07-23-2009, 01:12 PM
Dustie Wrote:Vllad, what are bill counts? Is it just a raw count in units?
When you call me to move freight I come into your location and pick up 3 different shipments.
They are all broken up by destination. 1 pallets going from Dustie to Chicago, 2 pallets going from Dustie to Los Angeles, 5 pallets going from Dustie to Atlanta.
I invoice you based upon each destination. In this case you would receive 3 "bills" from me. They each move on 3 different bills of lading.
In a nut shell a carriers bill count is how many transactions he processes. The more bills you do the more frieght you move.
Disclaimer:
This really doesn't represent volume or cube so bill count is generally how you measure revenue to transaction count. So while you might do only 19k bills (shipments) this year vs. 20k last year if the average cube goes up you could end up utilizing the same amount of space because customers average cube per shipment went up. Since cube and weight are generally how you bill even though you do less transactions you could still make more or less the same amount of money.
In todays world since the US is no longer really manufacturing things so average cube and weight haven't changed much in the last 10 years.
Vllad