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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
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.
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated transportation industries in America and increased competition for logistics providers and shippers. [11] [13] C.H. Robinson created a contract carrier program, expanded its freight contract operations, and established itself as a middleman sourcing operation for shippable goods. [citation needed]
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.
A freight terminal is a processing node for freight. They may include airports , seaports , container ports , goods stations , railroad terminals and trucking terminals . As most freight terminals are located at ports, many cargo containers can be seen around the area.
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]