1 Cooperative Truck Networks Cooperative Truck Networks (CTN) are an idea from [1]: In order to reduce idle times of the trucks and overnight stays of the drivers, cooperate among various (small) logistic companies in the following way: Any driver leaves the depot with a truck and a full trailer in the morning and returns with that same truck and (maybe) another trailer in the afternoon. We call such a one-day home-away-home truck tour a depot commute. The full truckload stays on its trailer, and the trailer is passed on from truck to truck until it arrives at its destination. For example: Instead of two full truckload transportations, one from Hamburg to Munich and one from Munich to Hamburg that take a whole day one-way one could exchange the trailers in Kassel to get home on the same day.
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