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Impracticable operation is a legal term describing when conditions make it physically impossible for the carrier to perform pickup or delivery with its normally assigned road-haul truck through no fault of their own and another loading or unloading solution must be found. Typical examples of Impracticable operations are: road construction, weight limits on bridges, height […]

There are three stages of any shipment’s interstate transportation; at origin, at destination; and “in-transit”. In-transit can be further broken down into “on-board” (still loaded on the truck) or in temporary storage (SIT; storage in-transit).

Intermodal shipping signifies the use of more than one method or mode of transportation. For example, a small shipment traveling cross county may be packed and prepared by Arpin of RI and shipped in a plywood liftvan container on a freight truck rather than on a traditional furniture van. That freight truck may then be

A survey is the actual or virtual viewing of all of the shipment items and moving locations to determine moving costs. There are basically three types of surveys that Liberty Moving and Storage uses to determine the shipment weight and all of the moving services that may be required to complete the job. These three

An individual shipper is the person who is the consignor or consignee of a shipment. The consignor is the person who gives custody of the shipment (consigns) to the moving company at origin. The consignee is the person who receives and signs for the shipment at the destination. The consignee and the consignor may be

An interline is a legal agreement, called a 409 agreement, between different household goods carriers to transport each other’s shipments. Typically, this arises when each carrier has a partial load destined for the same city and it doesn’t make economic sense to run two partially full trucks instead of one full van. Commercial airlines developed

An interstate move is one where the origin and destination residences are located in different states. In situations where the customer may live near the state line, an interstate move would generally have to exceed 50 miles to qualify. Interstate moves are not regulated by the State, but rather by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety

An intrastate move is one where the origin and destination residences are located within the same state. These intrastate moves are also referred to as local moves. Intrastate moves are regulated by the origin State, not the Federal government (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration).

The inventory is technically called the Household Goods Descriptive Inventory. It has several uses on an interstate move. First and foremost, it is the official manifest listing the quantity and type of items included in the shipment. Second, it documents the condition of the items when they were tendered to the carrier, that is, what

Inherent vice is a legal term describing when the very nature of an item, its material or method of construction, excludes it from valuation coverage. Examples of items that are excluded from valuation coverage may include snap together furniture, some shelving, some glass items, some antiques, and most items which cannot be assembled more than