Guide to Intermodal Transport in the US
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003JH853K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Positioning containers and trailers, How Positioning is accomplished, and the Equipment used, are all reviewed.Governmental Involvement: From Certification, Safety and Weight Constraints to a brief on State and Federal concerns. Transporting freight, whether goods or people by two or more different types of carrier (modes) from one origin to one destination is intermodal transport. This background was totally transport in trucking, railroads, industry and government. The term (intermodal transport) is further refined for the great majority of movements to mean freight loaded into truck trailers (semi-trailers) and trailer like vehicles (containers).That focus is what A Guide to Intermodal Transport in the United States is all about. Containers and trailers moving freight that has had a prior or subsequent move via railroad or steamship line.The author had over 50 years experience in freight transport prior to selling his trucking company. All of this is reflected in the Guide to Intermodal Transport.There are many aspects of the intermodal business. The book categorizes them “all” and provides their background and operational usage:Trucking and Intermodal: This Category takes in Markets, Safety, Pricing, Associations, Insurance, Drivers, Computers and Automation as well as providing Refe
Difficult to rate As someone wanting to learn about intermodal shipping I find this book hard to rate. Almost immediately it becomes very detailed and filled with industry terminology that is rarely explained. I'm not sure if it's a great book that I just don't understand, or if it's poorly written.The book layout starts with truck shipping, rail shipping, ocean shipping, equipmen. He describes not only the good parts of the industry This book is very dry to read. However, if you have any interest in the intermodal industry, the author is very complete in his descriptions. He describes not only the good parts of the industry, but also the day to day operations, the history to show how the industry has evolved, and the challenges associated with the day to day operations. In other words, if yo. Bemace said In SERIOUS need of copy editing. You should definitely try the sample before buying. This book is completely incomprehensible. The author seemingly can't even maintain his train of thought through an entire sentence. A sentence will start off ok, then he adds a comma, followed by some comment which doesn't even make sense grammatically, much less in the context of the sentence. In addition, he h