SCIAN 484—Freight transport

Where 484 sits

1. 48-49 Transport, mail and storage
2. 484 Freight transport

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 4841 General freight trucking
• 4842 Specialized freight transport

Description

Economic units primarily engaged in road transport, both of packaged or loose products that do not require specialized equipment, are transported in stake trucks, closed dry boxes, trailers, semi-trailers, containers, platforms and other vehicles for general cargo, as well as those products that, due to characteristics such as size, weight or danger, require specialized road transport equipment, such as platforms and other equipment, to transport construction materials, hazardous materials and waste, wood and its derivatives, products that require refrigeration or freezing, heavy or oversized machinery, live animals, and moving services.

What 484 includes

• Establishments primarily engaged in freight transportation that requires temperature controlled by heat, and economic units dedicated to logistics services, which, among all their services, consider freight transport to be the predominant one.

Cross-references for 484

• They provide logistics services, which consist of coordinating activities for the distribution of goods. These economic units carry out their activity by subcontracting services provided by other economic units—such as transportation, storage, packaging and labeling services, and customs procedures—and only coordinate or subcontract to third parties, they do not carry out the transportation, storage, etc. services (488, Transportation-related services), and they handle and collect hazardous or non-hazardous waste (562, Waste management and remediation services).

484 in other systems