New Trucking Hours of Service
On July 1, 2013, a new trucking hours of service rule will take effect in the United States that will have important implications for over-the-road trucking companies and their professional drivers. To gain some fresh insights into these implications, the purpose of this paper was to use the three value system comprised of law, morality, and social responsibility in the application of different ethical principles in the analysis of the response by Swift Transportation and Werner Enterprise to the new hours of service rule. To this end, the paper presents a review of the relevant peer-reviewed, scholarly, governmental and organizational literature in these areas, followed by a summary of the research, important findings, personal opinions and recommendations in the paper's conclusion.
Research Paper
Undergraduate
France, Haiti, Latin America, Italy, and Germany: historical and political contexts
By definition, a nation-state is generally considered as a nation with a sovereign government placed within clearly-defined geographical boundaries, such as Germany and Italy, while being inhabited by people who…
Research Paper
Undergraduate
Does the United States Government Have Environmental Ethics?
This paper is about the United States environmental policies since its creation. It focuses on a range of issues, from fisheries, to hunting, to overhunting, acid raid, and environmental use due to railroads, power generation, coal mining, and more. It is an all encompassing paper that is intended to address the basic problem of environmental ethics and how they have developed as a result of destruction to the environment in the past.