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• Label, Hazard: a diamond shaped designation that has a unique pictorial symbol that describes each of nine hazard classes.
• Lading: that which constitutes a load. The shipments in a vehicle.
• Legal Holidays: Christmas Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, New Years Day, Presidents Day, Thanksgiving Day.
• LTL (Less-than-Truckload): a quantity of shipment less than that required for the application of truckload rate.
• Lien: a legal claim upon goods for the satisfaction of some debt or duty.
• Limited Quantity (LTD QTY): is a hazardous material that due to the quantity of material and type of packaging container may be exempt form labeling requirements, if it is not classified as a 6.1 poison.
• Line haul: the movement of shipments between cities, excluding pickup and delivery service.
• Line haul truck: vehicles used to carry shipments long distances, usually a tractor-trailer combination of three or more axles.
• Loading:
  • Furnishing to Yellow the Bill of Lading, forwarding directions, or other documents necessary for forwarding the shipment.
  • Notification to Yellow that the vehicle is loaded and ready for forwarding.
• Local Delivery: Those points served direct and are within 25 miles of the original destination point.
• Local Reconsignment: is reconsignment within the local (direct) delivering area of the original destination terminal. Local deliveries are those points served direct and are within twenty-five (25) miles of the original destination point.
• Local Terminal: a local facility of a transportation line.
• Log Book: a book carried and kept by truck drivers containing daily records of hours, routes, etc.
• Long Ton: 2,240 pounds.
• Loose: not packed.
• Low Boy: a semi-trailer with no sides and with the floor of the unit close to the ground. Usually used in transporting heavy machinery or large objects.