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Q: ____ is generally the fastest form of transportation for shipments exceeding 600 miles. a. less-than-truckload motor carriers b. air c. parcel carriers d. truckload motor carriers
Q: In the United States, ____ account for the largest share of ton-miles and ____ account for the majority of freight revenues. a. railroads; railroads b. trucks; trucks c. trucks; railroads d. railroads; truck
Q: Rail gauge refers to ____. a. the allowable speed on a particular segment of track b. the thickness of rail track c. the length of rail track d. the distance between the inner sides of two parallel rail tracks
Q: A 3,047 meter (10,000 foot) runway is significant because it ____. a. is generally viewed as adequate for accommodating the largest existing wide-body aircraft b. is the longest that can be used worldwide due to safety regulations c. represents the longest runway in the world d. is only found in economically developed countries e. none of the above
Q: There are ____ modes of transportation. a. three b. four c. five d. six
Q: ____ is the actual, physical movement of goods and people between two points. a. logistics b. transportation c. materials handling d. materials management
Q: Discuss advantages and disadvantages to private transportation.
Q: How does a common carrier differ from a contract carrier?
Q: Define what is meant by economic regulation. Why is transportation economic deregulation important?
Q: Pick three modes of transportation, name the federal agency responsible for safety regulation for each of the modes you picked, and provide a safety-related issue for each mode.
Q: List several environmental regulations and describe their impact on transportation.
Q: Discuss the various options that are available to parcel shippers.
Q: What is a shippers' association?
Q: What are freight forwarders? How do they function? What services do they perform?
Q: How do containers help to facilitate intermodal transportation?
Q: Discuss the positive attributes of inland water transportation.
Q: How do weather conditions influence the reliability of inland water carriers?
Q: Discuss the drawbacks to rail transportation.
Q: What are pipeline slurry systems? How do they function?
Q: What are advantages and disadvantages to a pipeline's lack of vehicles?
Q: How do speed limits and hours-of-service rules potentially affect motor carrier service?
Q: How do truckload operations differ from less-than-truckload operations?
Q: Why is the reliability of airfreight transportation somewhat problematic?
Q: Discuss the speed of airfreight transportation in terms of its line-haul and accessorial service.
Q: Why is it important to know about the characteristics of a country's transportation infrastructure?
Q: Why is transportation important to a firm's supply chain operations?
Q: Assume that it is the year 2005 and the cost to HDT of borrowing money is 12% per year. Because the buyer will pay for trucks as they are delivered, would it be advantageous for HDT to pay overtime to speed up production, ship the trucks as they were finished via the Port of Baltimore, and collect their payment earlier? Why or why not?
Q: Is there an interest rate that would make HDT change from one routing to another? If so, what is it?
Q: Answer Question 3 with regard to changing the terms of sale to delivery at port in Baltimore. The buyer would unload the trucks from the railcars.
Q: Assume that the buyer in Saudi Arabia has made other large purchases in the United States and is considering consolidating all of its purchases and loading them onto one large ship, which the buyer will charter. The buyer contacts HDT and, although acknowledging its commitment to buy FAS Doha, asks how much HDT would subtract from the $172,000 per truck price if the selling terms were changed to FOB HDT's Crown Point plant. How much of a cost reduction do you think HDT should offer the buyer? Under what terms and conditions?
Q: Which of the two routing alternatives would you recommend? Why?
Q: Assume you are Vanderpool. Draft the comparison Pon just requested.
Q: One disadvantage to private transportation is that managerial costs are often ignored or underestimated.
Q: Private transportation is most prevalent in the pipeline industry.
Q: A contract carrier is under no obligation to render services to the general public.
Q: Common carrier transportation companies have four specific obligations.
Q: Private carriers do not have to comply with environmental and safety regulations.
Q: Since economic deregulation, transportation carriers are no longer constrained with respect to the variety of service they can offer.
Q: The U.S. Department of Commerce has primary responsibility for resolving railroad rate and service disputes as well as reviewing potential rail mergers.
Q: Economic regulation in transportation refers to control over business practices and activities such as entry and exit; pricing; service; accounting and financial issues; mergers and acquisitions.
Q: U.S. pipelines are so safe that there is no federal safety agency assigned to regulate them.
Q: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is the federal government body with primary responsibility for transportation safety regulation.
Q: Environmental regulation of transportation is concerned with water, noise, and air pollution.
Q: The level and degree of transportation regulation varies from country to country.
Q: U.S. commercial airline pilots face mandatory retirement at age 70.
Q: Parcels refer to packages weighing up to 100 pounds.
Q: A transportation broker looks to match a shipper's freight with a carrier to transport it.
Q: The main benefit of shippers' association is one-stop shopping.
Q: Freight forwarders sell freight at a higher rate per pound than they pay carriers to haul it.
Q: Freight forwarders are the same thing as freight brokers.
Q: Land bridge services involve the use of surface transportationgenerally rail transportationbetween an origin and destination port.
Q: A commonly used metric for measuring container volumes is the TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit).
Q: Airfreight containers are commonly referred to as "skids."
Q: With intermodal transportation, two or more modes work closely together in an attempt to utilize the advantages of each mode while at the same time minimizing their disadvantages.
Q: Of the modes with vehicles, railroads offer the greatest capacity, or volume, that can be carried at one time.
Q: Barge transportation tends to be slow.
Q: A barge crane raises or lowers barges so they can meet the river's level as they move upstream or downstream.
Q: Twelve feet of water is the minimum depth required for most barges.
Q: The U.S. railroad industry is dominated by four freight carriers.
Q: Railroads are considered the most reliable form of transportation.
Q: Pipelines are a unique mode of transportation because it is the only one without vehicles.
Q: The primary advantage for motor carriers is flexibility (the ability to deliver the product to the customer).
Q: Hours-of-service rules and speed limits have generally been justified on the basis of operational efficiency.
Q: Truckload freight moves through a carrier's terminal(s).
Q: Less-than-truckload shipments range from about 150 to 10,000 pounds.
Q: Which style would you recommend? Why?
Q: What are the total costs of delivering the style C shades to the Port of Shanghai?
Q: What are the total costs of delivering the Style B shades to the Port of Shanghai?
Q: What are the total costs of delivering the Style A shades to the Port of Shanghai?
Q: How many Style C shades can be loaded into a 40-foot container?
Q: How many Style B shades can be loaded into a 40-foot container?
Q: How many Style A shades can be loaded into a 40-foot container?
Q: As a general rule, picker-to-part systems are preferable to part-to-picker systems.
Q: It has been suggested that automation becomes economically viable only when a facility handles at least 50,000 cartons a day.
Q: Automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) are an example of mechanized materials handling equipment.
Q: Ergonomics refers to the interaction between workers and workplace conditions.
Q: The total cost of ownership is associated with the system principle of material handling.
Q: The "standardization principle" is generally regarded as the most important of the 10 material handling principles.
Q: A material's angle of repose refers to the size of angle that would be formed by the side of a conical stack of that material.
Q: Iron ore is more likely than coal to cube out a vehicle (i.e., equipment's cubic capacity is filled before reaching its weight capacity).
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