Project Accounting. Costpoint was designed to meet the needs of government contractors for accounting. Specifically, government contractors, who have regulations regarding executive compensation, unallowable costs, and requirements of indirect labor that do not effect non-government contractors.
In allowing the longer truck combinations, what would take two 16.5 m (54 ft) semi-trailer trucks and one 18.75 m (62 ft) truck and trailer to haul on the continent now could be handled by just two 25.25 m trucks â greatly reducing overall costs and emissions.
As the name suggests, this is the most popular bed for these trucks. They usually have a length of 5 ft (1.5 m). By comparison the full size is 6.5 ft (2.0 m) or 8 ft (2.4 m). Long beds are of course more versatile. That is one reason why the standard long is very popular.