Freight Books

I found this book to be extremely helpful in explaining everything you need to get started in freight brokering. Gives excellent detailed instructions.

The book has a number of typos and grammatical errors. It says that information will be provided later in a section -- and that information is no where to be found. One section said the same thing in 3 different paragraphs. There is no real information given to somebody who is interested in becoming a freight broker or agent.

Flipping through this book reminds me of how embarrassing IAF's albums are. A typical skit of theirs is made up of one overstretched one-joke premise with a bland "message" tagged on to the very end. The delivery always had spaces that were the aural equivalent of a neon APPLAUSE signs to help along the usually humorless Bible-campers in their audience.

Such dumb "parodies" of tv as "Leave it to Squirley" are not interesting enough to hold the attention of adults who may know of "Leave it Beaver", but it will surely mystify the 9 or 10 year olds who are at IAF's level. This book kicks off with "Jerusalem Dragnet", which has unsettling similarities to a Stan Freiberg comedy album from the late 1950s--but without any internal jokes, wit, or puns. Undoubtedly IAF were inspired by the true geniuses of album sketch comedy, The Firesign Theater. But TFT's albums from the 1970s stand up to repeated listenings even for fairly young folk.

Skit comedy is a flogged horse nowadays, but IAF's gee-wiz "witnessing tools" were trite propaganda even back in the 1970s and '80s.

The material in this book is inspired by God. It takes simple biblical truths and humorously reveals them through drama. The only negative comment is that there will be no sequels.

The Internet is becoming a booming retail business. Anyone can have a website selling items from apricots to customized ziplock bags. To the untrained eye, it's quite seamless to log on and click the check-out icons. For the most part, many sites do not change their main design often. This might give the impression of a maintenance free operation. Okay, so you want to start your own site. Don't let these appearances fool you. Do your homework first, and gain knowledge from those who learned the hard way.

"The Little Website That Could" hauls all of the information you need to know about steering a virtual freight train, from the engine to the caboose. It begins to chug along with getting your business started as a corporation. The chapters of lessons learned along the way, tips about marketing with ezines, and suggestions for looking like a big corporation are the first few cars of the train. Information about search engines, ebooks, and affiliate programs fuel the other chapters and the dogs running by can't catch up with you. ...With a little determination, you too can have extraordinary success with your website.

Lynne Schlumpf describes her entire website experience in this book. She loves trains, and the moral of the story "The Little That Could" has always stuck with her. This book is a result of the success and failures from 8 years of researching internet marketing and operating her website Route 66 Cyber Café. I would recommend "The Little Website That Could" to all entrepreneurs who want to drive a successful internet freight train.

I wanted a book about Southern's development and selection of motive power for freight trains in the steam era, or at least the 1900-1953 era, with a good number of pictures. I had high hopes for this book. Unfortunately, it is mostly just a picture book.

Yes, it has some nice pictures, but it has very little real information. The specifications for each major locomotive type are repeated, almost verbatim, many times. I realize that there were minor variations, even within the same nominal class, but it would suffice to list the basics specifications once and then discuss the variations. There's very little in the way of history, development, operational characteristics, etc. Much of the text seems to be filler.

If you just want pictures of a several locomotives from most of the major Southern freight classes, buy it. But if you want detailed information or in-depth analysis, look elsewhere.

This is yet another book of train photos, by which I mean lots and lots of 3/4 (front/side) shots, emphasizing locos. The photos are clear, though somewhat monotonous in composition. Three stars from a reader who would have liked more artistic and varied compositions.
Five stars, however, for the photo captions. The author knows his stuff about the New York Central - e.g., why some pullmans were not on specific Sat. night trains, etc. In fact, I don't think I have ever read such interesting material about how that railroad operated.

I purchased this as a brand "new" item directly from Amazon thinking that I will do better buying a new item from reputable source instead of a used copy from someone else.
The quality of the copy I got was poor for the first CD, for the second one I thought it was a joke. Could it be that the introduction to Freight Brokerage business started with a Gospel song? No it wasn't a joke, the entire CD was a Gospel songs CD labeled as Freight Brokerage Business CD 1. So sure enough, someone made a mistake and labeled the CD incorrectly.

I tried to exchange it and get a better copy, but I couldn't find a phone number in the Amazon site to talk to someone and explain what I wanted to do. According to the site, if I wanted to exchange it I was responsible for sending it back and if they didn't get it, I could be charged twice. They will only provide a free of charge package for "returns". It was too much of a hassle to exchange and it was going to cost me money to do so. So I returned the product and got my money back.
One thing that I wanted to point out is that this is the first time I get a bad product from Amazon; I have purchased several items from them before and never had an issue.

