The Canada-United States Transborder Trucking Industry, Regulation, Competitiveness and Cabotage Issues
The Canada-United States Transborder Trucking Industry, Regulation, Competitiveness and Cabotage Issues

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Published: 1911

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The trucking industries in Canada and the United States have been deregulated on national bases for many years now. Transborder deregulation, however, has not yet been achieved; even in the midst of trade agreements designed to allow for greater ease in moving goods across the Canada-U.S. border. The existence of cabotage regulations, which limit the transport activity of a foreign truck driver and his tractor-trailer while on domestic soil, is a major impediment to transborder deregulation. Chapter 1 provides a history of trucking regulation and deregulation in Canada and the United States along with a discussion concerning how the Canada-U.S. Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement have brought the issue of transborder trucking to the fore. Cabotage regulations are carefully outlined and evaluated while the recent "reforms" to these regulations are appraised in the light of potential efficiency gains to transborder truckers. Because of the complicated nature of these regulations, a survey of Canadian trucking firms is provided in order to gauge understanding, compliance and attitudes toward reform. The results obtained impact on the economic theory of regulation that, in general, states that firms understand, and even influence, the body of regulations under which they operate. In chapter 2, a model of the for-hire trucking industry is developed in order to establish the welfare gain accruing from deregulation. The model is also used to show the further welfare gain that is expected to arise from cabotage reform. A supply-side approach is developed using the for-hire industry combined with a representaive trucking firm. The demand-side is developed combining the fronthaul and backhaul markets so that inferences with respect to cabotage reform may be had. The combined supply and demand models provide a useful means for comparing the welfare effects of regulatory change. The implications of the complete model are extended, in chapter 3, by use of.

Heavy Traffic
Heavy Traffic

Author: Daniel Madar

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0774842350

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Canada and the United States exchange the world's highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. Heavy Traffic examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this vital industry. Before deregulation, restrictive entry rules had fostered two separate national highway transportation markets, and most international traffic had to be exchanged at the border. When the United States deregulated first, the imbalance between its opened market and Canada's still-restricted one produced a surprisingly difficult bilateral dispute. American deregulation was motivated by domestic incentives, but the subsequent Canadian deregulation blended domestic incentives with transborder rate comparisons and concerns about trade competitiveness. Daniel Madar shows that deregulation created a de facto regime of free trade in trucking services. Removing regulatory barriers has enabled Canadian and American carriers to follow the expansion of transborder traffic that began with the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and continues with NAFTA. The services available with deregulated trucking have also supported sweeping changes in industrial logistics. As transborder traffic has surged, the two countries' carriers -- from billion-dollar corporations to family firms -- have exploited the latitude provided by deregulation. This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the policy processes and economic conditions that led to trucking deregulation. As a study in public policy formation and the international effects of reform, it will be of interest to students and scholars of political economy, international relations, and transportation.

The Economic Impact of Transborder Trucking Regulations
The Economic Impact of Transborder Trucking Regulations

Author: John T. Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1135678308

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Estimates the economic impact that past U.S. transborder trucking regulations have had on the number of inbound trucks, inbound truck load characteristics, and the infrastructure along the U.S. international borders. Rooted in economic theory and tested with historical data John T. Jones' study provides policymakers with possible outcomes for the transportation issues involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A Comparison of Trucking Productivity in Canada and the United States, 1978-88
A Comparison of Trucking Productivity in Canada and the United States, 1978-88

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Published: 1990

Total Pages: 104

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Comparison of the historic and current productivity performance of the Canadian and United States for-hire trucking industries, and discussion of the implications for competition for transborder traffic. The report discuses the creation of a reasonably comparable set of data from disparate sources in Canada and the U.S., then develops time series of key productivity indicators for both countries from 1978-88, assessing differences in national and sectoral performance within each country. The evolution of key input prices is considered to trace the efficacy of both productivity changes and other factors on costs/rates. The performance of the national trucking industries of Canada and the U.S. are described and the implications of this for transborder competition are considered. The study estimates the magnitude of transborder trucking, in particular historic growth and recent (1988) traffic structure for Canadian-domiciled carriers, and considers the possible impact of truck weight and dimension regulations, economic regulation, cabotage rules, truck regulations such as safety, trucking regulations such as dangerous goods, other regulations such as labour, truck technology, and freight flows on future domestic and transborder productivity and competitiveness.

All Roads Lead to Rome? - a Comparison of For-hire Trucking Productivity in Canada and the United States, 1978-1988
All Roads Lead to Rome? - a Comparison of For-hire Trucking Productivity in Canada and the United States, 1978-1988

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Published: 1991

Total Pages: 13

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Competition between the Canadian and American for-hire trucking industries has been one of the major transportation issues of the post-deregulation era. This paper presents some preliminary conclusions and outstanding research issues concerning the productivity performance of the Canadian and U.S. for-hire trucking industries in the period following deregulation in the United States and ending with the first year following the passage of the Motor Vehicle Transportation Act (1988). Among the issues encountered in the course of the research were differences between Canada and the United States in the reporting of broker activities, differences in carrier classification, and the lack of a single all-encompassing measure of trucking productivity which is adequate for all segments of the industry, in particular the limited value of weight-based productivity measures in a period of changing commodity densities. The study considered a number of factors which may affect the productivity of either the domestic and/or transborder trucking industries. These were truck weight and dimension regulations, economic regulation, cabotage rules, truck regulations (safety, emissions), trucking regulations (dangerous goods), other regulations (highway, labour), truck technology, and freight flows. In particular, we attempted to identify factors which might give an advantage to either Canada or the United States. While most of these factors clearly affect domestic productivity, our assessment is that in general the impact will be comparable on both sides of the border. One possibe exception is trucking weight and dimension regulations, where it is probable, depending on the decisions of American legislators, that the increases in limits will be greater in the U.S. However, the effects of the RTAC weights and dimensions regulations are still working their way through the Canadian for-hire fleet. In addition, the impact of liberalized American regulations on transborder competition are by no means evident. For the covering abstract of the Conference, see IRRD Abstract No. 807771.

Competition in Transportation
Competition in Transportation

Author: National Transportation Act Review Commission (Canada)

Publisher: The Commission

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 304

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This report is the result of a 12-month effort. It provides recommendations which are appropriate to restore the health and ensure the competitiveness of the nation's transportation system in its service to individual Canadians and Canadian businesses. It discusses the impact of reform; impacts on safety, environment, and labour-management relations; the carriers (highway, air, railway, and marine); the challenge of keeping competition alive; transportation policy and the role of government; and the legislation and the agency.