Practical Handbook of Industrial Traffic Management [Paperback]

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 Carriers 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 lãb