The other review for this item appears to be for a book by the same or similar title and not these CDs. The CDs are excellent and answer a range of questions from what is a freight brokerage business to pricing services. There is a fair amount of basic business information on here but before you dismiss that as unneeded -- consider that most business fail not because of concept but because of basic business practices. Can't hurt to review the fundamentals.

This is a good overview for a buisness student. This book was not specific to Freight Brokerage, but general business start-up information for any business. The best advice I heard throughout the book was to go to work as an agent for a Freight Brokerage to learn about the business, plus some cautions that this is a fast paced, possibly high stress business environment. The free financial software did not work on my Windows Vista computer. The sample forms are useful if you are not familiar with accounting. There are resources at the end of the book for more information although I am not sure how valuable they are.

A bit boring read, but definitely a good resource if I ever need to refer to the book.

I ordered three books, one is arrived in two weeks, one still not arrived after three weeks, seems lost, and the international logistics seem not even shipped, because you did not charge me and told me this book is out of order, so I got the book from other book store. Regarding this book, I can not rate it. And I lost foreign currency exchange fee because of this book. So I am not planning to order any book from USA web page.

I read this book out of an immediate business need to get a general overview of the international logistics and supply chain industry. And this book certainly accomplished that. It is not a rigorous read as I went through it in its entirety (save for the chapter cases) in about 3 days.

The biggest complaint that I have about the book is its poor organization. Terms and concepts such as Ro/Ro, Customs Broker, Bill of Lading, and Banking are not explained before they are extensively referenced. For those that have some very basic understanding of import/export, some of these terms are not too much of a mystery, but such confusion could have completely been eliminated if only the book was better organized.

Also, perhaps it is a bias result from my specific reading needs, but I thought there were chapters of the book that could have been greatly simplified, combined, or eliminated, such as the first 3 chapters. At a minimum they could be moved to an Appendix section for reference.

There are also numerous spelling and grammatical errors, as well as some sections that are written in "spoken" English. English is not my mother tongue so for me to notice spelling and grammar errors really says something about the proof reading quality of this text.

overall not bad....but a person trying to start their own biz will need more info than found in this book.

Good for someone how is starting their own business, if you deal with your own company, is more of what already you do.

I purchased this book because I am interested in starting my own Freight Brokerage Business. In order to start your own brokerage company you "must" already know how to broker freight. What I am looking for is detailed information about where to start and everything that is needed to startup. This book just gives a "very simple" explanation about how you broker freight. This was a total waste of my money!!!! I have been in the trucking business for 21 yrs and have brokered freight for about 8 years so I already know in general what needs to be done. I need a book that is much much more informative about HOW TO START A FREIGHT BROKERAGE!!!

This book completely oversimplifies almost every aspect of brokering frieght. It has a few good tips, that's about it.

This is a great resource, however its value is limited because there is no answer key for the workbook. The publisher says that the only way to get the answers is to spend $104.95 on the instructors CD. This really should be stated up front before people buy this book and learn the hard way.

This book has some huge errors. The writting in this text seems as if a differant person wrote every paragraph. As an instructor, this is very frustrating. I've had many a student request the chance to string the writer up by the neck. For example, it asks to discribe a van body but has no discription of it in the book. Trust me, I've looked. It also displays insulated and petro tankers, and then proceeds to label them incorrectly. I beleive, either the writter is a little slow in the head, or the editor needs to find a new job. The first addition of this text had errors too, but the second edition only got worse. To bad for me, I haven't yet found another text book that covers this information to the degree needed in a classroom setting. Maybe next time the editor will be awake while he/she is working.

Humanity has overcome most of the bigger obstacles to intersteller travel by developing a powerful propulsion system and a system of gates that transports matter over an infinite distance. The gates are linked one to one so the only thing holding mankind back from exploring the galaxy is transporting the gates throughout space. On the initial journey humans accedentally run into an alien ship and damage it, puting in motion a chain of events that may destroy the Earth. All in all it seems like a lot of interesting ideas. Unfortunitly interesting ideas, on their own, do not make a good book. Busby, the author, buries his gems in a flood of verbous writing and shallow sexuality. I would estimate that 40% of the book is made up of uninteresting stories of the various chacater's sexual past. Even when the story shift view-points to the aliens, a great deal of that section is taken up by lengthy description of their sexual habits. None of this is interesting. A good basic story is so sidetracked by the writer's obsession on sex that the book just isn't worth the time you put into it. This is the first time I've read a book and actually thought "were was the editor?". A terrible 310 page book may have been condensed down to a pretty good and focused 150 pages.