Case Study 5-1 Hardee Transportation Student Name TLMT311‚ American Military University Professor August 16‚ 2012 Hardee Transportation Case Study Issues: Hardee Freight Transportation pickup and delivery (PUD) customers have implemented new hours for their drivers‚ limiting each driver to a 14 hour duty day. The biggest issue is that Hardee’s fright lanes has its hands full with requests from the largest customer‚ and customer pickup and delivery (PUD) operations are
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Hardee Transportation Case Study Introduction to Transportation Management 311 I001 Spr. 12 Michael Upshaw Sunday‚ May 20‚ 2012 Hardee Transportation Case Study I. Major Facts The hours-of-service rules have changed which are impacting the PUD operations. The dispatch centers and bobtail patterns to service customer trailer pools are also being affected by the hours-of-service changes because they were set up on the previous rules. II. Major Problem Due to the hours-of service rules
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Hardee Transportation Case Study Jim O’Brien‚ the manager of the Hardee Transportation. He is concerned about a new request from his largest customers which has caused conflict. The new rule limits the pickup and delivery time to 10 hours maximum for each driver. The dispatch centers and bobtail patterns are also set to reflect the same operation hours. But Hardee’s customers suggest that the PUD hours need to increase to 14 hours to better fulfill the demand. Jim disagrees‚ because most of his
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Case Study 1-1‚ Hardee Transportation Institute of Logistical Management April 3‚ 2013 I. Major Facts Hardee Transportation is a Class I truckload carrier with 12 dispatch centers in the United States. They have partnerships with truckload carriers in Mexico and Canada. Their largest customer is taking new initiatives to maximize manufacturing capacity and minimize stock-out at retail. They’ve operated in a reactive position for the last 75 years. Their tractors have Qualcomm Satellite
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Hardee Transportation Case Study YOUR NAME American Military University Hardee Transportation: I. Major Facts Hardee’s Transportation Manager Jim O’Brien is concerned about a request from the company’s largest customer. Hardee’s current freight pickup and delivery operations are set to reflect for 10 hours of maximum drive time for their drivers. The dispatch centers and bobtail routes are patterned in accordance with the previous hours-of-service rules. Hardees’s customer feels
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5 Modes of Transportation In order to have easy mobility of persons and goods‚ it is necessary to have a sophisticated and widespread transportation system. This system is made up of five primary areas of transportation‚ which are: - Motor vehicles - Railroad transportation - Air transportation - Water transportation - Pipelines Each of these five modes consists of different subsystems which make up the system. Each mode
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Maritime transportation is the backbone of global trading. More than 80% of global product distribution are using ship (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development‚ 2015). Therefore‚ it has several advantages compared to land and air distribution. Compared to air transportation‚ maritime transportation is more efficient in terms of cost and quantity. Maritime transportation also can cover sea and have inter-island connected which are cannot be done by maritime transportation. Indonesia‚ which
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Case 3 Ten Guidelines for Strategic MIS Planning Robert V. Head‚ a consultant on MIS planning‚ provided ten guidelines to help MIS executives who are on the threshold of experimenting with strategic MIS planning: 1. Make provisions in the systems plan for taking small steps rapidly. “Don’t have a plan with goals extending so far into the future that there is no way of tracking it.” 2. Develop alternative plans when significant contradictory trends are discerned in business objectives or technology
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City Council voted 7-1 to banish trucks from Hampton Boulevard and other city streets during certain times of the day. The move is an effort to bring relief to neighborhoods besieged by persistent traffic jams on the road‚ which narrows to four confined lanes as it approaches the Midtown Tunnel. Yet many residents said the city did not go far enough. “Most of the container truck traffic is heading to or from Norfolk International Terminals. Virginia Port Authority leaders say a ban would increase
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This case is talking about an executive retreat. It was introduced by John Matthews who was a executive had been selected to attend the two-and-a-half-week retreat. The retreat was more like a competition about academic and athletic. The team members should not only get know each other and cooperate with teammates but also need to compete with others. The whole participants were broken into five groups and their aim was to win the competition. There are several sessions about academic and athletic
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