"Drive Less, Save More"

In the modern world, we can see every single activity of movement will involve transportation such as vehicle and truck. But we do you realize that the cost of transportation is the most critical factors that must be face by everyone, either people in logistic activity or citizen. “Drive Less, Save More” also is the technique to minimize the cost of transportation and also it help to reduce global warming. This is because transportation can cause pollution that can lead unpredictable event occurs such as flood and earthquakes. So that, we must understand how to implement “Drive Less, Save More” in our daily life.

Actually, “Drive Less Save More” give people inspiration how to maximize using their private transportation, how to fully utilize using transportation system from economic and environmental perspective. There are several solution that will explain this such as using public transportation,carpooling and bicycles.

Public transportation is economical. Why? This is because taking public transportation is cheaper than using own transportation, and if they have their own car, many cost they have to cover such as money for service, repairs and insurance. So that, taking public transportation are more efficient if you are student and also it can provide discount. For logistic field, it is better to minimize using own transportation and try to fully utilize the company that provide the fright-forwarder service to carry their goods.

By using public transportation, they can reduce traffic congestion when the people willing to use public transportation rather than own transport. Its can reduce the rate of pollution happen come from vehicle because there are less car driving on the roads and its able to keep environment green.

Next solution of “Drive Less Save More” is carpooling. Its also known as ride-sharing, car-sharing and lift sharing. Its can give environmental impact which current research prove that the average of car releases ten thousand pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. An overabundance of CO2 in the atmosphere will lead global warming happen. By implement carpooling, its can reduce this effect toward our earth by reducing the number of car on the road. Carpooling also can saves our money too because they sharing the cost of driving in one car. Driving one car saves on gasoline, tolls, parking and vehicle maintenance. In logistics field, we can use the consolidation method in order to minimize the using of transportation by collecting the small shipment and convert to the larger shipment. This also can fully utilize the space in delivery of their shipment.

As human, we must realize that our earth was suffer because of our act, so we can use “Drive Less, Save More” as a solution to save our environment and also save our money to not be waste anymore in future.

PACKAGING OF GOODS IN TRANSPORTATION

Packaging of goods in transportation are importance that must be aware by manufacturer or shipper because customer are really care about their goods condition when the goods are arrive to their hand. So manufacturer/shipper must do something about packaging in order to maintain customer satisfaction and make sure their production running smooth. First we will give our opinion about purpose packaging of goods in transportation. 

The purpose is safety/protection because its can act as shield toward goods to against temperature extreme, humidity and vibration impact during transit. Packaging also make labeling and identification of product either type, quantity and description more easy to be find and arrange to delivery or store in inventory for inbound and outbound activity. Its also can increase the sale by using unique method of display on packaging to attract customer to buy their product.as manufacturer/shipper also must alert about environmental factor,so their must provide packaging that easy to disposal or recycle in order to maintain environmental condition. Packaging also can make goods easy to manage,usually manufacturer use box because box are cubic capacity,its transportable also can fully utilize of space either in delivery or storage.

Next is packaging design which mean the design of a package is the result of the amalgamation of inputs from the corporate staff as necessary to accomplish the objectives of the product packaging. First is production. This element must address whether the current production capability is adaptable to the product configuration, the effects of the configuration on the ability of production to meet customer orders and whether new production facilities might be necessary. Next is materials handling. The package should ideally, permit manual handling without physical harm. The packaging should accommodate the standard quantities(easy to calculate). Other than that storage also include in packaging design which is the packaging should be constructed so as to discourage inventory pilferage.

They have two  main types of packaging. First is consumer packaging. Customer packaging provides customers with information about the product and promotes the product through the use of color and shape. Packaging design focuses on customers convenience, market appeal, retail shelf utilization and product protection. In general, ideal consumer packaging makes very poor logistical packaging. Other than that, consumer packaging also provides information like ingredients, suggested way to cook, expiry date etc. Second is industrial packaging. Industrial packaging are more on logistics emphasis. It provides less information such as quantity, manufacturer, fragility etc. The basis color of this packaging is white and brown.

Last but not least about packaging is benefit of good packaging. The benefit are lighter packaging may save transportation cost. Second is careful planning of packaging may allow better space utilization of warehousing and transportation. Other than that, more protective packaging may reduce damage and requirements for special handling. Use of returnable containers provides cost saving as well as environmental benefits through the reduction of waste of products.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROAD FREIGHT

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Assalamualaikum and Salam Sejahtera to all readers of our blog which is "Logistical Supremacy" that creates and gives to you the information that we have know and also gives our opinion about the topic that our lecturer ask us to discuss it. As a topic of our post today is about the characteristics of the road freight.

There are 5 modes of transportation in Malaysia. There are Road transportation, Rail transportation, Air transportation, Sea transportation and also the Pipeline as we already explain on our first post. So, on this post, we focus more on the characteristics of the road freight or also known as the road transportation.

There are 2 types of road transportation which is private carrier and also the public carrier. Private carrier is focus more on the transportation provide by their own company. Other than that, for the public carrier, there provide the service to any company that do not have their own transportation to transport the good to the point of consumption.

Road transportation or road freight also more focus on their truck. Truck is the common transportation that we use to transport the goods which using the road. There are 2 types of truck which is truckload (TL) and also less-than truckload (LTL).

Road freight provide accessibility. This is mean that the truck can access all the road that have provided to reach or to deliver the goods in front of our door. This service we called it as door-to-door service. It may take some delay to transport the goods using this service, but the road freight have their specialization that we actually do not know.

