Toll gate

1) Point at which traffic must stop for the payment of tolls for the use of roads and/or bridges. Also called tollbooths, and where there are a number of them in a line, called toll plazas in the US.

TOC

1) Train Operating Company (providing passenger services). Under privatization, the TOCs are separate from the infrastructure provider (ie Railtrack).

TMOH

1) Abbreviation for The Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook written by David Lowe. Leading transport management reference book, published annually since 1970 by Kogan Page, London.

TLC

1) Total logistics concept. The concept whereby individual elements such as warehousing, inventory, order processing, transport, distribution, and many other key functions, are considered as a whole (ie the logistics function within the total supply chain concept).

TIR carnet

1) Approved customs document (printed in French) which accompanies TIR consignments showing full details of journey/load/ packaging, etc. Voucher removed and counterfoil stamped by Customs on departure, at each border crossing and on arrival.

Tipper/tipping vehicle

1) A vehicle designed and built to discharge its load (usually of bulk goods - sand, gravel, coal, grain, etc, or liquid or granular loads) by raising the front end of the body hydraulically.