Argument Essay 3-Good Intentions Roadways Vs Appian Roadways

The following appeared in a memo from the vice president of a company that builds shopping malls around the country.

"The surface of a section of Route 101, paved just two years ago by Good Intentions Roadways, is now badly cracked with a number of dangerous potholes. In another part of the state, a section of Route 40, paved by Appian Roadways more than four years ago, is still in good condition. In a demonstration of their continuing commitment to quality, Appian Roadways recently purchased state-of-the-art paving machinery and hired a new quality-control manager. Therefore, I recommend hiring Appian Roadways to construct the access roads for all our new shopping malls. I predict that our Appian access roads will not have to be repaired for at least four years."

Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.

The statement appeared in a memo from the vice president, claims since Route 101 has been established only two years back by Good Intentions Roadways, is badly cracked where as Route 40 which has been established four years back by Appian Roadways but still in a good condition, therefore all of us should recommend Appian Roadways for all the new constructions, the above statement does not provide enough reason to accept the claim on the basis of following arguments.

First of all author has compared two routes irrespective of their locations and the volume of traffic flowing over them. There are many aspects which could cause dangerous holes on the surface. We cannot blame the constructing company only for its damages. The holes may be as a result of the heavy traffic which passes through Route 101, while there may be small volume of traffic on Route 40 build by Appoint Railway. Route 101 may be located nearby a industrial area due to which there is flow of trucks and lorries carrying huge amount of material and machineries or it may be possible that there is huge flow of public buses whole the day. Contrarily Route 40 may be located in an residential area where there is a small traffic of personal vehicles.

Secondly author stated that Route 101 has been damaged after a period of two years, which is a long period. If it had been damaged after few months we would have been blamed the Good Intentions Roadways not to be good in providing its services. Any natural disaster like flood may have resulted damage to route 101.

Third there is no evidence of the maintenance. Route 40 may have proper maintenance on regular basis, on the other hand there is no proper maintenance of Route 101, due to which the initial little damages have gone worst after a long period of two years.

Fourth, Moreover the author did not mentioned any of the other route which has been built by Good Intention Roadways, a single road is not a good of representative of all roads build by it , we need to have a sample out of roads built by Good Intentions Roadways.

The next point is the new quality manager hired by Appian Roadways may not be reliable because there is no evidence of better performance and efficiency. Neither his professional experience has been mentioned; he may be a fresh graduate, who is naïve in his experience. Moreover there is no evidence of work done by Appian Roadways after hiring of new manager and new technology, on the basis of which we can say it will be performing better in future as well.

One of the important points the author has missed is that, there may be other companies which would be performing far better than Appian Roadways, which could be hired for the construction of the road. There is no statistics of the various companies which must be performing in the country.

Thus it can evident that there is not enough reasoning given to believe whether the Appian Roadways must be hired for further construction of roads; therefore more research is required to prove whether Appian is one of the reliable Roadways to be recommended.