The construction transport glossary
75 terms of the trade, defined simply: skips, rotations, trucks, schedule, dispatch, evidence. The vocabulary of your sites and depots, then the Nereva page that goes with it.
A
Aggregates
Sand, gravel and chippings from quarries or recycling, used for concrete, asphalt and base layers. Delivered in bulk, by tipper truck. On Nereva, an aggregates delivery is requested like other materials, with quantity and time slot. See the page →
Alert, notification
A notification is a message sent by the platform to the people concerned when an event occurs: request accepted, scheduled, modified or cancelled, carrier on the way, skip dropped at the sorting centre. In Nereva, these notifications exist today in the back offices and the apps, according to roles and permissions, and require a connection. Anticipation alerts, which would flag a tension before it happens, fall under EVA, under development. See the page →
B
Back office
The company’s web workspace, used from a browser: requests, schedule, fleet, documents, invoices. The carrier and the construction company each have their own. In Nereva, the two back offices synchronise when the companies are connected. See the page →
Bulk
Sand, gravel, soil, excavated material, asphalt: loads transported without packaging, in a tipper truck, and counted in m³ or tonnes. On Nereva, a bulk delivery or removal is requested with its quantity. See the page →
C
Concrete pump truck
It conveys concrete up high or down deep, where the mixer cannot pour it directly.
Consortium, grouping of companies
Several companies collaborating on the same project while keeping their own structures and responsibilities. On Nereva, each company keeps its account; transport requests, missions and their proof preserve the project’s context: who requested what, when, for which site. See the page →
Construction waste
What the site produces and has to remove: inert waste (concrete, rubble, soil), wood, metals, plaster, mixed waste, sometimes special waste. Sorted on site or at the sorting centre, and tracked by type. In Nereva, every removal carries the waste type and, when entered, the weight. See the page →
Crane truck
Flatbed truck fitted with a lifting arm: it delivers pallets, materials and small machines and places them where the site needs them. In Nereva, a crane delivery is a flow like any other, with photo and note on arrival. See the page →
Custom request
A need that does not fit the usual boxes (drop, exchange, delivery): a particular manoeuvre, special equipment, an access constraint. On Nereva, it still leaves in a structured way to the carrier, with place, slot and details. See the page →
D
Delivery note, transport note
The document attesting that a transport has been carried out: what, where, when, for whom. It is the basis of the invoice and the reference in case of disagreement. In Nereva, the note is digital, timestamped and archived with the mission. See the page →
Dispatch
Assigning each mission to a truck and a driver, then reacting to the day’s changes. It is the operator’s job, at the depot. In Nereva, dispatch is done in the back-office schedule; the driver receives the mission in their app. See the page →
Driver
The person driving the truck. They carry out the missions (drop, exchange, collection, delivery) and produce the evidence: photos, notes, weights. They are the ones absorbing the day’s contingencies. With the Nereva Transports app, they have their missions in order and report each step without calling the depot. See the page →
Driver app
The driver’s mobile app: they receive their missions in order, start the guidance, report their steps and send their evidence (photos, notes, weights). At Nereva, it is Nereva Transports. See the page →
E
Eco-driving
Driving in a way that limits fuel use and wear: gentle acceleration, anticipating braking, less idling. For a carrier, that is less fuel and maintenance. Analysis of driving during missions is under development at Nereva. See the page →
Empty-and-return
The same skip leaves full, is emptied at the sorting centre and comes back to the site. One truck, one skip, one rotation: handy when the site has no room for two skips. On Nereva, empty-and-return is a request type, with the time of drop at the sorting centre. See the page →
Environmental engineer
Appointed by the project owner or the general contractor to monitor the site’s waste: types, quantities, channels, supporting documents. In Nereva, they find the removals by waste type with their notes and photos. See the page →
EVA
Engine for Virtual Anticipation, Nereva’s anticipation engine. It is meant to read missions, rotations and real constraints to spot the day’s tensions and propose adjustments. It is under development; the teams keep the decision. See the page →
Excavated material
Soil and materials dug out during earthworks and excavations. Depending on their quality, they go to recovery, to backfill elsewhere or to landfill, by tipper or in a skip. In Nereva, an excavated-material removal is requested and tracked like a skip. See the page →
F
Flatbed truck
Open-bed truck for long or palletised loads, or machinery, with or without a crane. See the page →
Fleet
All the vehicles of a transport company: trucks, trailers, machinery. Managing it means knowing at any time which vehicle is available, on a mission or in the workshop, and with which driver. In Nereva, the fleet appears on the back-office map during missions, without a tracking box. See the page →
Flow (transport movement)
A complete movement, from request to evidence: drop, exchange, collection, empty-and-return, removal with waiting, materials delivery, machine transport. These are Nereva’s request types. See the page →
Forecast
Anticipating a load, a tension or a need before it arises, from operating data. In Nereva, the schedule today shows overlapping slots and requests to be scheduled, by reading; load forecasting, tension detection and adjustment proposals fall under EVA, under development, with no announced date. See the page →
Foreman
The site’s field manager. They are often the one ordering the skip or the removal, and waiting for the truck with their team. From the site app, they order and see the truck coming without calling. See the page →
G
General contractor (GC)
The company that carries the whole site on behalf of the project owner and coordinates the trades. It orders, or has ordered, a large part of the transport. On Nereva, it centralises its sites’ requests and sends them to its carriers. See the page →
Geolocation
The truck’s position during the mission, to know where it is and when it arrives. It helps dispatch and the site; it is not meant to monitor people. In Nereva, it runs through the driver app, only during the mission, with no box to install. See the page →
Grab truck
Truck fitted with a grab to load materials or waste by itself, without a machine on the ground.
