An overview of the domestic transportation and distribution industry - its scope, focus, and role in business and society. Modes of transportation and their delivery systems related to land, water, and air are compared and contrasted. Transportation costs, logistics, rate tariffs, classifications, and the role of governmental agencies are examined.
Attention is focused on emerging safety and environmental considerations of the industry.
A study of class rates, classification exceptions, commodity rates, classification rules, routing, rate negotiation, tariff bureaus and associations, freight territories, accessorial charges, and tariff application and interpretation. The relationships between regulatory bodies and transportation companies and shippers. The Interstate Commerce Act, practices and procedures of the ICC and other regulatory bodies. The impact of deregulation. The regulation, administration, and application of freight loss and damage claims, laws and principles.