Additional reading

Ukrainian traffic rules

In recent years more and more foreigners (as a rule from the European countries) have come to Ukraine in their own cars. It is convenient and advantageous. You can take as many personal things as you wish and they will be at your hand at any time. The tourists are able to visit the most remote parts of the country and enjoy the landscapes and historical monuments of Ukraine. In addition, Ukrainian roads are safe and have rather developed motorway service. There are filling stations with small shops, cafes and restaurants (where you will be offered the dishes that cater to every taste) and modern hotels with the excellent service (they even have deluxe suites) almost at each kilometer of the principal Ukrainian roads.

Ukrainian traffic rules are practically the same as in other civilized countries. There are certain differences but they relate to some definite vehicle categories, like fuel-servicing trucks, which are restricted to drive in some definite city streets. It means that you should not additionally review the Ukrainian traffic rules. Taking into consideration that Ukraine is a member of Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, our road signs and signals are unified and correspond to those you can see in most civilized countries.

According to the Ukrainian traffic rules:

- The maximum speed in the inhabited areas is restricted to 60 km per hour;

- The maximum speed in the residential and pedestrian areas should not exceed 20 km per hour;

-The cars should not exceed 110 km per hour outside the inhabited areas in the dual carriageways and in the roads crossing the settlements which names are presented on the blue background. They should not exceed 90 km per hour in the other roads;

- The maximum speed should not exceed 130 km per hour in the highways with the special signs (two white road lines on the green background);

- Drink driving limit in Ukraine is 0.0%.

It is not necessary to have lights on in the daytime.

Task 1. Read and translate the text .

Task 2.Indentify the main points of the text and discuss them with your fellow-students.

Task 3.Work with partner and make up a dialog on the text.

Unit 9

Text Study: Inventory and Transportation Management

Additional text: Freight transport

Grammar Review: Participle 1 or Participle П

The emphatic construction “It is …that”

Text Study

1. Pre-reading exercises.

Exercise 1.Practice connected reading. Translate the following word-combinations .

Modern transportation system, passenger transport, transport logistic, technical state of autotrack net, the main problem of passenger auto, the foreign market of airlines, major transit tracks, locomotive and carriage depots, social-economic conditions, production and investment activity.

Exercise 2. Memories the essential vocabulary and translate the sentences containing it.

1. average inventory – середній запас товарно-матеріальних запасів або сировини на певний період часу. The key indicators of inventory policy are service level and average inventory.

2. bill of lading -- документ, який є підтвердженням отримання вантажу і зобов»язання доставити його за призначенням.. The bill of lading will have been delivered by tomorrow.

3.cost-of-service strategy -- визначення вартості послуги на основі її собівартості.. The alternative strategy for cost-of-service strategy is value-of-service strategy.

4. carrier freight capacity – місткість, потенціал перевізника. This vehicle has huge carrier freight capacity.

5. destination of shipment – місце призначення перевезення вантажу. The destination of this shipment is New York.

6.depth of commitment – рівень зобов’язань. Can you fulfill the depth of commitment?

7. freight forwarder – експедитор вантажу. He occupies the post of a freight forwarder in our firm.

8. freight transportation structure – структура перевезень вантажу. Freight transportation structure is considered to be incomplete because of the lack of skilled personnel.

9. freight bill – рахунок на перевезення вантажу. Have you already paid the freight bill?

10. responsiveness – швидке реагування, оперативність.The rapid emergence of supply chain arrangements is being driven by four related forces, responsiveness being one of them.

Exercise 3. Read the following international words and give their all possible Ukrainian equivalents.

Transportation, policy, integration, transportation, systems, national, information, reorganization, station, business, transportation, technologies, transit, investment activity, organization, problem of passenger.