H
Hook loader
Another name for the hook-arm truck (hook-lift): it pulls the skip onto its chassis. Skips of 10 to 40 m³, excavated material, rubble, empty-and-return. On Nereva, the schedule distinguishes hook loaders and chain skip loaders, each with its skips. See the page →
Hook-lift truck
Truck fitted with a hydraulic hook arm that pulls the skip onto its chassis and sets it back on the ground. It takes the large skips (roughly 10 to 40 m³) and does an empty-and-return in a single trip. Also called a roll-on roll-off or hook loader. On Nereva, its rotations are scheduled in the TMS, together with the matching skip fleet. See the page →
Hybrid company
A construction company that actually runs its own transport activity: its trucks, its drivers, its dispatch. On Nereva, it uses both environments, Construction for its sites and Transport for its operations: the requests from its sites land in its own Transport back office, and a partner carrier remains possible. See the page →
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Invitation (partnership)
Linking two companies that already work together, so that their tools talk to each other. It does not create a business relationship: it connects one that exists. On Nereva, the invitation goes from one back office to the other; each remains free to accept. See the page →
J
Jet-vac truck
Truck that clears and cleans pipes and structures with high-pressure water and sucks up the sludge.
L
Low-loader truck
Low-bed truck for transporting construction machinery: excavators, loaders, rollers. Machine transport has its own constraints (weight, height, route). On Nereva, the site requests a machine transport like a skip: the carrier schedules it. See the page →
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Materials delivery
The site’s inbound flow: aggregates, concrete, pallets, materials, raw materials, machinery, equipment. It is planned with the supplier or the carrier, and it holds up a team if it arrives late. On Nereva, the delivery is requested with nature, quantity, place and slot, and tracked through to the note. See the page →
Mission
The driver’s unit of work: a movement to carry out (drop, exchange, collection, delivery) with the address, the slot, the type of skip or load and the evidence to produce. A site request becomes a mission once assigned. In Nereva, the mission is the same data on the site side, the dispatch side and the driver side. See the page →
Mission closure
The end of a mission on the driver’s side: the skip is dropped or collected, the photos and note are done, the mission is complete. In Nereva, closure attaches the evidence to the mission; the invoice can be issued from there. See the page →
Mixer truck
Mixer truck that transports ready-mix concrete while keeping it in motion until pouring.
Mixer-pump truck
Mixer and concrete pump combined on a single truck: it transports the concrete and places it.
