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Are you paying attention to the latest news in the trucking industry? Are you utilizing the tools on your load board to help you set a more competitive rate? Or maybe you are an independent motor carrier and want to dispatch your own truck? This guide was created for the purpose of teaching people how to dispatch a dry van, refrigerated, or flatbed truck. There is so much more to dispatching than calling up a few brokers and negotiating a rate. It...
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Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.
Once we were drivers on the open road.
Today we are more often in the back seat of an Uber.
As we hurtle toward a 'self-driving' future, are we destined to become passengers in our own lives too?
In Why We Drive, the philosopher and mechanic Matthew Crawford celebrates...
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A pictorial history of buses and coaches of the period, drawn from a British transport photographer's vast collection.
British Buses and Coaches in the 1960s is an overview of the bus and coach scene during a decade of great social and economic change in Britain's history. This volume looks at the interesting and varied number of bus and coach operators that still existed, before and just after the formation of the National Bus Company in 1968.
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In GM LS-Series Engines: The Complete Swap Manual, expert Joseph Potak walks you through all the steps involved in installing an LS engine into any vehicle, from concept to completion. Variants of GM's groundbreaking family of LS engines are installed in everything from the company's most mundane panel vans to its earth-shaking Corvette ZR1. First underhood in the 1997 Corvette, the LS1, and its successors have proven powerful, reliable, and amazingly...
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A history of America's greatest motocar, with picture galleries of every year. Also many other galleries; celebrity cars, advertisements from back in the day, pictures of the founders, showroom brochures, and some bonus pictures of Cord and Auburn cars. 575 pages of automotive history.
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(From the Foreword) Graham-Paige Motors Corporation lives again in the pages of the The Graham Legacy: Graham-Paige to 1932. Michael E. Keller's factual account is based upon his thorough research, giving a clear picture of the formation and operations of this former Dearborn, Michigan, automaker. Keller addresses the myriad of Graham others' trucks, Paige, Graham-Paige and Graham automobile types and provides a full recounting of these vehicles'...
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Ross Bentley. Race teams have discovered great benefits can be derived from "tuning" their driver to perform at his/her full potential. Thus, this book is for everyone who works with a driver: engineers, crew chiefs, team owners, mechanics, and the driver's parents. This unique book instructs the driver's support team how to prepare and communicate with the driver so the driver delivers the best performance in races, practice sessions, and off-track...
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Engines are built to fall within a wide set of standards and specifications, often not optimized to meet the original design. In short, cheap and fast engine production results in a sloppy final product. Of course, this is not idea for high-performance engines. To maximize the performance of any engine, it must be balanced and blueprinted to the exact tolerances that the factory should have adhered to in the first place. Four cylinder, V-8, American...
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If you have an interest in dockside vehicles then this is the book for you.
Complete with photographs, Dún Laoghaire Dockside Vehicles 1976—1996 is split into two categories: tugmasters and small dockside vehicles. Packed with information on different vehicles, the reader will learn all kinds of information relating to technical details, driving positions, physical changes to the vehicles over the years and more.
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Co-authors of Imagine That, Don and Nikki celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2009. Together, through a unique combination of corporate merger, corporate sponsorships and their close relationship with persons of influence, they were placed in a position, which afforded them both the timely, once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a period of rapid growth in the Sport of Auto Racing. Their story covers a broad spectrum of some little known events....
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Shave lap times or find a faster line through your favorite set of S-curves with professional race driver Ross Bentley as he shows you the quickest line from apex to apex! With tips and commentary from current race drivers, Bentley covers the vital techniques of speed, from visualizing lines to interpreting tire temps to put you in front of the pack. Includes discussion of practice techniques, chassis set-up, and working with your pit chief.
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Grounded in real-life stories, Art Collecting Today is the essential practical guide to today's art market. A lightly regulated industry with more than sixty billion dollars of annual sales, the art market is often opaque and confusing to even the most experienced collectors. But whether a seasoned collector, an uninitiated newcomer, or an art-world insider, readers will learn within these pages how the art marketplace works in practice and how to...
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This book records the buying, restoring, maintenance and running of 20 interesting, unusual, rare or eccentric cars that the author has owned in the last 25 years. Each car has a been a love affair in its own right and in consequence, like true love, they have not always run smoothly
15) Leyland Comet
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This book is about one of Leyland Motors' famous models, the Leyland Comet. It covers the period from the introduction of the lorry in 1947 to its withdrawal from the British market in the mid-1970s. This illustrious name continued to be used in the Leyland-DAF era, such is the high regard and respect earned by one of Leyland's finest vehicles not only here, but also overseas. Leyland Comet presents the initial development of the model and the various...
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With savage humor, Death Confetti features performance artist Jennifer Robin's autobiographical sketches of Portland, Oregon, from the grunge-era obscurity of the '90s to its current media-darling status. As an only child raised by reclusive grandparents in upstate New York, Jennifer recalls that she felt "anemic for the real." At seventeen she broke loose and made her way to the west coast. "Civilization is a nightmare-illusion," Jennifer writes,...
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To succeed in any form of racing, a driver must be more than fast. In today's ultra-competitive motorsports scene, where there's competition for financial support as well as for checkered flags, a racer must have a full complement of on-and off-track skills. To become a champion, a driver must augment his or her racing, testing, and physical skills with traits and skills such as mental toughness, marketing savvy, and career-building abilities. Speed...
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Defensive Driving Guide for Teens is created with the young driver in mind, perhaps just acquiring their learners permit or first-time driver's license. It is meant to address issues that are not covered in the state-issued driver study guide, to instill defensive driving techniques that are ordinarily learned over time, with experience. It is meant to STOP wrecks, STOP personal injury and lifelong debilitation, STOP lawsuits in regard to liable death...
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This book gives the reader a rare peak into the world of driving an 18 wheeler across country. The author, a retired State Investigator, goes on a nine month journey and chronicles his experiences of driving a big rig. The book includes the authors experiences, the mistakes he made, recommendations to help new drivers and observations about the industry in general. The information in this book would be extremely helpful to anyone who may be consider...
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