, height, width and tonnage that normal trucks and yachts can carry, other than the standards according to international and domestic road transport regulations, such as heavy construction machinery or special project loads.
Mega Semi Trailer: They are semi-trailers with the dimensions of 13.60 m x 2.50 m x 3.00 m, and with a volume of 102 m³.
Freight: It is the amount of the shipping cost excluding VAT.
Delivery Order: It is the order given to clear the goods coming from abroad in return for the bill of lading.
Loading Compass / Loading Offer: The document that certifies the agreement of the vehicle that it received the job from the KN Office with the office workers, the commission it has given, and that it has come for loading to the company from which it will take its load.
Partial Distribution: It is the general name of the orders that need to be used by allocating the carrying capacity of the vehicle to more than one customer, or to the customers that need to go to more than one point.
Ring: It is the system of picking up the same or different loads from various points within the framework of a program by a vehicle and delivering them to one or more points and collecting empty containers during deliveries or collecting and returning the empty transporters by following the reverse route after all deliveries are completed.
Salvage: It is the monetary value appraised by the insurance adjuster for the damaged products.
Ratchet Strap: It is the general name of polyester strips that are fixed to the surface on which the load will be carried by passing over the load and used to fix the load by stretching with a tensioning mechanism known as “sweeper”.
Spot Vehicle: It is the general name of the vehicles with which a freelance, one-time transportation agreement is made.
Sousplan: It is a method generally used in land and sea transportation, the situation where the customs clearance of the material is made on the transport vehicle.
Swap Body: Swap body is the name of the containers that are made too thin to be stacked on top of each other and cannot be lifted from the top by the stacker. They are made of very light materials to reduce initial purchase costs and keep fuel costs to a minimum in the long run. Its dimensions are standard ISO container dimensions so that it can be loaded onto other container-carrying vehicles. Thanks to its foldable feet, which are generally located at four corners, it can change the vehicle it is transported without the need for any loading/unloading system.
TIR Carnet: It is the carnet used in the TIR contract system and published by the IRU (International Road Transport Association) and made available to the member countries.
TEU: Unit equivalent to 20 feet. It is the unit of measurement used to indicate the capacity of containers. 1 FEU is 20 ft (length) × 8 ft (width) × 9 ft (height) or 6,10 m (height) × 2.44 m (width) × 2.59 m (height) in metric and approximately 38.5 m³ in volume. A 40′ container is also expressed as 2 TEU. However, 45′ containers are also sized as 2 TEUs. Truck is the initials of the French words Transports Internationaux Routiers. It is an agreement signed in Geneva on 15 January 1959 by the International Transport Union (IRU) within the United Nations Organization. This agreement is a contract between 11 countries (Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, France, Malta, Switzerland, Tunisia and Yugoslavia) allowing combined transport (road, rail, air, waterways) and the use of containers (1994).
Transit Transportation It refers to the transport of passengers or goods, which starts in any country and ends in another country after passing through the territory of at least one country, and covers the transports made through countries other than the countries of origin and termination. It is the creation of an integrated transportation system in which transportation is carried out economically and technically effectively and quickly, with fleets that are safer and comply with environmental standards, including the social dimensions of international transportation.
UBAK: It is an international organization that was founded in 1953 by 17 countries, including Turkey as the founding country, and today has approximately 50 member countries. The activities in our country are carried out by the Ministry of Transport, and laws, regulations and practices related to standardization are carried out by this institution.