Download or read book The Effect of Changes in Operations on Less than truckload Motor Carrier Productivity and Survival written by Peter Fifield Swan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Regulatory Reform on the Trucking Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 168 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 The Effects of Restrictive Municipal Regulations on Motor Carrier Operations and Costs written by University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 162 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 The Productivity Effects of Truck Size and Weight Policies written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While previous studies have indicated that increases in truck size and weight limits could improve motor carrier productivity, the question of whether or not freight shippers will also benefit has not been adequately addressed. It is generally assumed that competitive conditions in the motor carrier industry will result in cost savings being passed to shippers in the form of lower freight rates. Transportation costs, however, are only one component of shipper total logistics cost. Warehousing cost, inventory holding cost, order processing cost, and other categories of business logistics cost may also change as a result of the less frequent but larger shipments typically associated with the use of longer combination vehicles (LCVs). If switching from single trailer truckload shipments to LCVs causes shipper non-transport logistics costs to increase more than the savings available from lower freight rates, then productivity gains may be lost to the firm and the economy as a whole. This research was undertaken to determine the net effect of truck size and weight policy changes on shipper total logistics cost and how these effects might influence the demand for alternative tractor-trailer configurations.
Download or read book Effects of Deregulation on Motor Carriers written by Nicholas A. Glaskowsky and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trucking in the Age of Information written by Dale Belman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry. Prior research on trucking has focused on the effects of deregulation on the industry, but the industry's current transformation is driven by information technology, emerging business strategies, globalization of commodity production and the rise of package express and logistics. The volume brings together acknowledged and emerging scholars of the industry including Thomas Corsi (University of Maryland), Chelsea White III (Georgia Tech), Starr McMullen (Oregon State University), Will Mitchell (Duke University), Jeff Liker (University of Michigan), Francine LaFontaine (University of Michigan), Kristen Monaco (California State University at Long Beach) and Michael Conyngham (International Brotherhood of Teamsters) to address issues including technological change, third party logistics, lean trucking, driver safety and health, homeland security and the consolidation of trucking services. Each chapter provides an overview of industry issues and a discussion of current research.
Download or read book Survival of the Fittest Or the Fattest written by Luigi Zingales and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the impact that capital market imperfections have on the natural" selection of the most efficient firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less likely to survive the deregulation shock, even after controlling for various" measures of efficiency. This effect is stronger in the imperfectly competitive segment of the" motor carrier industry. High debt seems to affect survival by curtailing investments and reducing" the price per-ton-mile that a carrier can afford to charge after deregulation. "
Download or read book Working Paper Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implications of Regulatory Reform for Productivity and Technical Change in the Trucking Industry written by Shan-Chuan Ying and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Productivity and Competition in the U S Trucking Industry Since Deregulation written by Veiko Paul Parming and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980 Congress passed the Motor Carrier Act, substantially liberating trucking carriers from a federal regulatory structure that had exercised broad economic control over the industry for over four decades. Changes in the industry were swift and extensive. This thesis returns to the transformational period encompassing the deregulatory and post-deregulatory years. Using the Motor Carrier Annual Reports (Form M) dataset, the thesis sets its focus as physical productivity at the firm level, and analyzes the truckload (TL) and less-than-truckload (LTL) sectors separatIy. The Form M dataset covers the years 1977-1992; the baseline for cumulative analysis is set as 1979, the eve of the Motor Carrier Act. The productivity analysis is contextualized within a wider account of industry changes, including substantial declines in unit costs. The thesis goes on to present a framework for understanding how deregulation engendered changes in competition and productivity. Physical multifactor productivity (MFP) growth in the years 1979-1992 is found to average 1.6% p.a. for TL and 1.0% p.a. for LTL. After initial productivity stagnation, MFP growth from 1983 on was 2.0% and 1.7% p.a. for TL and LTL, respectively. This is suggestive of steady improvement in efficiency, if not a productivity revolution. Although productivity growth was modest, it played a significant role in cutting unit costs. Between 1979-1992 real unit costs declined by 39% for the truckload sector; productivity factors were associated with a 17% reduction while input price factors were responsible for a 20% reduction. For the LTL sector, the decline in unit costs was 17%, with productivity responsible for a 7% drop and input price factors, an 11% drop. The unit cost savings enabled carriers to offer lower real output prices to shippers.
Download or read book The U S Motor Carrier Industry Long After Deregulation written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Collective Bargaining in the Trucking Industry written by Michael H. Belzer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disentangling Regulatory Policy written by Federal Trade Commission and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper combines state-level data on trucking rates with information on state-level regulations to estimate the independent effect on rates from three different types of motor carrier regulations: rate regulation; entry regulation; and the provision of antitrust immunity for decisions made jointly by motor carrier rate bureaus. The empirical results indicate that state-level motor carrier regulations generally increase trucking rates, with entry regulation having the largest effect in the LTL (less-than-truckload) sector and rate regulation having the largest effect in the TL (truckload) sector. The study also examines interaction effects among the three types of regulations, and concludes that the combination of strict entry requirements and antitrust immunity leads to significant increases in trucking rates.
Download or read book Disentangling Regulatory Policy written by Federal Trade Federal Trade Commission and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines state-level data on trucking rates with information on state-level regulations to estimate the independent effect on rates from three different types of motor carrier regulations: rate regulation; entry regulation; and the provision of antitrust immunity for decisions made jointly by motor carrier rate bureaus. The empirical results indicate that state-level motor carrier regulations generally increase trucking rates, with entry regulation having the largest effect in the LTL (less-than-truckload) sector and rate regulation having the largest effect in the TL (truckload) sector. The study also examines interaction effects among the three types of regulations, and concludes that the combination of strict entry requirements and antitrust immunity leads to significant increases in trucking rates.
