Glossary
Transportation Supervisor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential transportation supervisor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key transportation supervisor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in transportation supervisor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Cross-dock
- Moving goods without storage.
- CSA score
- Carrier safety score.
- Defensive driving
- Anticipating hazards.
- Detention
- Truck waiting time.
- Dispatch
- Assigns trips.
- Dock schedule
- Truck appointment plan.
- DOT
- Department of Transportation.
- Driver qualification file
- Required driver records.
- ELD
- Electronic logging device.
- Hours of service
- Limits on driving time.
- Load
- Shipment.
- Pre-trip inspection
- Vehicle check before driving.
- Route
- Planned path.
- UPH
- Units per hour.
- Yard
- Trailer parking area.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Transportation Supervisor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Transportation Supervisor training.
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