CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROAD FREIGHT

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Assalamualaikum and Salam Sejahtera to all readers of our blog which is "Logistical Supremacy" that creates and gives to you the information that we have know and also gives our opinion about the topic that our lecturer ask us to discuss it. As a topic of our post today is about the characteristics of the road freight.

There are 5 modes of transportation in Malaysia. There are Road transportation, Rail transportation, Air transportation, Sea transportation and also the Pipeline as we already explain on our first post. So, on this post, we focus more on the characteristics of the road freight or also known as the road transportation.

There are 2 types of road transportation which is private carrier and also the public carrier. Private carrier is focus more on the transportation provide by their own company. Other than that, for the public carrier, there provide the service to any company that do not have their own transportation to transport the good to the point of consumption.

Road transportation or road freight also more focus on their truck. Truck is the common transportation that we use to transport the goods which using the road. There are 2 types of truck which is truckload (TL) and also less-than truckload (LTL).

Road freight provide accessibility. This is mean that the truck can access all the road that have provided to reach or to deliver the goods in front of our door. This service we called it as door-to-door service. It may take some delay to transport the goods using this service, but the road freight have their specialization that we actually do not know.

Compared to the Air transportation, road transportation have lower price. This is because, Air transportation only transport the high value of goods such as diamond and other emergency goods. So that, they may charge the high fees for each of their using this transportation. However, the road transportation have high fees compared to the Sea transportation. This is because, the shipment of the goods which consolidate it and transport the low-value goods.

Other than that, truck also fully utilize because of their packaging of every goods. The packaging is the main role of the utilization space. If not fully utilize the space, the shipment of the goods may at the high risk of damage.

In conclusion, the road transportation is the most common use in our country. This is because road transportation can access all the road in Malaysia. Therefore the road transportation have an economic prices.