Looking for a blue-collar career with job growth and earning potential? Warehousing and distribution might be your answer.
The world of ground express deliveries is a multibillion dollar industry and growing. The basic requirements? Driving well and getting packages intact to eagerly waiting consumers.
Trucks vary in size and weight, and the type of route you take can mean a world of difference, too. What type of trucking situation is right for you?
The transportation studies field is expanding to include aspects of management, public relations, finance, marketing and almost any other business angle you can think of.
- Last week's column focused on how policies of the Obama administration are likely to affect airlines and the travel business. I didn't have room to say all I wanted to about what may be the most striking change in store in the transport arena: how Amtrak and other passenger-rail service will be treated by the White House.
- A US Airways Express flight with 38 people aboard touched down without its front landing gear yesterday morning at Philadelphia International Airport. There were no injuries.
- PITTSBURGH - Many sports-crazed fans who don't want to deal with traffic must walk or take the bus over the bridges of the Allegheny River to watch their Steelers or Pirates.
- Thaddeus Robinson rolled his wheelchair off SEPTA's new railcar, grinning. "It's much better than the old cars," said Robinson, of West Philadelphia, after a brief tour of the Silverliner V prototype that went on display yesterday at Suburban Station. "It's much easier to get on and off. The hardest thing on the trains now is getting in and making that side turn. This is perfect."
- As high gas prices drive new riders to SEPTA's trains in record numbers, the transit agency is learning to be careful of what it wishes for. Growing ridership is straining SEPTA's ability to keep up with demand.
- Commuter traffic rose Monday on the Tacony-Palmyra and Burlington-Bristol Bridges and dropped on the four Delaware River Port Authority bridges, apparently the result of drivers' looking for a bargain.
- US Airways Group Inc. ranked third among major airlines in on-time arrivals and baggage handling in August, a big improvement from recent years.
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