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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The generalization that trucks are more efficient for short-haul freight than railcars does not pertain where shipment size and complementary traffic levels are sufficiently large. In particular, there...
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From:Monthly Labor ReviewPeer-ReviewedThe trade press covering the U.S. trucking industry often portrays the U.S. labor market for truck drivers as dysfunctional, citing persistent driver shortages and high levels of firm-level turnover and predicting...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis paper describes the role of trucking in the U.S. economy; the major changes that have impacted the industry since the mid-1950s; its current and future position vs. other freight transportation modes, especially...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 19, Issue 2)Peter A. Jacobson has returned to the Postal Service after five years in the private sector to take on the post of chief technology officer and senior vice president. Postmaster general William J. Henderson announced...
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From:Risk Management (Vol. 50, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedMany managers tout the concept of "working smarter, not harder," and while that mindset has merit, it can also pave the way to omitted details, skipped steps and a lack of diligence that can jeopardize operational...
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From:Management Accounting (USA) (Vol. 78, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedViking Freight Inc. is seriously committed to the successful implementation of transportation technology in the trucking industry. It launched a comprehensive program known as the PRISM project in 1993 with the aim of...
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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract A trucking company president recently exclaimed: "Life is not trucking, but trucking is life." Indeed, the goods that support North American lifestyles today are mostly delivered by trucks. Trucking also...
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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStudies on the effects of intrastate trucking deregulation and regulation show that deregulation results in increased competition among carriers. This has resulted in lower rates charged by competing carriers with...
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From:Hazardous Waste Consultant (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has upheld a New Jersey district court decision ruling that the language of a stock purchase agreement requires the buyer to assume the CERCLA liabilities of the seller....
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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the most pressing problems plaguing the trucking industry is the high rate of driver turnover. A survey of 175 trucking firms showed that 59% experienced turnover rates greater than 30%. Further investigation...
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From:Economic Inquiry (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUnion trucking firms have significantly different cost structures than non-union firms. Further, average costs for union firms are higher than for non-union firms even after controlling for higher unionized labor costs....
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From:Transportation Journal (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA study surveyed executives from various Minnesota manufacturing firms to identify factors that influence shippers' perceptions of transportation modes. The 153 respondents rated 17 individual transportation service...
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From:Journal of Business Strategies (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This paper examines the irregular route, long-haul segment of the U.S. trucking industry through the lens of Frei's (2008) service model. Firms in this industry often offer too many services. Frei's model...
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From:Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Vol. 36, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThree highway engineering policies directed at improving truck productivity by increasing size and weight limits have been implemented in the Canadian prairie region within the last 35 years: the 1974 Western Canada...
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From:Journal of Transportation Management (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of the study was to quantitatively explore truck driver safety records in an effort to determine and classify various types of drivers. Six safety variables relating to the number of safety points each...
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From:Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Vol. 2020) Peer-ReviewedThe trucking sector is an essential part of the logistic system in China, carrying more than 80% of its goods. The complexity of the trucking market leads to tremendous uncertainty in the market volatility. Hence, in...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 25, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed* Scott D. Calver (Calgary Chapter) was appointed Vice President and CFO for Calgary, Alberta-based Trimac Income Fund, an unincorporated, open-ended limited purpose trust that acquires and holds an indirect interest in...
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From:Journal of Labor Research (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. Introduction Trucking is a derived demand, labor-intensive industry with a traditional industrial relations climate; it has always been a highly competitive and cost-driven industry. In the union sector,...
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From:Journal of Managerial Issues (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedResearchers have long explored customer dissatisfaction and the effects of a responsive service provider on promoting customer repatronage (Blodgett and Granbois, 1992). Hirschman (1970) addresses this issue with his...
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From:Journal of Transportation Management (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe discoverability and admissibility of post-accident "preventability" determinations by trucking companies is often much disputed in truck accident cases. It is well known that Plaintiff's attorneys will try to...