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Road's the Mode Author: Jennifer Haworth
Product Details: ISBN: 9781927167113 Format: Paperback Pages: 344 Dims (mm): 210 x 260 Pub Date: 01-06-13 Pub Country: New Zealand Condition: NEW
Description: Imagine a world where there's no truck at the door to move your possessions, where the supermarket shelves are empty because deliveries to the door have stopped, where there are no trucks to help in times of crisis. It's impossible for the modern society to function without road transport. The industry has, however, fought a long, hard battle to reduce overwhelming government control. From the 1930s all trucks needed a licence to operate; this meant that there were long legal battles to increase the size of any fleet. After World War II preference was given to returned servicemen and the local owner-driver served his own area and did not have the trucks or the right to carry goods beyond a 40 mile radius. Transport over longer distances was reserved for the railways. Gradually the exemptions were introduced and the distance goods could be carried against rail was extended until it was finally abolished in the 1980s. But until then trucking companies became very innovative in the way that they could get around these restrictions. After the industry was freed from many of the out of date regulations in the 1980s, including restrictive licensing, their focus turned to ways of making trucks safer and more efficient. The battle with the unions to improve pay is a crucial element in the story, as are the battles with the government for a fairer deal. Government and the industry worked together for safer roads. One of the worst problems - logging truck roll - was solved by the research undertaken by the industry. The development of the
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