Download or read book The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation written by Clifford Winston and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For close to 100 years, America's surface freight industries, primarily rail and trucking, operated under the protective wing of the U.S. government. In 1980 Congress, finding vast inefficiencies in the two industries, substantially deregulated both, opening them at last to market competition. Deregulation has brought with it many changes—for firms within the industries, for their labor force, and for shippers and their customers. Clifford Winston, Thomas M. Corsi, Curtis M. Grimm, and Carol A Evans provide a comprehensive evaluation of the effect of the deregulation legislation on the rail and trucking industries. According to the authors, deregulation has made substantial progress in solving the two most vexing problems of the surface freight transportation industry—excessive rates in the trucking industry and insufficient returns on investment in the rail industry. Competition and efficiency have returned to both industries, and although the labor force in each has suffered wage and job losses, shippers and their customers have gained roughly $20 billion a year in benefits. The authors recommend policies that would continue to promote competition and the efficient use of highway and railway infrastructure.
Download or read book Deregulating Freight Transportation written by Paul Eric Teske and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of government intervention on the operations of the freight transportation industry.
Download or read book Transportation After Deregulation written by B Starr McMullen and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-09-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several of the papers in this volume are concerned with assessing both the timing and the impacts of deregulation and regulatory reform in the US transportation sector. Of increasing interest is the importance of productivity growth and the role played by new technologies in a more competitive market environment. Four of the papers in this volume deal directly with these issues in the context of motor carriers and railroads, two sectors which have been operating under substantially reduced regulatory constraints for the past twenty years in the US. Although the financial condition of US railroads has improved since 1980, there is still some concern regarding their long run viability as private enterprises. Accordingly, one of the papers considers the potential for further reductions in railroad costs through transcontinental mergers, a controversial issue due to the small number of railroads that remain in the industry.
Download or read book Regulation and Deregulation of the Motor Carrier Industry written by John Richard Felton and published by Iowa State Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trucking Industry Deregulation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a Theory of Deregulation written by Ronald Ray Braeutigam and published by . This book was released on 1976* with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freight Transport Regulation written by Ann Fetter Friedlaender and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this study evaluate the consequences of deregulation in the rail and trucking industries and, in particular, quantify the efficiency and distributional effects of such a change.
Download or read book Impact of Deregulation of the Trucking Industry on Small Businesses and Small Truck Owner operators written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Impact of Deregulation, and Privatization and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transportation Deregulation written by Daniel Joseph Sweeney and published by N A S S T R A C. This book was released on 1986 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sweatshops on Wheels written by Michael H. Belzer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.
Download or read book Deregulation of Surface Freight Forwarders written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulation Organizations and Politics written by Lawrence S. Rothenberg and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of federal regulation
Download or read book ECMT Round Tables Deregulation of Freight Transport Report of the Eighty Fourth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 1 2 February 1990 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication assesses past experience with deregulation in a number of countries and reviews ways and means of making the freight transport market truly efficient.
Download or read book Last Exit written by Clifford Winston and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proposes experiments in deregulating and privatizing the country's transportation systems to rid them of inefficiencies and significantly improve their performance in moving goods and people around the United States; the book covers roads, airports and airport traffic control, mass transit, intercity buses and railway networks"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The feasibility of deregulating surface freight transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Economic Assessment of Surface Freight Transportation Deregulation Classic Reprint written by Nancy L. Rose and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Economic Assessment of Surface Freight Transportation Deregulation Regulatory reforms during the late 1970 sand early1980s dramatically transformed the structure and performance of the U.S. surface freight transportation industry. After four decades of gradual decline, the number of firms in the interstate trucking industry exploded, increasing from 16,000 in 1975 to more than 33,000 in 1985. Real trucking rates fell nearly 20 percent over the same period. Deregulation of the rail industry led to mergers and consolidations that have slashed the number of large (Class I) carriers from 73 in 1975 to 26 in 1985. At the same time that real average revenue per ton-mile declined by 21 percent, real net railway operating income rose by over 160 percent. The structural and performance changes associated with transport "deregulation" generated substantial redistributions of wealth among carriers, labor, shippers, and final customers and dramatically altered the costs and organization of transportation services. Many of these consequences were anticipated in the debate over deregulation; others have emerged during the regulatory transition. In general, economic deregulation has led to net social benefits. However, three issues-- motor carrier safety, railroad pricing for captive shippers, and increased concentration in both industries-- have attracted growing public attention and raised questions about the desirability of competitive transportation industries. This study surveys the current state of the U.S. trucking and railroad industries and discusses developments that may merit policy attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Deregulation of freight transport written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
