Post by Alan on Apr 6, 2015 11:06:10 GMT -6
So i've been doing a lot of papers for finals and stuff lately and i thought this would be kind of cool because a lot of us on here are in HS or almost to HS and it's always good to have feedback from others on stuff like this.
This is for my history class and they let us pick our subject.....(of course i picked trucking
)
Sorry i couldn't figure out how to put it into a spoiler...
Still have a lot to revise.....(no fs for me) lol
Alan L. Polly
Mr. Jacob Clements
English 10 B
18 February 2015
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Great start. The biggest issue in this paper is the research aspect. You need to have at least 5 articles from the databases available to us on Connexus to back up your ideas. The next biggest issue is avoiding those repeated sentence patterns in your paragraphs, and avoiding using first (I and me) and second (you) in your paper. You need to meet the 4 page minimum for this paper, but if you come up with the articles I mentioned, and use each one in your paper, you will be able to reach that minimum without any problem.
The History of Trucking
The Trucking Industry: what a subject. The trucking industry is an enormous part of the American way of life. Many people don’t understand how important truck drivers are and how expensive the loads are that they carry. They can carry 22 pallets, each pallet holding 48 boxes, each box filled with 10 iPhones a box. Some simple math: 48 boxes with 10 iPhones each – 480 IPhones – 480 phones * $300 = $144000 for one pallet of phones. This is just an example don’t hold me to the math but the cargo they haul is expensive and what they haul many people buy and if they didn’t haul these items the chances are people wouldn’t have phones or laptops and so on.
How often do you pass a truck when you’re on the highway? Most of those trucks you see on the highway come from big companies like Swift Transportation. Swift has bought out many other companies including one in Mexico and many in the U.S. By December 31, 2009 Swift owned 12,300 tractors (the cab, truck) 3,900 owner operators (I’ll explain this term next) 48,600 trailers (what the cargo is hauled in or on) and 4,500 intermodal containers (the ones you see on trains and ships). In total they had 16,200 tractors and 53,100 trailers. That is a huge company and that company plays a big role in Wal-Mart’s shipping along with another company called Crete and Shaffer. That is just to give an idea of how important the trucking industry is.
How has the trucking industry changed the U.S.? Before the invention of automobiles most things were moved by horse drawn carts or by rail. Around the time of World War I trucks were used by the military which increased the construction of paved roads in the U.S. and the trucking industry began to build around the 1930’s and 40’s. Around that time the government got hold of regulations for the small growing industry. The government began by limiting hours of driving. By the time the 50’s and 60’s came the trucking industry boomed along with the production of the highway system. Then the 60’s and 70’s where trucking gained a lot of attention when songs and movies came out about the trucking life like “Smokey and the Bandit” and “White Line Fever.” And in ’73-’79 the government had to drastically cut regulations for truckers because all truckers were going on strike because of the rising fuel prices.
Around the time of the recession the demand for truck drivers was masked over because people didn’t have the money to buy as many goods, builders didn’t need to ship as much, and so on. So this masked the shortage of truck drivers until now. The economy has rebuilt and stabilized itself but the driver shortage never fully went away. The shortage may seem small as of now but come the next few years if the government doesn’t change some regulations or lower fuel costs somehow the shortage is going to be worse. Right now they are short on decent drivers because many of the old timers who know how to behave and drive a truck are either passing away or they are retiring. Above I mentioned “Owner Operators” O/O (owner operators) are people who own their truck and lease themselves to a company or they own their own truck and trailer and find loads online. O/O have hit a road block in the last few years because of how much fuel costs and how much money it takes just to make pay check to paycheck anymore. So with that the O/O are quitting and selling their trucks and working for a big company to try and make it anywhere in the world. If something doesn’t change whether it is they change regulations or they change the legal age to obtain a CDL “Commercial Driver’s License” then the government is going to have more problems than they do now.
In the end something has to be done about the rising fuel costs or some regulations need to be changed to save the American way of life. The trucking industry holds the “Last Great American Cowboys” known to man. I find this to be very inspirational and I hope some of you do to. The thought of the open road and no one to tell you how to live your life is part of what America stands for if you think about it. So the next time you see a truck driver or pass one on the interstate don’t flip him off for going to slow or don’t look down on them as if they are lower than you, Give them a wave maybe even a smile or strike up a conversation with them in the truck stop on your way to your next vacation spot.
