Data on the cost of highway freight per mile and per ton-mile are now available in the Financial and Operating Statistics (F&OS) maintained by the American Trucking Associations and the Blue Book of Trucking Companies maintained by Transportation Technical Services of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Skimming and Scanning. Your perceptions of any written text are deepened through familiarity. One of the most effective methods for beginning the kind of thoughtful reading necessary for academic work is to get a general overview of the text before beginning to read it in detail. By first skimming a text, you can get a sense of its overall logical progression.
Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols. In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language. Writing is not a language but a form of technology. Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols.