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A plaque found in RTS made after the 1980s, featuring the TMC logo and the acronym "RTS" A 1994 TMC RTS bus still in service in 2016 for Lewis & Clark College, in Portland, Oregon. Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (TMC) was a bus manufacturer based in Roswell, New Mexico.
TCMX - Transportation Company of America; TCRT - Twin City Rapid Transit Company; TCRY - Tri-City Railroad; TCStL - Toledo, Cincinnati and St Louis Railroad; TCSX - Tank Car Services, Inc. TCSZ - Triple Crown Service; TCT - Texas City Terminal Railway; TCWR - Twin Cities and Western Railroad; TCX - General American Transportation Corporation
Transportation Materiel Command, a unit of the United States Army until 1962; Trapeziometacarpal joint, a joint in the thumb; Tmcft (TMC, tmc) (thousand million cubic feet), a volume measurement of water; Run TMC, a high-scoring trio of teammates in the National Basketball Association from 1989 to 1991
The Standard Carrier Alpha Code, a two-to-four letter identification, is used by the transportation industry to identify freight carriers in computer systems and shipping documents such as Bill of Lading, Freight Bill, Packing List, and Purchase Order.
A common property-carrying commercial vehicle in the United States is the tractor-trailer, also known as an "18-wheeler" or "semi".. The trucking industry serves the American economy by transporting large quantities of raw materials, works in process, and finished goods over land—typically from manufacturing plants to retail distribution centers.
Consolidated Freightways was founded on April 1, 1929 by Leland James in Portland, Oregon.Originally a single truck LTL operation, in the early days James combined four local short-haul carriers in the Portland area into a single carrier.
Trucking is frequently used to connect the "linehaul" ocean and rail segments of a global intermodal freight movement. This specialized trucking that runs between ocean ports, rail terminals, and inland shipping docks, is often called drayage, and is typically provided by dedicated drayage companies or by the railroads. [16]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry in the United States. The primary mission of the FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.