ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCE MARKS - ITEM 125

 

ABBREVIATIONS, UNIFORM EXPLANATION OF

 

PART 1--GENERAL APPLICATION

 

ABBREVIATION   EXPLANATION

AFB                          Air Force Base

a/k/a (aka)                Also known as

AQ                            Any Quantity.

ATA                          American Trucking Associations, Inc.

Auth.                         Authority

C                               Denotes hundred pounds

CDA                          Canada

c/o                             Care of.

COD                         Collect on Delivery

Col.                           Column

CR                            Certificate of Registration

Conc.                         Concluded

Cont.                         Continued

Cwt.                           Per 100 pounds

Cy.                            County

d/b/a (dba)                 Doing business as

Dkt.                           Docket

DOT                          Department of Transportation

E.                               East

HGB or HGBC        Household Goods Carriers Bureau

Hwy                           Highway

Jct.                            Junction

KD                            Knocked down

KDF                          Knocked down flat

L.I. (LI)                     Long Island

LTL                           Less than truckload

M                              Denotes thousand pounds

MC                           Minimum Charge

M.C.C (MCC)          Motor Common Carrier

MF                            Motor Freight

Min                           Minimum

MT or Mt                 Mount

MW                          Volume Minimum Weight in pounds, except as otherwise provided

MX                           Mexico

N.                              North

NMF (NMFC)         National Motor Freight Classification

NMFTA (NMF)       National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.

No.                            Number

Nos.                          Numbers

NOI                           Not otherwise more specifically described in NMFC

Oz                              Ounce

P/A                            Power of Attorney issued to SMC

Par.                           Parish

PCF                           Per Cubic Foot

S.                               South

Sec.                           Section

S.I (SI)                      Staten Island

SMC                         Southern Motor Carriers

SPLC                        Standard Point Location Code No.

S.T.A.                        Special Tariff Authority

STB                           Surface Transportation Board

SU                             Set-Up

Sup.                           Supplement

Thru                          Through

TL                             Truckload

Viz.                            Namely

VMW                        Volume Minimum Weight in pounds, except as otherwise provided.

VOL                          Volume

Vol min wt                 Volume minimum weight

W.                             West

Wt                             Weight

 

PART 2--EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS

 

CLASSIFICATION ITEMS

1. The provisions of this PART is an explanation of the use of NMFC Item Number in connection with an article or commodity described in this tariff, or in tariffs governed by this tariff.

2. A number preceded by “N” in parentheses following a description of an article indicates the item number in which the article is described in NMFC.

3. The provisions herein are shown FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES, ONLY, and such rates or provisions are NOT limited to, nor are they inclusive of, articles embraced in the NMFC to which such NMFC Item numbers relate.

4. These numbers, although they do relate to the NMFC item numbers, are not to be considered as part of the description of the article or commodity.

5. EXAMPLE:

(N123456)                  Relates to NMFC Item 123456.

(N123456-02)            Relates to NMFC Item 123456, Sub 2.

(N123456-N124000) Relates to generic group of NMFC item numbers.

(N123456, N123460) Relates to 2 NMFC item numbers specifically named.

(N-VAR.)                   Relates to more than one NMFC item number.