Whois & Analysis for knighttrans.com

Knight Transportation is a publicly traded Phoenix, Arizona, based American truckload motor shipping carrier, founded in 1990 by four cousins: brothers, Randy and Gary Knight and brothers Kevin and Keith Knight.

The four cousins worked for Swift Transportation, also based in Phoenix, and Randy was even a part-owner in Swift when Jerry Moyes bought out his interest.

The Moyes family and the Knight family both were raised in Plain City, Utah, before moving to Phoenix in the late 1960s.

In the shipping industry and logistics, drayage is defined as the transportation of goods over a short distance, often as part of a longer overall move, such as moving goods from a ship into a warehouse.

It is typically completed in a single work shift.

Some research defines it specifically as "a truck pickup from or delivery to a seaport, border point, inland port, or inter-modal terminal with both the trip origin and destination in the same urban area".

Port drayage is the term used when describing short hauls from ports and other areas to locations close by.

Drayage is an important aspect of the shipment and transportation of bulk items and materials to and from other means of transportation.

The term drayage is also used for the fee paid for such services.

Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes.

The method reduces cargo handling, and so improves security, reduces damage and loss, and allows freight to be transported faster.

Reduced costs over road trucking is the key benefit for inter-continental use.

This may be offset by reduced timings for road transport over shorter distances.

In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by ship, boat, or aircraft, although the term is now often extended to cover all types of freight, including that carried by train, van, truck, or intermodal container.

The term cargo is also used in case of goods in the cold-chain, because the perishable inventory is always in transit towards a final end-use, even when it is held in cold storage or other similar climate-controlled facility.

A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land.

Port locations are selected to optimize access to land and navigable water, for commercial demand, and for shelter from wind and waves.

Ports with deeper water are rarer, but can handle larger ships.

Since ports throughout history handled every kind of traffic, support and storage facilities vary widely, may extend for miles, and dominate the local economy.

Some ports have an important military role.