The Actuality And Development Of Road Freight Transportation

The development of world economic globalization and the application of high technology improve the increase of the volume of the international import and export trade, and require the road freight transportation superlatively. The demands of client changed higher and more particularly. The competition for market changed more ardent. These changes accelerate the conversion and advance of transportation model. From the single transportation demand to integrated demand in supply chain mode, the demands of client were advanced.Thus it can be seen, whether in China or in the world, the step of logistics development changed faster. The traditional road freight transportation enterprise must catch hold of the chance and transit to the modern logistics, or else it would be eliminated through selection.In the real life, there are some traditional road freight transportation enterprise were accommodated to the demand of market, they have already offered modern logistics serve triumphantly through the lucubration of the logistics theory. However, most enterprises are walking in difficulty for some reasons. Though traditional road freight transportation enterprise have controlled the transportation of logistics, but in fact, logistics includes purchasing, loading and unloading, handling, storing, packaging, distribution processing, selling, dealing with information and so on. Moreover the logistics is an integrated subject, it concerns economics, management, operational research, engineering science, it is applied in every procedure in the service.Traditional road freight transportation enterprise has no these functions. So there are many questions in the conversion from traditional road freight transportation enterprise to the modern logistics enterprise. This paper would settle these questions.This paper analyses the actuality of road freight transportation enterprise and brings forward questions exist in them, and then indicates their way is to develop modern logistics service. This paper is major in some questions that should be noticed in developing logistics service. These questions include building up the service consciousness of client should be paramount, stepping by stepping in proper sequence on the situation of China, fetching in foreign capital, training logistics person with ability, reforging or reforming of enterprise's operation flowing, and training their core competence. And then discussed the modes which is adopted by various enterprises. Some puny road freight transportation enterprise is adapted to developing functional logistics, and some powerful enterprise could develop integrated logistics service.