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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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MIT Press
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�2008
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In 'Fighting Traffic', Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change, but also a social one - before the city could be restructured for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as a place where motorists belonged.
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CarTech Inc
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2013
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Author Steve Magnante is well known for his encyclopedia-like knowledge of automotive facts. There are 1001 well-researched muscle car facts in this book that even the most esteemed experts would be surprised to learn. Fans of these collectible cars will appreciate the technical and entertaining information shared on every page about all of the great American makes.
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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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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c2010
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This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They're well suited for conveying multiple passengers over long distances at high speeds, but inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities- where most of the world's people now live....
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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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A step by step guide for all road users, drivers, passengers and pedestrians. It is also important for all drivers and passengers to bear in mind that in other to complete a trip we often become pedestrians. To reduce road accidents and stay alive, we all have to avoid distracting the driver for distraction via palmtop computer is the main cause of vehicle road related accidents.
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Like any giant enterprise, the NASCAR we see today is very different from the regional race series launched by a visionary Bill France in the late 1940s. Few writers are as intimately aware of that history as Car and Driver's Brock Yates. In the 1950s he recalls the intimate nature of the sport's early years, when he would see the entire Petty family working together, Richard wrenching on the car while his father cooked for the family on a bar-b-que...
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Discover the secrets that will make you a faster and more successful racecar driver with this up-to-date insight into the latest techniques in racing. Professional driver and driving coach Ross Bentley, reveals what it takes to be fast and win races at the highest levels. Chock full of diagrams and concise "speed secrets," Bentley has created an all-new approach to learning and perfecting the ideal line around the racetrack. He teaches you how to...
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The Conscious Driver can most likely be read in an hour and construed as an initial training. Immediate improvement is noticed if the mind is open and willing. Sustained skills advancement is guaranteed if the ideas and exercises contained within are incorporated and practiced. Driving While Distracted (DWD) can be virtually eliminated and one's driving will contribute in a most positive way to public safety and the reduction of accidents. By applying...
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This fascinating handbook answers the questions of anyone who has ever wondered about the many strange devices found along the roadside, from utility poles to satellite dishes. Devices are grouped according to their habitats along highways and roads, atop buildings, near airports, and on utility towers. More than 150 different roadside technologies are covered, and each detailed entry describes what the device does, how it works, and includes a photograph...
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Performance modification on enthusiast cars and trucks entails the modification of many systems in concert with each other. Induction systems, exhaust, rotating assemblies, cylinder head modification, all areas where modifications yield exciting and measurable results. While decidedly not as sexy to most, ignition systems are just as important as all of the other systems, and modifying your ignition system is vital in extracting all the performance...
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