N
Notice
The time between the request and the execution: a skip for tomorrow morning, a removal in two hours. The shorter the notice, the more the carrier’s schedule has to absorb, and the more the phone rings. On Nereva, a request placed a little in advance lands in the schedule without a call; urgent requests remain possible. See the page →
O
Offline mode
The operation of a mobile app that lets work in progress continue when the device no longer has a network connection, then synchronises what was done when the connection returns. Nereva Transports and Nereva Commandes have it, within the supported scope: tunnels, basements, car parks, mountains, remote sites, quarries, gravel pits, depots. Without a network, nothing is transmitted to other users before reconnection; the back offices are used in a connected browser. Heavy-vehicle GPS navigation in Nereva Transports keeps working without a network. See the page →
Operational analytics
The reading of the activity in figures, from the executed requests: indicators per period, comparisons between periods, trucks, sites or request types, statements, reports and history. In Nereva, it comes from the Statistics module and the back office dashboard, with no re-entry; it gives indications, judgement stays with the teams. See the page →
Operational data
Information produced by the work itself: a request, an assignment, a timestamped step, a photo, a note, an entered tonnage, a cancellation, a wait. In Nereva, operations produce this data by working; the statistics and analytics make it readable and QHSE can then use it, without additional entry. See the page →
Operator
At the depot, the person who organises trucks, drivers and the schedule, and takes the day’s calls. Also called dispatcher or operations manager. In Nereva, they receive the sites’ requests in their schedule and assign them without re-entry. See the page →
Order (transport request)
What the site asks the carrier for: a skip to drop, a removal, a materials delivery, a machine transport, with the place, the time slot and the type of skip or load. On Nereva, the request leaves the site and arrives as is in the carrier’s schedule. See the page →
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Principal
The one who orders and pays for the transport: construction company, general contractor, project owner, municipality, recycler. On Nereva, the principal creates its requests and sends them to its usual carriers. See the page →
Project owner
The one for whom the works are built: the owner or end client of the site. They increasingly demand full traceability of waste and transport. On Nereva, the supporting documents of removals are available to answer them. See the page →
Proof of execution
What shows that a transport did take place: photo of the skip dropped or collected, note, time of passage, weight at the sorting centre. Without proof, disagreements are settled from memory. In Nereva, the photos and the time of each step are attached to the mission and visible on both sides. They are supporting documents that reflect the entries made in the platform, not automatic legal proof. See the page →
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QHSE (quality, health, safety, environment)
The function that ensures compliance with the procedures, the applicable requirements and the company’s quality, health and safety and environmental objectives, in construction as in transport. On Nereva, the QHSE manager enters nothing: they use the traceability produced by operations (requests, missions, notes, photos, timestamps, history) to find supporting documents and prepare inspections. See the page →
R
Reconciliation
The accounting check that aligns the order, the note and the invoice before paying. It is done by hand when the documents are scattered. In Nereva, the carrier’s invoice is built from the executed requests; the three documents sit on the same mission. See the page →
Removal with waiting
The truck arrives with a skip, waits on site while it is filled, then leaves to remove it. The waiting time is part of the service. On Nereva, removal with waiting is a request type, with its start and end times. See the page →
Report per truck
The document that gathers, over a month, the missions of one vehicle: dates, sites, distances, prices if you choose to include them. In Nereva, it is generated in the Invoices module of the Transport back office, next to the statements, and downloaded as PDF or XLSX. See the page →
Rotation
A complete round trip of a truck for one movement: leaving the depot or the sorting centre, passing through the site, coming back. It is the carrier’s production unit: rotations are counted per day and per truck. In Nereva, each rotation is a mission with its times, its evidence and its invoicing. See the page →
S
Schedule
The board of missions per truck and per driver, hour by hour. It moves all day with requests, delays and contingencies; keeping it up to date is the heart of the operator’s work. In Nereva, the carrier’s schedule receives the requests of connected sites directly. See the page →
Single database
One information base for every department of a company, instead of one file per person. Everyone reads what concerns them and nobody re-enters data. That is Nereva’s principle: the request, the mission and the invoice are the same data, seen through different windows. See the page →
Site
The place of the works, with its address, access, hours and constraints. That is where skip, removal and delivery requests come from. In Nereva, each site has its record, its requests, the skips present and its documents. See the page →
Site app
The site’s mobile app: the foreman or site manager creates transport requests there (skip, removal, delivery), sees what is planned and what is under way, and finds the delivery notes and photos. At Nereva, it is Nereva Commandes. See the page →
Skip
