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...Carmen and her friends are partying inside a moving semi-trailer running contraband....
...“It’s not my first rodeo,” the 41-year-old British-American actress acknowledges. “I can’t believe I find this so hard.”...
...There are refrigerated freight trucks (known as “reefers”); flatbed trucks carrying lumber and steel (“flatbedders”); and tanker trucks (“tanker yankers”)....
...As we approach, the road begins to clog with horse trailers. Campesinos, ranch matriarchs, child rodeo stars are brushing moustaches, manes and hooves with gusto....
...Trucks are set to join oil tankers and dry-bulk ships as tradable commodities, as a US-based exchange launches the world’s first futures contracts based on the price of hiring a vehicle....
...From the trailer, it is clear the series is not going to try to be a judicious assessment of the pros and cons of nuclear power....
...The interior is festooned with decades’ worth of memorabilia, from neon Budweiser signs and a rodeo saddle to pictures of White with Dolly Parton and a yellowing “No Checks” sign....
...I imagined a petrol tanker dipping its lights at the mouth of some nameless turn-off,and trailers tilting with cigarettes and guns, and cash changing hands in the country dark beyondthe tarred roads we...
...Movements of containers and truck trailers — together known as intermodal traffic, which is counted separately — were 4.8 per cent up....
...The El Faro left Jacksonville last Tuesday, according to Tote Maritime, the vessel’s owners, and was carrying 391 containers and 294 trailers and cars bound for Puerto Rico....
...Such intermodal traffic – movements of goods in shipping containers and truck trailers – provides the basis for much of railroad executives’ long-term optimism about the industry’s prospects....
...It was to be created inside a gigantic warehouse at the museum, and include a trailer home, an oil tanker and shipping containers, plus parts of an old cinema....
...In spite of images of smoke billowing from blazing and charred trailers, US officials say only about one per cent of the 16,000-20,000 trucks carrying Nato goods via Pakistan each month are lost to attacks...
...Legroom might be no greater than in the A4 but is more than adequate for even the loftiest rear-seat passengers, as a 6ft 5in son will attest after a 200-mile trip to an Alberta small-town rodeo....
...“We’re always looking up at the mountains, to see where they might start shooting at us,” said Amin, a veteran trucker waiting in a queue of ramshackle trailers emblazoned with images of and fruit trees...
...Growth in world trade and the collapse of the rule of law in states such as Somalia have seen a dramatic rise in attacks on shipping since 2000: earlier this week a Russian oil tanker was hijacked off the...
...the world’s largest operator of product tankers....
...The figure for a truck with a trailer is 50g, while a container ship produces 8g and a bulk carrier full of coal or iron ore 3g....
...On April 26, 1956, the SS Ideal-X, an ageing tanker, departed from the Port of Newark, and docked in the Port of Houston five days later....
...Get your timing right and small towns such as Bentley and Benalto offer up their rodeos, where youngsters rope calves like veterans....
...When you burn oil, the tanker leaves and then the pump and boiler do the work; but with wood, the tractor and trailer leaves and then you do the work....
...Fifteen workers in two trailers next to the tower died and 170 others were injured....
...His organisation helped co-ordinate the arrival of 350 trailers of supplies, one-third from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the remaining two thirds from faith-based groups....
...There are trucks of every description: flatbed trucks from France; heavy-goods vehicles from Germany; tankers from Italy and Austria; and even eastern Europe's characteristic models....
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