| This is a very exciting time on the pages of the JB | | | | elemental quality that human beings have of |
| Transport blog. It is May and we all know what that | | | | transporting materials from place to place, is the |
| means… it means history! May has officially been | | | | quintessential bonding element in every variety of |
| declared history month here on the JB Transport | | | | freight transport, from every era and epoch. |
| blog. A couple of weeks ago we dipped into the | | | | Regardless of place, time, or class, people have been |
| deep and cool pools of history with our brief | | | | transporting goods forever. This observation is basic |
| overview of the trucking industry and the | | | | and simple, but it allows a unique perspective on the |
| progression and evolution of technology and policy | | | | nature of the freight transportation industry, and |
| that has impacted flatbed trucking companies and | | | | really, a lot of other industries as well. Taking this |
| freight transportation across the ages, ok, maybe | | | | perspective on the trucking industry lets us view it as |
| just throughout the century. This century has seen | | | | an ever shifting system with a stable and fixed spine |
| incredible change in the industry that sprung from a | | | | (that spine consisting of an elemental need driving the |
| simple need, to transport goods and freight from | | | | industry). In this way we can view the entire industry |
| place to place. Whether the goods be raw materials | | | | as a process of development and progression. The |
| or finished products, there has been a need for | | | | trucking industry, specifically, is an excellent place to |
| freight transportation for as long as people have | | | | track the changes and developments significant to |
| been in the business of being people, trading with | | | | the industry because of its stable core characteristics. |
| other communities, nations, or people. The earliest | | | | Regardless of the trappings, and trimmings, freight |
| freight transportation definitely looked nothing like | | | | transportation has remained consistent throughout |
| what we understand freight transportation to be | | | | time. With that understanding out of the way, we'll |
| today. There were certainly no motors, and, if we go | | | | look at some of the developments and changes that |
| back far enough, there were probably not even | | | | have impacted the industry over the years on the |
| wheels. | | | | next JB Transport blog. |
| The skeleton of freight transportation, that being the | | | | |