Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 1995
Journal or Book Title
Transportation Quarterly
Volume
49
Issue
2
First Page
99
Last Page
115
Abstract
The relationships between motor carriers and their shippers have hanged a great deal since regulatory reform of the U.S. truck transportation industry began in the late 1970s. Prior to this regulatory change, business activity between carriers and shippers was conducted primarily on a transactional or shipment-to-shipment basis. The operating and pricing freedoms granted to motor carriers along with the development of new technologies and processes, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and just-in-time (JIT) production and inventory management, have encouraged carriers and shippers to form closer, longer term, and more interdependent relationships. These "partnershipping'' relationships between carriers and shippers resemble the relationships between shippers and their other service and product vendors that evolved much earlier.
Copyright Owner
Eno Foundation for Transportation, Inc.
Copyright Date
1995
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
File Size
17 p.
Recommended Citation
Braunschweig, Charles D.; Crum, Michael R.; and Allen, Benjamin J., "Evolution of Motor Carrier Contracting" (1995). Supply Chain Management Publications. 12.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/scm_pubs/12
Comments
This article is from Transportation Quarterly 49, no. 2 (1995): 99–115. Posted with permission