Night jump
Night jump is a form of freight transport in the forwarding business . It uses the traffic situation, which is often more favorable at night, which is why goods traffic in the main leg of a transport chain does not take place during the day, but rather during the night (between 9 p.m. or 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.).
Rail transport
The term originally comes from Deutsche Bahn . While the passenger trains use the route network during the day, the freight trains are used at night in order to use the network more evenly. One example is the former Post InterCity rail mail service . The night jump is now considered the standard for express delivery , so that a shipment arrives on the following day ( same day delivery ).
Road traffic
A common procedure for truck traffic is:
- the truck ( semitrailer ) drives away loaded from the haulage site (late) in the evening
- the semi-trailer or swap bodies are parked at the first recipient
- there it picks up another loaded trailer or bridge
- these are delivered to another customer.
This can be repeated any number of times and represents the optimal sequence. However, empty trips cannot always be avoided.
Often night jumps are carried out in oncoming traffic. Here, two truck drivers meet at a customer's or on a parking lot to swap their loading units (saddle or bridge) and then continue in different directions.
Book trade
In the book trade , night jump means the nightly delivery of books by the book collection system for bar assortments or from others to the retail trade. The shipping companies usually receive a key for the business premises or an upstream lock and can thus also deliver without the bookseller or his employees having to be present.
advantages
- free traffic routes
- shorter transport times
- thus lower personnel costs
- lower fuel consumption
- fewer parking problems
disadvantage
- additional nocturnal traffic noise from road traffic noise , rail traffic noise and aircraft noise .
Web links
- Klaus Jopp: A night jump saves 150 truck trips a day on February 16, 2001
- Expanding night train traffic as part of modern and climate-friendly mobility - ten-point plan for a European night train network BT-Drs. 18/12560 of May 31, 2017
- Andreas Pietsch: Logistics at night: Continuation of the day with artificial lighting March 28, 2018
- Anna Barbara Brüggmann: Intermodal transport: Lübeck and Nuremberg ports connected at night Transport, September 20, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfried Krieger: Nachtsprung Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon, accessed on December 9, 2019
- ↑ cf. Night jump DB Cargo, glossary
- ↑ Night jump Hermes ABC, accessed on December 9, 2019
- ↑ Transport: Night jump on rails Der Spiegel , February 11, 2008
- ↑ cf. Night jump logistics know-how, November 6, 2013
- ↑ Christopher Schrader: Aircraft noise makes you sick - and rich Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 5, 2012
- ↑ Summer flight plan 2012 without night flights from Frankfurt: LH Cargo is looking for a location for “night jump” airliners.de, November 15, 2011