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Burton, L.D. (2005). Strategic inventory positioning of Navy depot level repairable. Monterey, Calif: Naval Postgraduate School.
The author of this article talks about the importance of monitoring and management of costs in a truck firm. He further explains in a detailed manner the impacts of technology regarding costs management. It is in here that we are made to understand that the cost per mile has long been the preferred metric for monitoring costs; the metrics inclusive of drivers and maintenance, fuel, taxes, insurance, licenses and any other operational costs. This author also addresses the earliest information technology that has been developed by fleets that were designed to cut on the fuel costs and after that making allowing the fleets to operate smoothly. It further explains in depth the impacts of the developed design method in as far as revenues are concerned; with this author, we are made to understand the effects of cutting non-revenue miles and increased revenue-generating miles in long transportation operations. The author explains, how mileage is affected by putting into consideration factors that might affect the routes for example traffic, weather. According to the methods being addressed in this source, we made aware that drivers are also the cause of mileage increase, and therefore he explains how the behavior of the drivers might be the cause of higher costs of operation
Canada. Dept. of Natural Resources. Energy Sector. Energy Efficiency Branch. (1997). Fleetsmart Profiles
The author of this source tries to analyze the increasing concerns across the globe regarding the ecological impacts of trade management resolutions in which a lot of of them affect the hauling besides the logistics sector. In this article, it is explained in detail why and how externalities have assumed rise to the perception of workable mobility. The source talks in details on how a third party can be impacted by various social and environmental impacts; impacts that come along with business logistics activities; it also discusses the various advantageous implications too. This source is full of information regarding externalities; it has information on transportation activities in European a country that generates externalities. The article analyses and explains in depth the economic costs of hauling activities totaling to eight percent Gross Domestic Product way back in the year 2000. In this article, one will be able to understand the road means of transport as the main method of freight measure plus the major foundation of freight-related Carbon IV oxide emissions in various developed countries; and how it led to climate change. The article further explains how it is essential to fit in the ideas of the different impacts of the road freight on the environment.
González, E., & Epstein, L. D. (September 01, 2015). Minimum cost in a mix of new and old reusable items: an application to sizing a fleet of delivery trucks. Annals of Operations Research, 232, 1, 135-149.
González, E., & Epstein, L. D. September 01, 2015, talks about how companies own trucks which operate commodity delivery services; and how the companies could handle and regulate on the various costs. The article gives a detailed explanation of how shipment companies choose to own trucks to enable them to carry on their hauling works smoothly, efficiently and economically. The author further talks about how new trucks could be of significance when they are compared to old ones in shipment operations. In this source, the author talks about how a company can operate a fleet that consists of sub-fleets which are meant to work in collaboration to service delivery. The article further puts forward various methods that will help to define the figure of new lorries a company need to own towards achieving maximum production; the number also, in turn, plays an important role in as far as the estimated present worth of a task applies, as to complete payload delivery. The article explains how historical information can be used in monitoring service delivery; it gives an insight on the restrictions that accompany the service delivery and how it applies to regulate shipments to specific customers during certain time windows.
Kock, N. F. (1999). Process improvement and organizational learning: The role of collaboration technologies. Hershey, Pa: Idea Group.
The author of this article summarizes carrier collaboration within industries; He bases his arguments on collaboration to having being studied for different models including cargo, rail freight and linear shipping. The article discusses the issues of well-organized allocation of cooperative capacity in various systems, and focuses on procedures research methodologies to model the difficult. Carrier collaboration is being addressed in this article regarding modeling in the supply as well as allocation of returns plus the scheme of the cooperative links. This article gives the relationships between the profits targets and the resources prices regarding their proposed mechanisms. It also discusses the concept of utilization of an external ground hauler for example when demands cannot be met by the current fleet capacity. Calculations of the reservation price for loads is being addressed in this article in a manner that it depicts how communications are made where after the calculations, the first party communicates to his next peer in a chain which makes it a successful collaboration. Therefore, in this article, information in cooperation is being talked about in depth and thus making it the right place for concrete information and knowledge concerning carrier collaboration and in as far as profit and cost sharing are concerned.
Taylor, G. D., Zakaria, F., Petre, M. K., Mack-Blackwell National Rural Transportation Study Center (U.S.), & University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.). (1999). New marketing paradigms for truckload trucking: Using agile dedicated fleets to regularize distribution. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas, Mack-Blackwell National Rural Transportation Study Center.
The author of this article starts with a dialogue regarding an operative feasibility for committed fleets from analyzed findings regarding preliminary experimentations by use of simple closed-loop lane tour amongst hubs. The author explains how the experiment is conducted where an additional test by use of two variations of the simple lane tour is inclusive. In here we are made to understand in details and give answers to questions concerning methods of fleet management and fleet logistics in companies. The author shades light on the designs plus techniques and in turn, he gives every problem an appropriate remedy through the presentation of experimental results which was arrived at by doing analysis that is concluded through standard measures of performance. The author further explains how the experiment conducted relates to every situation in fleet management for the betterment of customer services and general improvements of operations in the firm. He talks about how the costs are reduced in the most efficient and productive ways possible; how the quality of drivers lives are improved. In the article, the author tries to give understanding on how companies have deployed dedicated fleets and how they are engineered to deliver in lanes with the focus of regulating the driving jobs.
References
Burton, L. D., Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), & Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). (2005). Strategic inventory positioning of Navy depot level repairables. Monterey, Calif: Naval Postgraduate School.
Canada. Dept. of Natural Resources. Energy Sector. Energy Efficiency Branch. (1997). Fleetsmart Profiles
González, E., & Epstein, L. D. (September 01, 2015). Minimum cost in a mix of new and old reusable items: an application to sizing a fleet of delivery trucks. Annals of Operations Research, 232, 1, 135-149.
Kock, N. F. (1999). Process improvement and organizational learning: The role of collaboration technologies. Hershey, Pa: Idea Group.
Taylor, G. D., Zakaria, F., Petre, M. K., Mack-Blackwell National Rural Transportation Study Center (U.S.), & University Transportation Centers Program (U.S.). (1999). New marketing paradigms for truckload trucking: Using agile dedicated fleets to regularize distribution. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas, Mack-Blackwell National Rural Transportation Study Center.