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Innovative Methods of Milk Transport: Double-Bottoms and TOFC

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  • Karpoff, Edward
  • Webster, Fred C.

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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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  • Karpoff, Edward & Webster, Fred C., 1984. "Innovative Methods of Milk Transport: Double-Bottoms and TOFC," Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 13(1), pages 1-5, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:nareaj:159269
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.159269
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