Practical Handbook of Industrial Traffic Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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 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.
• TheShipping Package.
• Regulations.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.