Recently added articles from Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics, and Policy:
RLA BARGAINING DILEMMA: DO COURTS REALLY FOLLOW WILLIAMS?
Jan 01, 2007; Elliott, Daniel R ... The right of carriers1 under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) to unilaterally change the rates of pay, rules or working conditions before reaching an initial collective-bargaining agreement with a newly-certified union seemed well settled after the Supreme Court's decision in 1942 in Williams v ....
EARMARKS: THE WEAK LINK IN HIGHWAY FUNDING
Jan 01, 2007; Lavisky, Matthew ... "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."1 - P.J. O'Rourke The Highway Trust Fund, the Mass Transit Account and the problems accompanying them, are the result of a century of innovation and technology in transportation, coupled ...
BRINGING HARMONY TO NORTH AMERICA'S TRUCK SIZE AND WEIGHT REGULATIONS
Jan 01, 2007; Mercier, Trent J ... The economies of the Canada, Mexico and the United States are closely tied through trade, especially since passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which lifted tariffs and trade barriers on goods and services. For example, nearly $1 billion dollars of merchandise moves between Canada ...
SPEED GOVERNORS AND THE COMING PUBLIC DEBATE
Jan 01, 2007; Snyder, Patricia N; Frank, Wright J ... A debate is brewing over the proposed mandatory use of speed governors - devices that set the maximum speed of a vehicle's engine - on large trucks. On Valentine's Day 2006, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) endorsed a proposal to cap truck speeds at 68 mph by requiring engine ...
CHINA: A SLEEPING GIANT ARISES; IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. LOGISTICIANS
Jan 01, 2007; Johnson, James C ... When China wakes, it will shake the world. - Napoleon Bonaparte1 During the summer of 1996, I was a tourist in China. I traveled to the Middle Kingdom2 to view its vast historical monuments, such as the Great Wall of China (circa 2 1 5 B.C.3) ,the Ming Dynasty Tombs (circa 1 ...
RAILROAD SAFETY: AN UNFINISHED INVESTMENT
Jan 01, 2007; Ullmann, John E ... Here lie the remains of Patrick Dunn, He raced for the crossing, but the engine won. - Anonymous After almost 180 years of railroading in America, and after what has turned out to be decades of decline and neglect, the issue of railroad safety is still with us, including the ...
RAILROAD SAFETY: AN UNFINISHED INVESTMENT COMMENTARY
Jan 01, 2007; Gamst, Frederick C ... John Ullmann, in the preceding article, provides thought-provoking presentations in his article about safety on U.S. railroads. Yes, the rail community (railroads, rail unions and government) shows denial at times - especially at the highest organizational level - but that is true for many ...
AFTER OTTER TAIL, MOST RATE REGULATION IS KAPUT
Jan 01, 2007; McBride, Michael F ... In Otter Tail Power Co. v. BNSF Railway Company,1 the Surface Transportation Board (STB) denied the complaint of Otter Tail, filed in January 2002, that the rate charged by BNSF to transport coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin to Otter Tail's Big Stone Plant in South Dakota exceeds a ...
ANTITRUST: IMPECCABLE CONCLUSION IN DAGHER
Jan 01, 2007; Bridgeman, Lester M ... Antitrust, the quarterly publication of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, and always interesting, outdoes itself in its fall 2006 issue with well-written and useful articles on the Class Action Fairness Act (beware of federal statutes that mention "fairness," "patriotism," or those assigned ...
All About Railroading
Jan 01, 2007; Wilner, Frank N ... All About Railroading By William C. Vantuono Simmons-Boardman Books Omaha, Neb. Paperback, 112 pp., color photos, $28.95 If the name William Vantuono is not familiar, then you haven't been reading the bible of railroading - Railway Age magazine, of which Vantuono is editor. And if you ...
The Renaissance of the Railroad: A Chronicle of the Transformation of the Century
Jan 01, 2007; Wilner, Frank N ... The Renaissance of the Railroad: A Chronicle of the Transformation of the Century By Frank Richter AuthorHouse Bloomington, Indiana Paperback, 247pp., $10.75 For longer than most readers of this Journal have been alive, Frank Richter has been writing about railroads - as a founder of ...