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Innovative Methods of Milk Transport: Double-Bottoms and TOFC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Edward Karpoff  and
Fred C. Webster
Edward Karpoff
Affiliation:
University of Vermont
Fred C. Webster
Affiliation:
University of Vermont
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Abstract

Costs involved in double-bottoms (tandem trailers) and TOFC (trailer-on-flatcar; piggyback) were modeled and compared with conventional over-the-road transport of bulk milk from northern Vermont in single trailers. Both modes were found to be both cost-effective and fuel-sparing alternatives to conventional transport.

Since the study's completion, although not as a direct result of it, two shippers have adopted these innovations. One of them (using double-bottoms) has budgeted savings even larger than those claimed in our study.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , April 1984 , pp. 60 - 64
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station Journal Article 519.

References

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