This is for my history class and they let us pick our subject.....(of course i picked trucking
)Sorry i couldn't figure out how to put it into a spoiler...
Still have a lot to revise.....(no fs for me) lol
Alan L. Polly
Mr. Jacob Clements
English 10 B
18 February 2015
|||||He wrote this after he graded it|||||
Great start. The biggest issue in this paper is the research aspect. You need to have at least 5 articles from the databases available to us on Connexus to back up your ideas. The next biggest issue is avoiding those repeated sentence patterns in your paragraphs, and avoiding using first (I and me) and second (you) in your paper. You need to meet the 4 page minimum for this paper, but if you come up with the articles I mentioned, and use each one in your paper, you will be able to reach that minimum without any problem.
The History of Trucking
The Trucking Industry: what a subject. The trucking industry is an enormous part of the American way of life. Many people don’t understand how important truck drivers are and how expensive the loads are that they carry. They can carry 22 pallets, each pallet holding 48 boxes, each box filled with 10 iPhones a box. Some simple math: 48 boxes with 10 iPhones each – 480 IPhones – 480 phones * $300 = $144000 for one pallet of phones. This is just an example don’t hold me to the math but the cargo they haul is expensive and what they haul many people buy and if they didn’t haul these items the chances are people wouldn’t have phones or laptops and so on.
How often do you pass a truck when you’re on the highway? Most of those trucks you see on the highway come from big companies like Swift Transportation. Swift has bought out many other companies including one in Mexico and many in the U.S. By December 31, 2009 Swift owned 12,300 tractors (the cab, truck) 3,900 owner operators (I’ll explain this term next) 48,600 trailers (what the cargo is hauled in or on) and 4,500 intermodal containers (the ones you see on trains and ships). In total they had 16,200 tractors and 53,100 trailers. That is a huge company and that company plays a big role in Wal-Mart’s shipping along with another company called Crete and Shaffer. That is just to give an idea of how important the trucking industry is.
How has the trucking industry changed the U.S.? Before the invention of automobiles most things were moved by horse drawn carts or by rail. Around the time of World War I trucks were used by the military which increased the construction of paved roads in the U.S. and the trucking industry began to build around the 1930’s and 40’s. Around that time the government got hold of regulations for the small growing industry. The government began by limiting hours of driving. By the time the 50’s and 60’s came the trucking industry boomed along with the production of the highway system. Then the 60’s and 70’s where trucking gained a lot of attention when songs and movies came out about the trucking life like “Smokey and the Bandit” and “White Line Fever.” And in ’73-’79 the government had to drastically cut regulations for truckers because all truckers were going on strike because of the rising fuel prices.
Around the time of the recession the demand for truck drivers was masked over because people didn’t have the money to buy as many goods, builders didn’t need to ship as much, and so on. So this masked the shortage of truck drivers until now. The economy has rebuilt and stabilized itself but the driver shortage never fully went away. The shortage may seem small as of now but come the next few years if the government doesn’t change some regulations or lower fuel costs somehow the shortage is going to be worse. Right now they are short on decent drivers because many of the old timers who know how to behave and drive a truck are either passing away or they are retiring. Above I mentioned “Owner Operators” O/O (owner operators) are people who own their truck and lease themselves to a company or they own their own truck and trailer and find loads online. O/O have hit a road block in the last few years because of how much fuel costs and how much money it takes just to make pay check to paycheck anymore. So with that the O/O are quitting and selling their trucks and working for a big company to try and make it anywhere in the world. If something doesn’t change whether it is they change regulations or they change the legal age to obtain a CDL “Commercial Driver’s License” then the government is going to have more problems than they do now.
In the end something has to be done about the rising fuel costs or some regulations need to be changed to save the American way of life. The trucking industry holds the “Last Great American Cowboys” known to man. I find this to be very inspirational and I hope some of you do to. The thought of the open road and no one to tell you how to live your life is part of what America stands for if you think about it. So the next time you see a truck driver or pass one on the interstate don’t flip him off for going to slow or don’t look down on them as if they are lower than you, Give them a wave maybe even a smile or strike up a conversation with them in the truck stop on your way to your next vacation spot.
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We had about four weeks to do the research, write a rough draft, peer review, and write a final draft with a few other steps in between. Basically, we wrote an English major Junior year college level paper in our Junior English class in High School. Sorry if it sounds like I'm steaming, but that's just my opinion of high school papers.