Night Jump
The term night jump describes, in the forwarding area, a particular form of night routing, in which system traffic is either between collection points or from one collection point to a customer (possibly vice versa).
Brief description
This so-called night docking is economically sensible in road transportation insofar as larger volumes of goods (usually via tractor-trailers) are transported between transshipment points. In addition, the usually more favorable road situation can be taken advantage of at night, so that congestion occurs much less frequently and deadlines can be easily met.
Vehicles are loaded in this system, for example, in the evening by forwarders, and travel to their destination at night. The goods are immediately available for use the next morning, so that no working day is wasted by unnecessary waiting. In a different variant, for example, the driver drops off his semi-trailer, trailer or WAB at the customer's place, and takes another semi-trailer for return transport.
A special variant is meeting communication. Here, two vehicles meet at one customer's site or parking lot to exchange their loading units (trailer, semi-trailer or WAB), and then split off in different directions. One can imagine that in all of these circuits, customers, locations, vehicles are included, thus obviously increasing the coordination effort.