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Exempt motor carriers often provide a number of special services (such as multiple pickups, paying for loading and unloading, and multiple deliveries) at little or no charge. These services allow greater flexibility in the shipping of agricultural commodities. However, these services carry a significant cost for the carrier, and, because the truck service buyer does not bear these costs through an additional charge, he has no incentive to limit the number of services he requires. Because these practices are uncommon in other sectors of trucking, it is proposed that much of the cost of these services represents a resource misallocation. Empirical evidence taken from the Florida produce truck service market is used as an example of the significance of these costs. A second issue addressed is the cost of empty backhauling by returning exempt carriers. In the market studied (the Florida produce market), regulation, rather than a natural commodity flow imbalance, appears to be causing empty backhauling. Although empty backhauling inefficiently increases the average cost of truck service, more importantly, it distorts the values paid for agricultural truck service. Empirical evidence collected from the Florida market is used to show that the distortion of prices is much more important than the average costs of inefficient empty backhauling. (Author)

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Agriculture; Costs; Economics; Exemption; Freight transportation; Motor carriers; Trucking

Economics; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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Jun 30 1983 12:00AM

• DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF STATEWIDE, MULTIMODAL FREIGHT FORECASTING PROCEDURES FOR FLORIDA
• IMPACT OF INCREASED TRUCK WEIGHTS ON RELATIVE COSTS OF MOTOR CARRIERS AND RAILROADS AND POTENTIAL MODAL DIVERSION (ABRIDGMENT)
• MODEL FOR STATEWIDE FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
• PRACTICAL METHODOLOGY FOR FREIGHT FORECASTING
• PRICE RESPONSE OF TRUCK-SERVICE SUPPLIERS IN AN UNREGULATED MARKET
• TRUCK FORECASTS AND PAVEMENT DESIGN (ABDRIDGMENT)
• VALUE OF OVERWEIGHTING TO INTERCITY TRUCKERS