For forwarders and transport companies: how to run freight orders from request to payment, work with carriers and drivers, keep trip documents together and know the margin of every order before the month is over.
Chargeable weight is the weight a carrier bills you for: the greater of the shipment's actual gross weight and its volumetric weight. Volumetric weight turns the space a shipment takes into kilograms using a conversion factor from the carrier's tariff, so light but bulky goods are charged by volume and heavy, dense goods by their real weight.
Agree a loss norm, a valuation price and a right of set-off in the carrier contract; weigh the cargo at loading and unloading; calculate only the shortage above the norm; send the carrier the claim with evidence; then deduct the agreed amount as a separate minus line in the final payment and pay the rest on time instead of holding the whole invoice.
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