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Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilizationOn ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not work.Freight...
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[2006]
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McPhee begins his adventure riding with Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of an 18-wheeler hauling nearly 30 tons of highly toxic chemicals from North Carolina to Washington. He continues his journey on a towboat pushing over 1,000 feet of barge up the narrow channel of the Illinois River. He rounds out his account crawling through Nebraska, Kansas, and the Powder River Basin of Wyoming in massive coal trains. Along the way, he tells the stories of...
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c2010
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Jane Albright, a newly widowed mother of one child who is pregnant with another, is forced to deal with Franklin Lloyd, a greedy moneylender, by hauling freight all the way to Deadwood, South Dakota, to keep her freighting business alive, and as she works to salvage her family's future, she slowly earns Lloyd's admiration.
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[2017]
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"With 70 percent of all manufactured and retail goods transported by truck in the U.S., it's the perfect time to broker your own share of this $700 billion transportation industry. Learn to apply your time management and communication skills as you pair shippers and carriers to move cargo and make money in the process--straight from your home. The experts of Entrepreneur equip you with the knowledge you need to start your own business, manage day-to-day...
5) Cargo ships
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c1999
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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This book presents the history, parts, uses, and types of cargo ships, which transport goods around the world by sea.
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2022.
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"There was a new freighting company in Nebraska City. Ajax Overland, owned by Trace Bovard, seemed to be gradually drawing a noose around the neck of the freighting business, reaching out to absorb all the other companies, trying to buy them out, trying to force them out. Bovard had a plan. He could underbid contracts and overpay teamsters until his was the only company left. Then he could make the money back quickly by cutting wages and raising prices...
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2023.
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"Former Texas Ranger Clay Orde was looking for a man. There was only one thing on his mind -- revenge. He'd been following a cold trail from Oregon to Nevada, but his experience as a ranger and what he had learned about Silver Jack Devaney assured him that he was going in the right direction. Fate intervenes when he thwarts a freight train robbery and becomes acquainted with Milly Ewell. Milly Ewell runs a mule freighting business she inherited when...