“People think about trucking as a meat and potatoes business where you pick something up and then deliver it to a destination, but it’s not that simple, it’s a highly competitive business, and in order to thrive, firms need to implement innovations that will give them a competitive edge.” - Mike Ludwick, Bison’s vice-president of corporate services. (Zubriski)
Introduction: - Bison transport is the one of the top most award winning transport. We are the most modern fleets in the industry with latest technologies. Bison transport is North America’s safest fleet and one of the largest carriers in Canada today. We provide our customers with reliable and value creating supply chain solutions. Bison transport was incorporated on 1969 by Duncan M. Jessiman. Bison had started with just 18 tractors and 32 employees and now they have more than 1400 tractors and about 2600 employees. (Bison Transport)
Case Background: - In transportation industry, one of the biggest challenge is how to deal with carbon dioxide emissions and how to reduce the energy. According to the Natural Resources Canada, one third of the greenhouse emission is because of transportation industry.
Key Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: - Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities. It is mainly considered because of transportation industry. As we know combustion of diesel and gasoline to transport people or goods from one place to another emits harmful smoke which is termed
Industries and Electrical generation are estimated to produce “a little over 50%” of greenhouse emissions, making it the biggest problem (Petterson
Averitt Express is a well-known transportation company based in Cookeville, Tennessee. They are one of the premier truckload and less-thantruckload providers of freight transportation services in North America. The company 's fleet consists of more than 3,500 trucks, all of which serve thousands of points throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Averitt also provides international transportation services to roughly 100 different countries and more than 300 foreign destinations around the world. The company competes with several transportation companies such as Swift, J.B. Hunt Transport, Conway, Landstar System, and Schneider National. The transportation is facing a lot of changes, one of them being able to compete with their competitors by beating their cost, but staying profitable themselves. This marketing strategy will discuss the marketing plan to reach potential customers in the West and North West coast of this country.
- Explain the structures of the road and rail cargo industries and the current issues facing the industries.
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate three technology opportunities associated with the transportation and logistics industry. With today’s constantly evolving business environment, consumers are placing demand on businesses of all industries, and they want products and services faster, with more added value, and delivered immediately. Nevertheless, customers are smarter by requiring more quality, innovation, and choice, and at the same time wanting to spend less money and effort. Consequently, every transportation business has to remain highly competitive in researching and developing innovative cost-cutting techniques in order to save money.
A disruption in trucking for just several days would impact numerous industries and markets as well as significantly impact the safety and well-being of Americans. Not only does trucking provide vital services by transporting essential products, but it also contributes to the economy as a thriving and growing industry. The long-distance freight trucking industry employed over 1,107,000 in 2015 with forecasted growth for the next five years. However, the industry is voicing its concern over a shortage of drivers. Contribution of truck transportation as a whole to the gross output since the recession in 2009 has steadily increased to 332.4 billion in 2014 with a forecast of continued growth for the foreseeable future. The trucking industries input to the Gross Domestic Product from 2010 to 2014 was .8% annually. The contribution of long-distance freight trucking to the GDP during 2015 was over $63,000,000 with anticipated increase for the next five years. The trucking industry in its entirety appears to have only minimally invested in R&D with the most recent records indicating approximately 166 million spent in 2007. Much of the data on R&D is confidential. Aside from GPS and equipment monitoring devices there has not been much new technology introduced due in large part because the industry is mature. Only time will tell what the future holds with Europe’s testing of self-driving semi-trailer
Motorbus are the largest component in the field industry of United States. In 1980, 1022 of 1055 transportation companies are using motorbus as a services. Compare to the passenger’s trip, Motorbus Transit has grew by 66 percent in the industry.
Greenhouse emissions are made up of all types of gasses such as methane, nitrous oxide, and the leading emission: Carbon dioxide (N/A). “The standard ways of living has increased, as energy supply is the leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions. Transportation also deals with a large amount of greenhouse emissions being released into our solar system. Starting in 1950, greenhouse gasses started to increase dramatically. This
The transport sector is one of the main global consumers of fossil fuel related energy in the world. Unfortunately fossil fuel is non-renewable source of energy and the production of oil has been fluctuating in the recent past. At the same time, combustion of petroleum related fuel release greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide that destroy the ozone layer and result to further environmental degradation. Therefore to work
Today carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human actives in the world. Carbon dioxide accounts for nearly three quarter of the greenhouse gas emission. The main source of carbon dioxide emission in the United States are electricity, transportation, and industry. Electricity has a significant amount of emission due to the fossil fuels needed to generate electricity, to power homes, businesses, and industries. The second largest cause of carbon dioxide emission is transportation. Transportation accounts for 31% total of carbon dioxide emission in the United States. Lastly industry is another large part in the emission rising. Many industry process carbon dioxide and the emission through chemical reaction that do not involve combustion. These are the leading carbon dioxide emission today in the world.
The transportation industry is crucial to society’s operation and influences the lives of nearly every one of us. We use it to get to work, to school, to the store, and to complete countless other tasks.
There are four major gases that cause the greenhouse effect. These chemicals are Chloroflourocarbons (CFC’s), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), and Methane (CH4). “CFC’s destroy ozone molecules by the thousands, causing a smaller amount of ozone in the ozone layer. This allows more UV rays hit the Earth’s surface, causing a slight increase of the Earth’s temperature. The more ozone molecules destroyed, the more UV rays enter the Earth’s atmosphere, making the temperature even higher”(What Is The Greenhouse Effect).
CO2 emissions are the main greenhouse gases that are of concern (Singh). Since there are many greenhouse gases, this is the most abundant in the atmosphere after water vapor, and is the main focus of all global climate change debates since it is the gas that
The greenhouse effect is one of the important issues to make global warming become worse. The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet 's atmosphere warms the planet 's surface to a temperature above what it would be in the absence of its atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the largest number of
Information about competitive transportation services will be gathered. Questionnaires will be distributed to students and faculty of Kent State University in order to gather customer insight. Also, a financial consulting firm will be hired to provide professional assistance.
The transportation sector is continually evolving. Whether moving people or products by land, sea, or air, all transportation strategies need to balance proficient network design and operations with rising intricacy, government supervision, environmental accountability, security risks and demands for flexibility and performance from consumers. Transportation solutions saturate all facets of business and comprise about ten percent of all economic action. Global economic disruption and explosive fuel pricing are driving the need for more restricted operations, ground-breaking service offerings, and inspired business models. The capability to manage change and drive continual process improvements are vital to transportation enterprises that want to uphold competitive advantage and survivability (Transportation and Logistics, n.d.).