cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Route Determination

Former Member
0 Kudos

hi,

Can anyone explain me briefly about "Preliminary Leg" and "Subsequent Leg" while carrying out ROUTE DETERMINATION.

Rgds,

Rajashekar

Accepted Solutions (0)

Answers (3)

Answers (3)

Former Member
0 Kudos

Stage actually refers to the information about the geographical factors of a shipment. Any shipment can have 3 types of stages - Legs, Load Transfer Point and Border Crossing Point.

A shipment can have any one or all 3 or any combination of the stages.

Leg - Refers to the Starting point and Ending point of a shipment. Could also include any intermediate points (Destinations)

For eg. : Assume there are two deliveries (D1 and D2) in a shipment.

D1 : From A - B

D2 : From C - D

Now the legs will typically be

A - B (D1 is assigned)

B - C (Empty leg - No deliveries)

C - D (D2 is assigned)

There are different types of legs available

1. Direct leg

2. Preliminary Leg

3. Main Leg

4. Subsequent Leg

5. Return Leg

In the example above, all legs are "Direct Legs".

If a shipment goes from Bangalore to Palo Alto Via Mumbai and San Fransisco then

Bangalore - Mumbai (Via Road / Rail) - Preliminary Leg

Mumbai - SFO (Via Sea / Air) - Main Leg

SFO - Palo Alto (Via Road) - Subsequent Leg

Off the above 3 legs, Mumbai could be a Load Transfer Point (The point where a shipment is unloaded from one MOT and loaded onto another).

jiteshmehta
Active Contributor
0 Kudos

Example of a transportation chain:

The computer manufacturer ships deliveries from Dresden and Hamburg to Boston and

Philadelphia:

The deliveries from Dresden and Hamburg are shipped separately by truck or rail to Rotterdam:

Leg indicator 1 = Preliminary leg

In Rotterdam, the deliveries are loaded together and shipped to New York:

Leg indicator 2 = Main leg

In New York, the deliveries are again shipped separately by truck to Boston and by rail to Philadelphia:

Leg indicator 3 = Subsequent leg

I hope this example helps

Regards

Jitesh

Former Member
0 Kudos