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The Adequacy of Trucking Service Supplies for Produce: Trends in the 1980s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Richard Beilock ,
William Dunton  and
Paul Kepler
Richard Beilock
Affiliation:
University of Florida
William Dunton
Affiliation:
Agricultural Marketing Service of the United States Department of Agriculture
Paul Kepler
Affiliation:
Agricultural Marketing Service of the United States Department of Agriculture
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Abstract

Over 90 percent of interstate produce movements are by truck. In recent years, concerns have been raised regarding the adequacy of motor carrier services. Reasons for these concerns include the possibility of increased costs or service erosions resulting from relaxed economic regulations, an eroding road infrastructure, increasing congestion, more stringent safety regulations, demographic trends suggesting the onset of an increasingly severe driver shortage, and declines in rail capacity devoted to produce haulage. In this study, trends in the adequacy of trucking services for trucking during the 1980s was examined employing data sets developed by the USDA regarding haulage from five growing areas to six metropolitan areas across the United States, and a case study based on over 9,000 interviews with drivers hauling Rorida produce, conducted between 1982 and 1989. The results of the study suggest that there have been no erosions in service adequacies.

Keywords

fruits and vegetablesproducetransportationtrucking
Type
Articles
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , December 1992 , pp. 95 - 103
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1992

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