Open metal container dropped on the site to receive waste, excavated material or materials, then collected by truck. Chain (or cable) skips for small volumes, hook skips for large ones, from a few m³ to 40 m³. On Nereva, the carrier tracks its skip fleet and schedules their rotations in the same software. See the page →
Skip collection (removal)
Taking a skip back from the site: full to the sorting centre, or empty to the depot. It is a skip’s last movement on a site; also called removal or pick-up. On Nereva, collection is a request type, with photo and collection time. See the page →
Skip drop (placement)
Placing an empty skip on the site, in the right spot and the right time slot. It is a skip’s first movement; also called placement or delivery of the skip. On Nereva, the drop is a request type, scheduled and executed with a photo at placement. See the page →
Skip exchange
The full skip leaves and an empty one replaces it, in the same rotation. It is the most common movement on a site producing waste continuously. On Nereva, the exchange is a request type; the carrier’s schedule shows it per truck. See the page →
Skip fleet
All of a carrier’s skips, by type and volume: how many are at the depot, on sites, on trucks or under repair. Tracking it avoids running short on Monday morning or forgetting one on a site. On Nereva, the fleet inventory is kept by skip type; individual identification of each skip is under development. See the page →
Skip hire
In the trade, the provision of a skip by a carrier or hire company for a given period: drop, time on site, collection, often with the transport and the waste treatment invoiced separately. Nereva does not hire out or supply skips. On Nereva, the carrier hiring out its skips tracks their movements (drop, exchange, collection) and the skips present on each site. See the page →
Skip loader (chain lift)
Truck fitted with a chain or cable arm that lifts chain skips and sets them on the ground. It is the truck of small and medium site skips (roughly 4 to 12 m³), the one for quick exchanges in town. On Nereva, the carrier’s schedule distinguishes its skip loaders and hook-lift trucks. See the page →
Sorting centre
The facility that receives construction waste, weighs it, sorts it by type (inert, wood, metals, mixed) and sends it to recycling or disposal. Also called an outlet or recovery platform. In Nereva, dropping the skip at the sorting centre is a step of the mission, with its time and photos. See the page →
Statement (daily or monthly)
The summary of the missions executed for a client and a site, per day or per month: reference, request, truck, skip, destination, distance, price, linked photos and receipts. In Nereva, the carrier checks it, then sends it to its client as PDF or XLSX; on the construction side, it arrives in the back office, attached to the services. See the page →
Synchronisation
The fact that the site and the carrier work on the same information, synchronised by the platform: the request, the planned time, the truck on its way, the skip dropped. Without it, each keeps its own version and checks by phone. That is what Nereva does when the two companies are connected: the same mission, seen from both sides. See the page →
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Tanker truck
Truck dedicated to transporting liquids: water, fuels, liquid sludge.
Time and materials
Man or machine hours invoiced on time spent, in addition to or instead of a fixed price: an extended wait, an unplanned manoeuvre, a machine made available. On Nereva, a time-and-materials provision is managed as a request in its own right, tracked and documented with the mission concerned. See the page →
Tipper truck
Truck with a tipping body, the bulk vehicle: soil, rubble, sand, gravel, excavated material. Loaded by excavator and emptied by tipping. Its bulk rotations are scheduled in the Nereva TMS like the others. See the page →
TMS
A TMS (Transport Management System) is software used to organise and monitor transport operations: requests, schedule, dispatch, drivers, vehicles, missions, notes and invoicing. A general-purpose TMS is designed for parcel or long-haul transport. Nereva is a TMS specialised in transport related to construction and construction sites: skips, materials, bulk, waste, machinery, with skip fleet management and the connection to the sites. See the page →
Tonnage
The weight transported, weighed at the sorting centre or estimated. It is used to invoice waste treatment and to track quantities per site. In Nereva, the weight is entered on the removal, with the waste type. See the page →
U
User licence
A licence corresponds to one role assigned to a Nereva user. A user can have one or several roles, in the office or in the field, and each assigned role uses a separate licence; the Nereva subscription consists solely of licences, with no commission on transport. See the page →
V
Vacuum excavator truck
Tool truck that sucks up excavated material, rubble or sludge where the excavator cannot reach: narrow trenches, buried networks, cellars.
Vehicle (in a TMS)
Each truck of the fleet, identified by its plate and its type (skip loader, hook-lift, tipper, crane, flatbed). It is to the vehicle, with its driver, that dispatch assigns the missions. In Nereva, the schedule is displayed per vehicle; the vehicle record keeps its missions. See the page →
W
Waste traceability
Knowing, for each waste removed, its type, quantity, date and place of treatment, with the supporting documents. Project owners and authorities ask for it more and more. In Nereva, each removal keeps its waste type, its weight when entered, its time at the sorting centre and its photos. See the page →
Works manager
They run several sites at once: schedule, budgets, subcontractors, validation of services. Transport is part of it, often by phone. In Nereva, they see the requests and deliveries of all their sites in one place. See the page →
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