Practical Handbook of Industrial Traffic Management [electronic resource] /

1 Managing Transportation -- The Principles of Traffic Management -- 2 Transportation Regulation -- The Traffic Manager and Deregulation -- The Interstate Commerce Commission -- Revised Interstate Commerce Act -- The Era of Deregulation -- Motor Carrier Act (1980) -- Airline Deregulation Act (1978) -- Staggers Rail Act (1980) -- Exemptions -- Abandonment -- Market Dominance -- Rate Adjustments -- Through Routes and Rates -- Rate and Service Contracts -- Railroad Rate Bureaus -- Freight Bill Payment -- Regulation of Water Carriers -- Brokers -- State Commissions -- Department of Transportation -- 3 Freight Classification -- Purpose and Background -- The Motor Carrier Classification -- Water Carrier Classifications -- Freight Forwarder Classification -- General Comments -- Using the Classifications -- Classification Rules -- 4 Shipping Documents -- What Is a Bill of Lading? -- Railroad Bills of Lading -- The Carrier’s Duty to Issue Bills of Lading -- Preparing the Bill of Lading -- Distribution of the Bill of Lading Copies -- The Ocean Bill of Lading -- U.S. Government Bill of Lading -- Air Bill of Lading -- Other Documents -- 5 Freight Rates -- Kinds of Rates -- Types of Rates -- Charges -- How Rates Are Published -- How Rates Are Established -- Rate Adjustments -- Rate Bureaus -- How to Check Freight Rates -- Tariff Regulations -- A Rate Problem -- Auditing Freight Bills -- Sales Terms -- 6 Freight Routing -- The Right to Route -- Fundamentals of Routing -- Routing by Rail -- Piggyback -- Motor Common Carrier -- Household Goods Carriers -- Freight Forwarders -- Parcel Post -- Domestic Water Routing -- Domestic Air Freight Routing -- Small Package Service -- Pipe Line -- Consolidation and Distribution in Routing -- Compensated Intercorporate Hauling -- 7 Industrial Packaging & Material Handling -- Packaging -- Loss and Damage -- The Shipping Package -- Regulations -- Classification Rules -- Packaging Specifications -- National Safe Transit Program -- Export Packaging -- Materials Handling for Distribution -- Loading -- Containerization -- 8 Claims -- Bill of Lading Terms -- Terms of Shipment -- Carrier vs. Warehouseman’s Liability -- Released Valuation Liability -- Claims -- Filing a Claim -- Overcharge Claims -- Loss or Damage Claims -- Elmore and Stahl Decision -- Preparing Claims -- Concealed Damage -- Transportation Arbitration Board -- Role of the I.C.C -- Record Keeping -- 9 Distribution & Warehousing -- Distribution -- Role of the Public Warehouse -- The Private Warehouse -- The Contract Warehouse -- Warehouse Location -- The Warehouse -- 10 Contract/Private Carriage -- Private Carriage -- Contract Carriage -- The Contract -- 11 Expediting and Tracing -- Carload Shipments -- Truckload Shipments -- Piggyback Shipments -- Less-Than-Truckload Shipments -- Freight Forwarder Shipments -- Air Freight Shipments -- Maritime Shipments -- Parcel Post and Mail -- Small Package Services -- General—All Services -- 12 Transportation Special Services -- Average Demurrage Agreement -- Motor Carrier Detention Charges -- Storage Charges -- Switching -- Embargoes -- Transit Privileges: Stop-Offs, Other Arrangements -- Reconsignment and Diversion -- Side Track Agreements -- Weight Agreements -- 13 E.D.P. and Traffic Management -- Reasons for Computer Control -- Systems -- Why Systems Fail -- Conclusions -- 14 Managing the Traffic Department -- Functions of an Industrial Traffic Department -- Traffic Organization -- Traffic Operations -- Equipping the Industrial Traffic Department -- Cooperating Functions of the Traffic Department -- Traffic Department Public Relationss -- 15 Government Traffic -- Overseas Traffic -- Air Traffic -- Documentation -- 16 Import/Export Traffic -- Ocean Carriers -- Shipping Act of 1984 -- Ocean Freight Rates -- Insurance and Claims -- Insurance Claims -- Documents -- Export Documents -- Methods of Paying for Exports -- Drafts and Other “Instruments” -- Foreign Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers -- Imports and Customs Duties -- Financing Imports -- Role of the Custom House Brokers -- Shipping by Air -- Packaging -- Nat’l Committee on Int’l Trade Documentation -- New Ships and Shipping Systems -- The Bridges -- 17 Shipping Hazardous Materials -- The Law -- Setting up a Compliance Program -- Transporting Hazardous Materials via Water -- Exporting and Importing Hazardous Materials -- Transporting Hazardous Materials via Air -- Some Other Aids -- 18 Physical Distribution Management -- Organization -- Traffic Manager into Physical Distribution Manager -- Inventory Control -- Warehousing -- Material Handling -- Packaging -- Customer Service -- Site Location -- Appendix 1 Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Commonly Used in Foreign Trade -- Appendix 2 Glossary of Distribution Terms -- Appendix 3 Revised American Foreign Trade Definitions—1941 -- Appendix 4 Uniform Straight Bill of Lading -- Appendix 5 Railroad Bill of Lading -- Appendix 6 Ocean Bill of Lading -- Appendix 7 A Selection of Traffic Publications and Associations -- Appendix 8 P.L. 93–633 -- Appendix 9 Hazardous Material Definitions.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Morse, Leon Wm. author., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Boston, MA : Springer US, 1987
Subjects:	Business., Management science., Production management., Business and Management., Operations Management., Business and Management, general.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1977-1
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