Data on the cost of highway freight per mile and per ton-mile are now available in the Financial and Operating Statistics (F&OS) maintained by the American Trucking Associations and the Blue Book of Trucking Companies maintained by Transportation Technical Services of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Skimming and Scanning. Your perceptions of any written text are deepened through familiarity. One of the most effective methods for beginning the kind of thoughtful reading necessary for academic work is to get a general overview of the text before beginning to read it in detail. By first skimming a text, you can get a sense of its overall logical progression.
Scanning The Business Environment. Introduction. Scanning the business environment is the first step in effective business planning or development of business strategy. Effective frameworks and tools include PEST, PESTLE, SLEPT, STEPE etc. Scanning the business or operating environment helps to provide the decision makers with the context within which to make an informed decision. Often in business we look in-wards, we undertake a SWOT analysis and then make a decision based upon that.