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Tilt Masters Ergonomic Pallet Trucks

Tilt Masters Ergonomic Pallet Trucks In smaller companies, every dollar counts when it comes to purchasing material handling supplies. In warehouses already at near capacity, where space is often very limited, a tilt master can safely maneuver where a fork truck cannot. Large pallets containing fragile materials can also easily be damaged when using generic pallet jacks that lack the hydraulic lift to properly elevate the supplies and move them from station to station or station to storage. Even more importantly, worker safety can be at risk in cramped quarters where laborers have to manually lift supplies, boxes, crates, and...

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Marketing in a Mobile Age: Trucks Add Fuel to Advertising

Marketing in a Mobile Age: Trucks Add Fuel to Advertising LAS VEGAS, NV –- June 1, 2006 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Mobile Ad Marketing Inc, a new Las Vegas company, offers the largest inventory of mobile advertising media in America, and a simple plan to make advertising more effective and affordable. Mobile Ad Marketing (MAM) believes that, as far as advertising goes, bigger is better. And, in the ad space business, a semi-trailer is about as big as it gets. “With over 300,000 trucks, buses and ad trailers in 300 markets and 48 states, we can reach and saturate any size...

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Toyota Trucks

Toyota Trucks You may have noticed that the truck market has become very hot lately. It seems that you don’t have to have construction type jobs to own a truck these days. In the past foreign trucks struggled with quality issues. Now a days all manufacturers have stepped up in quality and have produced their own profitable truck market segment. The Toyota Tundra was previously known as a light-weight duty truck, but since 2007, the Tundra has upped the heavy-duty competitive bar. Toyota has also started an aggressive branding of their tundra line to compete more aggressively with American car...

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Purchasing Trucks, Trains, and Toy Autos on EBay

Purchasing Trucks, Trains, and Toy Autos on EBay Before there was an Internet, there were only a few ways people could get rid of things like toy trains that they no longer wanted. They could sell them at a yard sale for a couple of dollars. They could take them to . They could place a for sale ad in the classified section of the newspaper. They could auction them at one of two types of live auctions; a high end auction which are held by internationally known firms, or a local auction where both the clientele and merchandise are...

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Respect Large Trucks, Stay Safe on the Road

Respect Large Trucks, Stay Safe on the Road Passenger vehicle operators – not truck drivers – cause approximately 70 percent of all fatal crashes involving a car and commercial truck, according to federal government statistics. Most accidents are the result of an unsafe driving act, such as following a truck too closely or lingering in its blind spot. The following precautions will help you safely share the road with large trucks: * Beware of blind spots. Approximately 35 percent of truck-related auto fatalities occur in a truck’s blind spots. Tractor trailers have very large blind spots -; as much as...

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Pickup Trucks And Safety

Pickup Trucks And Safety Recent news has the consumer population clamoring about whether or not the cars we drive are really safe. Forbes came out with an article on July 30, 2007 by Bengt Halvorson titled “Top 20 Most Dangerous Vehicles,” that uncovered some unnerving facts about pickup trucks in general. According to the article, “Pickups as a class have the highest rate of fatality and serious injury,” said Michael Dulberger, president of Informed for Life – a safety advocacy group. Sound familiar? A few years back, we heard the same complaint about SUVs. The uproar – and America’s reluctance...

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Pick Up Trucks: The Symbol Of Today’s Middle America

Pick Up Trucks: The Symbol Of Today’s Middle America Middle America geographically refers to the area of land between the east coast states and the west coast states, but the term is more often used as a cultural label rather than a geographical one. It tends to suggest a suburb or small town where most of the residents are middle class (households earning approximately between ,000 annually – considered lower middle class – and those earning up to about ,000 per year – upper middle class). The paradigm of “Middle America” often includes a highly Protestant, highly Caucasian concentration of...

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Wide Open Spaces – How To Share The Roads Peacefully With Trucks

Wide Open Spaces – How To Share The Roads Peacefully With Trucks On your local news program, you may hear stories about an “out of control” truck wiping out a car load of people or destroying property. The media sensationalizes the facts, often putting most of the blame with the truckers. However, many times that is not the case. For the most part, truckers are responsible drivers who are diligent about road safety. Not only are they making sure they adhere to the rules of the road, but they also have to keep an eye on the nincompoop drivers of...

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The Truth about Accidents Involving Semi Trucks

The Truth about Accidents Involving Semi Trucks We have all heard the commercials on TV for lawyers who claim they can get you thousands of dollars if you are involved in an accident with a semi truck. There are also plenty of news stories in the media highlighting crashes involving these large pieces of equipment. Yet statistics show the majority of accidents that involve a big truck are due to the negligence of other drivers, not those who are responsible for keeping eighteen wheels on the road. The sheer size of a semi truck often means that any accident it...

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Semi Trucks and Drug Trafficking

Semi Trucks and Drug Trafficking Drug dealers and smugglers use all forms of transportation in order go keep up with the supple and demand of this underground industry. Since semi trucks move all over the country, it is only practical to assume they are used for this purpose as well. Under the pretense of delivering actual goods, many trucks travel along the highways with drugs in the trailers. In these types of instances, the truck drivers are aware of what they are hauling. They often due it for the amount of money they can earn hauling it. In other instances,...

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