Truck Rates for Shipping Cotton in Southeastern United States, Arizona and California

Jack T. Lamkin

No 321991, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Excerpts from the report: Information on the movement of agricultural exempt commodities by motor truck traditionally has been limited to data collected in and applicable to a specific time period. This limitation, especially in projections of transportation costs to users, has presented problems in both the private and public sector with regard to planning, budgeting, and analyzing transportation alternatives. To provide reliable estimates of truck rates for shipping cotton and other agricultural commodities, a method of collecting rates and subsequently developing rate estimating equations was needed. Therefore, in June 1967, the Economic Research Service contracted with the Texas Transportation Institute to determine the feasibility of collecting exempt truck transportation rate data on a continuing basis. This article deals specifically with truck rates for moving cotton in the Southeastern United States and the Arizona-California region. Data were collected by personnel of the Texas Transportation Institute and supplemented by data provided by the USDA.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8
Date: 1969-05
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/321991/files/ERS-417.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uersmp:321991

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.321991

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().