AN EVALUATION OF MOTOR CARRIER PERFORMANCE IN MOVING WASHINGTON FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

The performance of the agriculturally exempt sector of the motor carrier industry has been of interest to economists since the regulation of the motor carrier industry. This paper measures the economic performance of motor carriers hauling exempt agricultural commodities, comparing it to earlier findings in the literature. Recent studies were drawn upon to evaluate whether the competitive performance standards were still being met by haulers of exempt perishable agricultural commodities. Pacific Northwest truckers of perishables serves as the focus for rate and cost information for this current evaluation. The paper concludes that motor carries of apples, for the movements evaluated in this study, were found to operate in markets exhibiting the performance associated with a competitive structure. Motor carrier revenues do generally cover average costs of transportation and the pricing behavior responds well to seasonality and competition.

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• Authors:
  • Newkirk, J
  • Casavant, K
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 178-186
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Costs; Economics; Markets; Motor carriers; Performance; Perishables; Pricing; Rates
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Motor Carriers; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00490026
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 1989 12:00AM