Compared to the Air transportation, road transportation have lower price. This is because, Air transportation only transport the high value of goods such as diamond and other emergency goods. So that, they may charge the high fees for each of their using this transportation. However, the road transportation have high fees compared to the Sea transportation. This is because, the shipment of the goods which consolidate it and transport the low-value goods.

Other than that, truck also fully utilize because of their packaging of every goods. The packaging is the main role of the utilization space. If not fully utilize the space, the shipment of the goods may at the high risk of damage.

In conclusion, the road transportation is the most common use in our country. This is because road transportation can access all the road in Malaysia. Therefore the road transportation have an economic prices.

THE RATIONAL TRANSPORTATION OF REGULATION AND POLICIES

There are many rational transportation of regulation and policies in Malaysia. Our region must have follow and obey the regulation and policies that the government was fixed it. First, the rational of transportation of regulation and policies is increase safety public users. For instant, the public users must follow the speed limits of the road uses. Normally, the speed limits is 90 km/h to 110 km/h to maintain their speed. Other than that is the heavy transport must use the left side road for give the smoothly and easier for another transport to drive. The emergencies road line also important for us to remember and make sure that there is no car or other transportation use that road line for their safety .

        After that, the traffic jams also have been most of the issues  of the regulation and policies in Malaysia. The public users must follow the direction and the schedule when the day seasonal comes to decrease the traffic jams happen. Usually, it will jams because of the user of highway could not follow the scheduled and become a problem for other public user.

    Next, is the causes of maintaining subsidization for Malaysia people. For instant, any car from outside the Malaysia must use the RON 95 for maintaining our subsidization for our Malaysian people.

The fair competition also also be the important part for the economics Malaysia, causes of the rate that had been fixed price.

     Furthermore, the rational from environment. The public user must respect the other public users for instant, they cannot horn the car at the Hospital, cannot throw the rubbish from the window at the road and will fine for RM 500, cannot do the open burning, cannot step at grass and drive slowly at the front school.

          Moreover, for the social contribution is the rational for this is the public user may get the good situation and the easily for the other public user and get the safety properly if our region follow and obey the instructions given from government.

          last but not least, the develop or continue vital transport services. The reasons to fulfill customers satisfaction through quality of services provided by transportation system becomes more effective in services. The improvement of transportation services will increase the number of public transport users,therefor,reduced congestion and minimized accidents. The plan and make decisions.Regulation and policy helps government to plan and make decision which is considered important to country and public. Government may control the number of taxis or commercial vehicles operated in the country through licensing.

COST OF TRANSPORTATION IN MALAYSIA

Assalamualaikum and salam sejahtera and salam 1 Malaysia to all my blogger readers. We create this blog on purpose to fulfill our assignment under course Management of Transportation that has been lead by Sir Mohd Zamri Yahya. Based on the title above is about the Cost of Transportation In Malaysia. So that, we want to give our opinion about this topic.

As you know,Malaysia have 5 mode of transportation which is road, railway, air, water and last but not least is pipeline. First, we will explain more about each mode of transportation. First, Road Transportation. Road Transportation is the most commonly used in Malaysia because of accessible and ideally suited for transporting goods over the distances, where the distance is near or far. Road transportation is not only economical, but also quicker. It is also can provide door to door service which is collect and transport the goods from seller’s warehouse and deliver it right at the door step of the customers. Second is Air Transportation. Air Transportation offers the advantage of speed and can be used for long-distance transport and reach the destination in very less time. It is also vital during emergencies such as floods. So that, foods, medicine and other requirements can be supplied to victims with the help of helicopters. Third is Sea Transportation. Sea Transportation is the least expensive and slowest mode of freight transport. It is generally used to transport heavy products over long distances when speed is not an issue and it can move products all over the world. Forth is Railway Transportation. Railway Transportation is typically used for long-distance shipping and less expensive than air transportation. It is also cheaper than road transportation. This is because of the goods transport in bulk quantities are carried from a desired destination to the other. The last mode of transportation is Pipeline. Pipeline which is used to transport of liquids and gases. They also can be used to deliver certain products such as petroleum, chemicals and slurry coal which in Malaysia, company that commonly use this transportation is PETRONAS Gas Berhad.

Variety of mode transportation are good for national economies growth and also make logistic activity running smoothly, but the are implication that lead increasing cost of transportation in Malaysia. The main factor that lead this problem is core resource to move every mode of transportation which is fuel. Fuel cannot be renewable and become decrease day to day. Current issue in Malaysia is the increasing price of fuel, so this give impact of increasing price per unit of goods and also the cost of transportation. This not only burden to supplier or company that use transportation to delivery goods, but this also burden customer to pay extra to cover the cost. 

Second implication is distance. If the transportation is delivery in fixed capacity, it will not effect much of the cost of transportation, but it will give impact if there are not fully utilize the space of the mode. Malaysia geographical also become the factor of distance such as inland area in Sabah and Sarawak make the shipper difficult to delivery goods there. So that, the cost of transportation will increase according to the place and destination. This also depends on customers willingness to pay different rates for the same capacity or service. 

Packaging also can be considered as an inevitable factors which needs due consideration before goods are transported from one place to another. The mode of transportation are very often influences the type of packaging required. Different mode will need different packaging for goods and the packaging will change the weight and volume which will increase the cost of transportation.