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Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Michigan Trucking Today
Author: Examining Current Conditions in the Trucking Industry and the Possible Necessity for Change in the Manner and Scope of Its Regulations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Trucking
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Michigan Trucking Today
Author: Impact of Truck Overloads on the Highway Trust Fund
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on OversightPublisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Sweatshops on Wheels
Author: Michael H. BelzerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195128864
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time during the last four decades. Written by a former long-haul trucker who now teaches industrial relations at Wayne State University, Sweatshops on Wheels raises crucial questions about the legacy of trucking deregulation in America and casts provocative new light on the issue of government deregulation in general.
Truck Accident Litigation
Author: Laura Ruhl GensonPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590317600
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Written by industry professionals, engineers, reconstructionists, and litigators experienced in the trucking field, this comprehensive guidebook provides a strong knowledge base of the trucking industry and serves as a how to for handling a commercial motor vehicle case from intake to trial. The book covers: the lawyer's role in a truck accident investigation; data collection, site, vehicle, and electronic evidence; spoliation of evidence; driving situations (weather conditions, hazardous materials, human factors); on-board electronics; tires, wheels and brakes; technology (what exists, how to use it, and admissibility in court); the plaintiff and defense perspectives; changes from the engineering perspective with respect to engine configuration, speed, and more; and the trial.
Michigan Railway Company
Author: Norman L. KrentelPublisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609177673
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Michigan Railway Company: The Northern and Southern Divisions, the first comprehensive history of the Michigan United Railway Company, traces the rise and fall of Michigan’s most significant electric railway. This volume covers the company’s founding in local rail-based public transportation systems in Lansing, Jackson, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, and Owosso-Corunna and ends with its eventual demise, abandoned prior to the stock market crash of 1929. Norman L. Krentel follows the fragments of lines in lower Michigan, which came together to form the MUR. He examines the interurban lines, which were broken down into five divisions, each with a separate superintendent. These divisions were Northern and Southern, which had formerly been Michigan United Railways; Northwestern, which had been Grand Rapids, Holland, and Chicago Railway; Western; and Northeastern. This also explores how electric railway history is intertwined with the state of Michigan. The interurban electric rail system supported automobile manufacturing, allowing for the shipment of parts supplies, and finished automobiles through Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Major auto plants like REO and Oldsmobile had rail sidetracks served by Michigan Railway’s interurban freight trains. Electric railway history is thus an essential, previously overlooked factor in Michigan’s industrial development.
Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
Author: Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933. Hearings ... on H.R. 5500 ... May 8-22, 1933
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Transportation Planning and Priorities for the Seventies, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation of ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description