Chapter 9 Transportation regulation

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Transportation regulation

Transportation regulation functions

Transportation regulatory agency are primarily concerned with oversight and appropriate jurisdictional administration of the economic and safety of their assigned sector of the transportation industry.

Miscellaneous rate modification

Value rate: The carrier is liable for the value of goods lost or demage while in its custody.

Guaranteed schedule rates: A carrier is normally responsible only for exercising ”reasonable dispatch” which permits greater latitude than a guaranteed delivery schedule.

Space-available rate: To achieve higher capacity utilization after regular cargo have been loaded.

Measurement rate: rate that reflect weight- density ratio are used in the delivery in ocean transportation.

Agreed rate: Agreed rate are loyalty incentive rate, granted in exchange for the shipment of a specific of a specific % share of total annual shipment.

Governmental rate: provide the general rule making need not apply to shipment made by government agencies.

Multimodal rate: Most multimodal rate are quoted by the service and are generally base on carrier cost.

Accessorial service and terminal charges

Accessories service. Is type of service, often considered as privileges by the providing carrier, result from special needs the shippers and competition among carrier. The more significant of such service are described below:

Diversion and reconsignment- Mean is change in the routing of the shipment.

Protective service- Are offered for goods that could be affected by environment.

Special equipment- This part sometime assed for the use of equipment that meets special shipper needs of extra charges.

Transit privileges- This facilitate the flow of goods that requirement some handling or processing at an intermediate point.

Stop-off privileges- This type of transit privilege the shipper or receiver to stop a shipment to partially load or unload it at an intermediate point.

Split delivery- Is an additional service provided by highway carrier and the permits and unlimited number of segment of a large shipment to delivery within the limit of a split- delivery area.

Pickup and delivery- Certain carrier commonly quote rate on a terminal-to-terminal basis.

UTILIZATION OF AUTOMATED LOGISTICS INFORMATION TEHNOLOGY

The efficacy of the logistics system has been significantly enhanced by the introduction and utilization of a number of forms of information technology (IT). Among the more exemplary and useful form of the new technology is Radio Frequency identification to be addressed in this section.