Friday, July 30, 2010

What is Piggyback in Transportation

Piggyback

The goods are packed in trailers and hauled by tractors to the railway station. At the station, the trailers are moved onto railway flat cars and the transport tractors, which stay behind, be then disconnected. At destination, tractors again haul the trailers to the warehouses of the consignee.


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This is a system of unitised multimodal land transportation, a combination of transport by road and rail. It has become popular in Latin American and European countries because it combines the speed and reliability of rail on long hauls with the door-to-door flexibility of road transport for collection and delivery.

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