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To: Leisler
The containers are hauled to the customers warehouse for unloading. They are not unloaded at the port.

Perhaps the single most numerous small business enterprise is container drayer. Individuals buy a tractor and then hire themselves out as independant contractors to container drayage companies. They haul the shipping containers back and forth from the port to virtually every point in the USA.

Sometimes they own more than one or two tractors and hire someone to drive the second. It is the most basic of businesses, one person, one piece of equipment very tightly focused on a market clamoring for folks to do the work.

42 posted on 06/11/2003 11:52:41 AM PDT by bert (Don't Panic!)
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To: bert
Interesting. Didn't know that.

I heard of a basic economics lession in the futility of planning. It was, "List all the people needed to make a commonm pencil." If you are honest, the list never ends.
119 posted on 06/11/2003 2:54:33 PM PDT by Leisler
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