SCIAN 4842—Specialized freight transport

Where 4842 sits

1. 48-49 Transport, mail and storage
2. 484 Freight transport
3. 4842 Specialized freight transport

Contains 3 narrower codes

• 48421 Moving services
• 48422 Specialized local freight transport, excluding moving services
• 48423 Specialized long-distance freight transport, excluding moving services

Description

Economic units primarily engaged in local and long-distance road transport of products that, due to characteristics such as size, weight or hazardousness, require specialized road transport equipment for their transportation, such as platforms and other equipment for transporting construction materials, hazardous materials and waste, products that require refrigeration or freezing, wood and its derivatives, heavy or oversized machinery and live animals, and moving services.

What 4842 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 that the predominant one is specialized freight transport.

Cross-references for 4842

• These economic units are involved in the local and long-distance trucking of packaged or loose products that do not require specialized equipment for their transport (4841, General freight trucking); providing 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 themselves (4885, Freight transportation intermediation services); and handling and collection of hazardous or non-hazardous waste (562, Waste management and remediation services).

4842 in other systems